21. "But I like how I've taken to it, " he declares with a mirthless laugh. 22. Asked whether he expected to head the government, he smiled, laughed in a seemingly mirthless fashion, and walked away. 23. The director is Roland Joffe, whose sanctimony-charged filmography includes the studiedly mirthless " City of Joy," 24. Most of her dances were so serious, she had been dubbed " Mirthless Martha " by her musical director Louis Horst. 25. De Niro has parlayed his mirthless grin and Everyman anger into some of the most compelling portraits ever of life on the margins. 26. Since his elevation to president in 1994, Ivester has worked successfully to dispel his image as something of a mirthless bean counter. 27. "Those are two guys who have been in Washington too long, " he said with his tight, mirthless smile. 28. Sunday's defeat meant a mirthless 60-mile ride back to the team's training base on its hot pink Mercedes bus. 29. The latter is a toothy but thoroughly mirthless death's head of a racketeering elder brother to one of the film's dead men. 30. Dershowitz eloquently vents his scorn-- shared by many-- for the mirthless satire that the Starr investigation has become . _ Allen D . Boyer
