Sentence examples for absence of joy from inspiring English sources

"He didn't have an absence of joy.

In the end, England left this tournament unloved by the rest of the football world, because they played with such an unlovable absence of joy and of grace, except in defeat, which they accepted with weary resignation.

Yet England returned home unloved by the wider football world because they played with such an unlovely absence of joy and expression, and, off the field, spent too much time locked away in their gilded castle in the Black Forest, paranoid and sullen to the last.

Absence of joy, especially when born of lack of faith, engenders poor Christian witness.

In the absence of Joy and Sadness, Anger takes over, motivating Riley to steal her mother's credit card and board a bus back to Minnesota.

The absence of any joy whatsoever is yet another aggressive sting.

I was flying with a budget airline so I figured acid would entertain me in the absence of the little screen of joy afforded by more affluent flyers.

Perhaps no one person could have embodied the many emotions of yesterday's St . Patricks Day Parade in Midtown, emotions that reached beyond ethnic pride to include the stab of remembered terror, the ache of fresh absence, the affirming joy of life.

Joy kept him alive — and it is possible that the absence of happiness allowed an access of joy.

Young parents and their children in the absence of their own family bought joy and satisfaction to older people and people with dementia while child carer's valued the routine and rewards associated with the IPP.

I wish I could tell you that I still find loads of joy in the holiday season despite the absence of my parents, but I would be lying.