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) The results were humorless and hectoring, a tedious, nonstop barrage that was better suited to a Mad magazine satire than to the subtle task of infiltrating the wary consumer's mind.
After panning Demi Moore's performances in The Scarlet Letter and Striptease as stolid and humorless, most critics say that this movie revives her career.
Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' "lax and digressive" verses "serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was" (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's greatness: Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.
In his three-piece suits and high, starched collars, Walsh looked like a 19 th century Presbyterian minister, radiating an unflinching, humorless rectitude.
News Quiz participants found common ground in their loathing for professional scold William Bennett--his perpetual disapproval, his sanctimonious speechifying, his humorless yelping, the way the sunlight turns his hair into an auburn cascade, the kooky little songs he sings in the shower, his tousled amorous look first thing in the morning, the way his knowing hands, so strong yet so gentle ...