10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMOURLESSNESS»
Discover the use of
humourlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
humourlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lishman's Organic Psychiatry: A Textbook of Neuropsychiatry
Particularly striking differences were seen with humourlessness, circumstantiality,
dependence, sense of personal destiny and preoccupation with philosophical
concerns. The profiles of traits tended to differ according to the hemisphere ...
Anthony David, Simon Fleminger, Michael Kopelman, 2012
2
Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business:
All other women are condemned to humourlessness, a sad fate in the Hitchens
universe, wherein “wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.” Perhaps
Hitchens was being refreshingly politically incorrect; perhaps he was articulating
...
John Turner Humor is warm, wit cold, Wit can be a common scold, But humor can
laugh and do no harm: For wit is cold and humor warm (Witter Bynner; 'O For a
Witless Age')1 Accusations of humourlessness have always dogged Lawrence, ...
Paul Eggert, John Worthen, 2009
4
French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier
2 The Question of Humourlessness (Rousseau, Sade, God, and Brisset) i~V\~Te
are not amused' is the celebrated squelch attributed to VV Queen Victoria. Not
being amused can clearly, as here, be wilful, or, elsewhere, involuntary. I am fully
...
5
Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema
... to isolated 'offensive' comments, the producers use precisely this same strategy
of isolation to ward off deeper, more holistic readings of the film's overall
structural poetics.18 Allegations of prudishness, humourlessness, lack of
imagination, ...
6
Special Illumination: The Sufi Use of Humour
I recently came across a 'justification' for humourlessness in religion from a
distinguished prelate who expects his audience to be so obtuse that they will
believe that Christianity should be approached with misery merely because there
is “no ...
7
Places: Identity, Image and Reputation
... willingly hire, but don't especially covet as friends. People want to be friends
with the Italians, the Brazilians, the Canadians and especially the Australians, but
not the Swiss. Perhaps it's that reputation for discretion and humourlessness ...
... the original aphorism 'to live like God in France', a common German aphorism
which means 'I love it here', by substituting Frank-furt for Frankreich.27 (The
editors of the Collected Works of Bismarck, with perfect German humourlessness,
...
9
Gimme Danger: The Story of Iggy Pop
His humourlessness about the biggest artjest of the 20th century betrayed the fact
that he was no kid, but a 30-year-old man with 10 years of recording, drugging,
fucking and gigging behind him. He betrayed his mindset when he looked at ...
10
Northrop Frye on Modern Culture
An attempt to convey, by means of an easy-going historical jog-trot, the distinctive
characteristics of Scottish culture, and to discover what sort of reality underlies
the ready-made stereotypes of thrift, dourness, humourlessness, ambition, ...
Northrop Frye, Jan Gorak, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUMOURLESSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
humourlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
Can Dostoevsky be funny?
Perversely perhaps, it's the humourlessness of Dostoevsky's characters, such as the truculent Alexei Ivanovich and the passionately ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa - book review …
It's depressing in its humourlessness, in its sneering lack of respect for every creator or consumer aged under 70, and – ironically – in its lazy ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Is True Detective really a masterpiece of our time?
... though Emily Nussbaum in the New Yorker was dismayed both by its humourlessness and by a basic misogyny that treated women either as ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
The enigma of Kanye West – and how the world's biggest pop star …
That's likely due to his humourlessness. Though Kim is widely perceived as a beautiful airhead, he defends her as a brilliant business mind and ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Jurassic World Review: A Rex-Sized Roar, But Not a Clever Girl
Chris Pratt, as velociraptor trainer and nominal hero Owen Grady, seems notably constrained by the buff and manly humourlessness of his ... «Gizmodo UK, Jun 15»
Philip Marchand: The function of humour
(Though adversity, we must all agree, is no excuse for humourlessness.) The function of humour may not be so much to hold the edges of life ... «National Post, Jun 15»
The New Fifty Shades Of Grey Book: An Exclusive Extract (Maybe)
There's something about her wittering immaturity, her pouting humourlessness, and her pathetically low self-esteem that I find deeply alluring. «malaysiandigest.com, Jun 15»
That's Men: A postcard from my grandfather's confident dreams
... to be reared by two relatives in Caragh, whose humourlessness was so deep it was still being remarked on 100 years later in the family. «Irish Times, Jun 15»
Spare Rib: the top 10 reads from the archives
And if you find that dispiriting, sadder still is how the all the slurs lobbed at the second-wave – humourlessness and man-hating, in an endless ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Lee Nelson review – suited, booted and peddling sexist gags
... you can set your watch by the references that follow to the war, and to the Germans' supposed humourlessness. The punchline to the show's ... «The Guardian, May 15»
