joylessness

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• She’s appalled by the “solitary, joyless rectitude” of another enslaved Trojan who insists on covertly burying Priam and performing funeral rites at the grave.

• In response to the latter, a new generation of chefs, most notably David Chang, embraced the “lowbrow,” waxing about Popeyes and Domino’s, insisting anyone who didn’t enjoy it was a joyless snob.

• Boston Red Sox historian Gordon Edes called it “the most joyless World Series ever.”

• I mean, what kind of joyless world are we leaving for our children?

• If married life is as boring and joyless as this document, I am glad I am celibate.

• The quintessentially American lesson he learns is never to be joyless.

• The traffic was as light as if it were some joyless holiday.

• The man was like a dark cloud—rather like having a joyless loan officer run the country.

• Only that strange bird perched, joyless and alone, over the fire, on the pole from which the kettle hung.

• As this joyless impossibility flitted across my mind, I rounded a bleak sand-dune.

• After many years of joyless life, the blind grandmother had at last found something to make her happy.

• This made the fourth, and the wife of only six months' standing, had a heavy and joyless heart.

• The seeming loveless weather that hung over the earth and filled the air, was in joyless harmony with his feelings.