Sentence examples for joyless choice from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rusisi described a joyless choice: to venture back to his village, now under rebel control, or to wither away in the grass waiting for the help that did not seem as if it would come.

That choice always struck me as sadly joyless, one more act of self-denial in a life already filled with struggle.

Pabst, known for social-psychological dramas like "The Joyless Street" (1925) and "Pandora's Box" (1929), was an understandable choice by the producers, but not, as it turned out, a particularly happy one.

The device samples the wearer's sweat every 30 minutes and tests it for alcohol, leaving them no choice but to put the bottle down and meditate on their crime from the depths of some joyless, boozeless, clear-headed limbo.

It's also joyless.

Stale and joyless.

Is Brexit exceptionally joyless?

What a joyless thought.

[It's] a completely joyless place.

In joyless girlhood working for her bread.

They manifest a joyless rococo.