joyless

I know this is a joyless place, but please bring him to me.

He put some light into an otherwise joyless Boston season.

"It could be done," she said in a low and joyless voice.

Is there anything more grizzly and joyless than an old school photo?

What vivid experience of the world is being reflected in these joyless works?

And sometimes she sees herself participate in the joyless eating.

Was there anything in those joyless eyes that intended him harm?

Henry used to charge me with having a joyless view of the universe.

There are many valuable things in life that cannot be obtained without hard, joyless work.

The mouth smiled at me, but the smile was tight and joyless.

It was a joyless union, not the return of lost happiness she had hoped for.

Oh what a joyless, little world of pantomime politics you live in.

I gave him a wan, joyless smile and went to lie down.

She survives because the events are blank and joyless for her.

Throughout there was a joyless kind of determination never to be proved wrong.

If all this sounds a tad joyless, then fear not.

Without what he has done, it would be a joyless world.'

Delivery had become a mechanical, joyless service to be rendered.

Weary of the world and joyless on the job.

He'd been obliged to commit too many crimes in this joyless world.

So much of what we learn about writing as children is somehow parched and joyless.

If everything is about flogging each other stuff life becomes pretty joyless.

She had been joyless ever since her sister's murder.

They were dumped in a joyless place nearly 200 miles away and deprived of their citizenship.

And that mother is a tragic figure, a joyless slave of her lucrative business.