unhumorous

Although you can’t judge a film by its trailer, the muted, unhumorous tone of this teaser hints at the film’s objective.

The tweet isn’t consciously hyperbolic or self-deprecating, like a lot of memetic references — it’s pure and deeply unhumorous political amplification, something HBO itself isn’t too happy about.

Your unhumorous reformer, with painful intensity of moral self-consciousness, cries out:— "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!"

It began in the hut, with a couple of sad young Jocks, who were like to be sad, as they might have said; but they only smiled in wry yet not unhumorous resignation.

His eyes gleamed with hatred unmistakable as they held Carrington’s; and the grin on his lips was the cold, unhumorous grin of the fighter who is not dismayed by odds.