Sentence examples similar to a joyless laugh from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gervais gives Bertram many of the same comic tics he brought to David Brent in "The Office" and Andy Millman in "Extras": a stammering befuddlement that is simultaneously verbose and nonsensical; sickly smiles and joyless laughs in which his mirth curdles with self-doubt; a tongue-tied staccato; and his special mixture of clueless grandiosity, insensitivity and stifled humiliation.

What a joyless thought.

They manifest a joyless rococo.

It has become a joyless profession.

The world can be a joyless place.

More like a joyless hell.Roger WilsonFalls Church, Virginia.

He was a joyless, cantankerous figure throughout the tournament.

Only a joyless fool would find grounds for complaint.

We'd made love, in a joyless ceremony of farewell.

But this was a joyless fight for life.

The narrator, more lucid, will be a joyless survivor.