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When you're writing about topics this raw it's easy to slip into humourless sanctimony, but Walker's music is located in compassion, always finding nuggets of hope and happiness in the darkness.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

"Part of the consideration was refusing to yield to this idea that everything must be sober and humourless to be authentic at all," says Greaves.

From BBC • May 19, 2023

He may be empathetic and dogged but mostly he’s dour, humourless, dyspeptic, antisocial.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2020

The culture was being hijacked by college students, humourless young people who knew nothing of real life, its paradoxes and disappointments.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2017

Knight appealed to and encouraged it often, for he could not have lived with a humourless woman, no matter how sweet.

From The Second Latchkey by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)