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a lack of humour
What does "a lack of humour" mean in this context? "taking things much too seriously"? But, it does not sound to fit the context appropriately.
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In her 2001 book The Trouble with Beauty,7 Wendy Steiner sees beauty as a higher principle outside the boundaries of time and place, achieved through a striving for love, compassion and, especially, through the female spirit of empathy. Beauty is expressed through decorum and finesse, harmony and balance, gorgeousness, even glamour. She deplores the ugly (mostly male) expressions of squalor, outrage, abstraction, formlessness and misogyny endemic in modernist and contemporary art. Steiner may be recognising a hitherto suppressed feminine aesthetic but even to dare to speak of beauty seriously is to lay herself open to accusations of naivety, self-deception and a lack of humour.
Context:
In her 2001 book The Trouble with Beauty,7 Wendy Steiner sees beauty as a higher principle outside the boundaries of time and place, achieved through a striving for love, compassion and, especially, through the female spirit of empathy. Beauty is expressed through decorum and finesse, harmony and balance, gorgeousness, even glamour. She deplores the ugly (mostly male) expressions of squalor, outrage, abstraction, formlessness and misogyny endemic in modernist and contemporary art. Steiner may be recognising a hitherto suppressed feminine aesthetic but even to dare to speak of beauty seriously is to lay herself open to accusations of naivety, self-deception and a lack of humour.
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red apple What does "a lack of humour" mean in this context? "taking things much too seriously"? Yes.
- red apple What does "a lack of humour" mean in this context?
- "taking things much too seriously"?
- Yes.
- red apple But, it does not sound to fit the context appropriately.
- To me, it is quite appropriate.
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red appleWhat does "a lack of humour" mean in this context? "taking things much too seriously"?Yes.
red apple But, it does not sound to fit the context appropriately.To me, it is quite appropriate.
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