Sentence examples for trace of humor from inspiring English sources

The one thing conspicuously absent: a trace of humor.

"The Giants had better win," he said without a trace of humor in his voice.

There is no trace of humor in the dull "Chains of Love".

Yet not so long ago, some European historians said one of the many shortcomings of the Jews is that they have no trace of humor.

"Only if you do this can you learn why it makes sense to do this," he said with a trace of humor.

In the Garden of Debauchery, there is a man with a rooster's head in the process of unbuttoning his pants, a joke lacking any trace of humor.

"Dead" does an adequate job of building up the tension early, but the traces of humor with which the original writer-director, George A. Romero, slathered the first version weren't nearly as ham-fisted as those found in the current one.

There's a noticeable political slant; there's a wealth of research into the history, laws, and culture of prostitution; and the stories, written with finesse in the first person, actually contain more than faint traces of humor and humanity.

But even in his better films ("Finding Neverland," "Stranger Than Fiction") Forster has betrayed not even a trace element of humor.

There was no trace of traditional humor: No jokes.

He gave me a look with no trace of good humor.