Sentence examples similar to a trace of joy from inspiring English sources

Delayed by a bitter legal battle over his management contract, he finally presented the public with a version of Darkness from which all traces of joy and release had been purged, replaced by a sense of desperation.

Rousey never shows self-doubt, but you can detect a trace of it in the joy and disbelief that transform her face after she wins.

At the same time, the filmmakers verge on haughtiness themselves in their stern refusal to allow the slightest trace of joy or spontaneity to creep into the music or Bach's busy life.

Silverman has told perhaps hundreds of jokes about jerking off, from the mundane and ridiculous to the moralistically sublime but this one was delivered without joy, or even a trace of her famous smirk.

Silverman has told perhaps hundreds of jokes about jerking off, from the mundane and ridiculous to the moralistically sublime — but this one was delivered without joy, or even a trace of her famous smirk.

Not a trace of mud.

A trace of cushion.

A trace of perfume.

Without a trace of a smile, Mlle.

There was a trace of woodworm damage.

A trace of mineral smoke rises.