Translation examples
It was a stony smile, humorless as a crevasse in a rock-face.
Tenía una sonrisa pétrea tan falta de humor como una grieta en una roca.
His lined face was intelligent, but there was something humorless and fanatical about his mouth.
Su rostro delgado era inteligente, pero hay algo falto de humor y fanático en su boca.
He was from Maine and had little knowledge of the humorlessness of New York police.
Era oriundo del estado de Maine y no comprendía la falta de humor de la policía de Nueva York.
I am confident that it is their diet that makes the Nyueng Bao such a humorless people.
Estoy convencido que es la dieta lo que hace a los nyueng bao un pueblo tan falto de humor.
The man gave a short, humorless laugh and dismissed Rab with a contemptuous glance.
El hombre le dedicó una risa corta y falta de humor, y descartó a Ramón con una mirada de desprecio. Estudió a Sara cuidadosamente.
He was a more than competent gear man-the Beinhas would not hire technical people who were second-rate-but his plodding humorlessness was annoying in itself as well as evidence of a lack of imagination.
Era un técnico de equipos muy competente, las Beinha no contratarían a ningún técnico de segunda fila, pero su molesta falta de humor lo irritaba por sí sola y constituía una prueba de su falta de imaginación.
Nor is the work of George Orwell very rib-tickling, though he could be witty enough at his own expense. (By the way, what is often really meant by the supposed humorlessness of their radicals is their supposed inability to laugh at themselves.
Tampoco es muy graciosa la obra de George Orwell, aunque sabía ser ingenioso a su propia costa, (A propósito, lo que con frecuencia se quiere decir con la supuesta falta de humor de los radicales es su presunta incapacidad para reírse de si mismos.
Dan Gregory kept me around as long as he did, about three years, because I was servile and because he needed company, since he had alienated most of his famous friends with his humorlessness and rage during political arguments.
Dan Gregory me conservó durante todo aquel tiempo, unos tres años, porque yo era servil y porque él necesitaba compañía, pues había ahuyentado a la mayoría de sus ilustres amigos debido a su falta de humor y a su irascibilidad durante las discusiones políticas.
Yanakov and his officers-all Graysons, in fact—had been so stiff and unnatural—or half-openly contemptuous—in the presence of his own female officers that he'd developed a mental picture of a dour, humorless home life in which women were rarely seen and never heard, but Rachel and Anna Yanakov were lively and eloquent.
Yanakov y sus oficiales, todos ellos graysonitas, habían sido tan inflexibles, malintencionados o básicamente desdeñosos en presencia de las mujeres oficiales que había llegado a imaginar que su vida familiar sería triste y falta de humor, un ambiente en el que las mujeres rara vez eran vistas u oídas, pero Rachel y Anna eran alegres y elocuentes.
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