Sentence examples for in joyless from inspiring English sources

In joyless girlhood working for her bread.

Let us fuck the contract in joyless mechanized unison!

Too often at banquets in China he has watched first-growth claret being downed in joyless, glass-draining toasts, well into the small hours.

Gratification, though, may be the wrong word, since "Auto Focus" amounts almost to a clinical case study in joyless, desperate compulsion.

For years it manifested itself in joyless obligation and isolation: I would sit at other people's tables feeling more lonely than if I had stayed by myself.

In the rarefied world of European silent film studies, asserting that Dietrich (who always denied it) was in "Joyless Street" isn't new.

In your new film, God's Pocket, you appear in several joyless sex scenes.

At one point Hare's Solness describes himself as solitary, still and "impotent": a word I haven't found in other translations but which reinforces the idea that the architect, trapped in a joyless marriage, is sexually recharged by Hilde's arrival.

Quantities are everything in this joyless scene.

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

In the joyless gloom, while the war continues.