Sentence examples for a joyless place from inspiring English sources

The world can be a joyless place.

Funny how a venue that tries to give so much bang for your leisure buck is such a joyless place.

A Sad lamp sounds a bit like the naughty step – a joyless place where you sit and think about what you've done.

Television advertisements have portrayed Britain as a joyless place in which teachers don't teach, policemen shuffle papers in station houses rather than walk beats, hospital operations are never performed on time, immigrants are bogus asylum seekers and released prisoners rape old women making downtown shopping trips.

Raised Catholic, she found the church to be a joyless place.

According to the view of man's nature and destiny held in a particular religion, this underworld may be a gloomy, joyless place where the shades of all the dead merely survive, or it may be pictured as a place of awful torments where the damned suffer for their misdeeds.

[It's] a completely joyless place.

It is a blighted, joyless place of boarded-up buildings.

"John Major had just introduced the Criminal Justice Act and the UK felt like a very joyless place to be, where protest and parties were being criminalised".

Fort Belichick is known as a paranoid and joyless place whose inhabitants are not above pushing the rules in the name of achieving a competitive edge — though Patriots haters prefer the far less euphemistic term "cheating". It's a charge that has stemmed from the so-called Spygate incident of 2007, in which a Patriots employee was caught illicitly videotaping the hand signals of opposing coaches.

'Saturday mornings will be an empty, desolate, joyless place without you.' The tabloids and celebrity magazines have had a quiet time with them, for which they're grateful.