Sentence examples for lacking in humour from inspiring English sources

Harassment is mean and lacking in humour.

He was accused not just at home but also abroad for lacking in humour.

He also thought it lacking in humour, but seemed to enjoy her drawing on "heroic stereotypes from Achilles through to Christ".

I say attempt, because the most remarkable thing about it is not the shock factor of its content, but how utterly dull and lacking in humour it is.

What the first episode lacks in humour it makes up for in intrigue, with a mystery around Mike and Susan's relationship and a satisfying number of unexpected plot twists.

A sort of cross between Soviet anthems and hippie poetry, these utopian hymns make up in hubris what they lack in humour.

Music also panned the lyrics for "almost totally lacking in shock value, humour or insight", but praised the production, writing that "musically, this is probably the greatest major label hip-hop album of recent years – a near faultless succession of hi-tech beats and ominously catchy hooks".

The jokes were few and far between and distinctly lacking in any sort of humour.

It was a clever piece of programming by UK Horizons to schedule a repeat of a 1997 documentary about real footballers' wives just as ITV's drama about fictional players' wives reaches its ridiculous climax; particularly as the documentary included an element lacking in the drama, namely humour.

This is a cheerless book lacking in the essential ingredients of humour and humanity.

Judged solely as art, though, the six pieces, including fragments of a diary, are vague and uneven, and as personal impressions they are overegoistic and too lacking in the saving grace of humour.