| 11. | Are we so mirthless that we cannot abide the thought of our top elected official getting a life?
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| 12. | Is mine the only family for whom gift-giving has turned labored, mirthless, vaguely corporate?
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| 13. | The film's mirthless exuberance, which includes a trip to the moon, exerts a creepy fascination.
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| 14. | He offered a mirthless smile and protested that he was not ( italics ) that ( end italics ) old.
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| 15. | All go around in mirthless circles, missing only a laughtrack to be indistinguishable from the most mediocre of sitcoms.
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| 16. | He seldom laughed but when he did the rest of the men laughed too in sporadic bursts of mirthless noise.
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| 17. | Interrupting the mirthless proceedings from time to time is the show's most over-the-top touch.
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| 18. | The critic referred to the actors in the film as " the lazy, the privileged and the mirthless ".
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| 19. | By the most mirthless conveyances imaginable ( hard to believe humorist Roy Blount Jr . is credited with the screenplay ).
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| 20. | But it makes for a surprisingly mirthless exercise once Hornby gets past the easy laughs and must take his story seriously.
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