Shirin Ebadi, a human-rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize-winner who has criticised the regime from abroad, has been threatened with prosecution on charges of tax evasion if she dares to return home.Even on calm days, Tehran wears a scowling, joyless aspect.
Another said: "If it is time to die, we can die .The atmosphere at ZANU rallies is joyless.
It's an ode to joyless sex, hard-won after a war of attrition.
Here was a food basket of hope, a basket that embodied the Goop philosophy, a basket that said, loud and proud: even America's poor can enjoy the kind of joyless, buttock-clenching, is-this-kombucha-locally-sourced? diet a body-image obsessed Hollywood actor might suffer, in order to look good in a Stella McCartney crêpe de chine statement-piece skirt ($1,960 on Goop's webstore).
To be an adult is often to be the ringmaster of a joyless circus of problems and pressures.
The description of the government's budget by Fine Gael, the main opposition party, as "jobless and joyless" will undoubtedly resonate with the unemployed, poorer families reliant on child benefit and lower income workers, of the latter in particular public sector workers.
In your new film, God's Pocket, you appear in several joyless sex scenes.
[It's] a completely joyless place.
The Winspears gave $42m to the opera house.In this section A joyless recovery A public row Love of Labour Not right enough Hard to dislodge J Street puts a foot in the door Desert excellence Exit Bratton Lights down, curtain up One year of The One Reprints Related items Lone Star risingJul 9th 2009The city hopes that the arts will spur economic development.
See articleStockmarkets around the world endured another joyless week, capping a gloomy first half of the year for investors.
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