One sportswriter wrote that The House of Thrills had become "as joyless as a prison exercise yard".
Partly, no doubt, this is to counter the mixed reviews the film met with; Variety, for example, said it played like "a joyless corrective to Robin Hood's prior screen adventures".
Heffernan offers an alternative to this joyless race to the bottom by sharing ample examples of business leaders and companies who've found creative, cooperative paths to success--resulting in a healthier kind of winning.
The novel's uneasy love story of insecure anti-hero tough, Machin, and his world-weary landlady, Mrs Howard, earthily provides harrowing off-field narrative, but it is in the raw sporting passages where the reader can wince at the resonance of uncomfortable truths as in, to take a single example, this touchline gallop by the malcontent, joyless Machin.
An international rescue effort was able to lend Austria just $15m, less than half the gold lost.In this section Barbarians in love The mortgage parallel Plugging the hole Don't start from here Outside the law Peace of mind The joyless or the jobless Correction: Andhra Pradesh ReprintsThe Credit-Anstalt example is still relevant today.
In this peculiar exercise in déjà vu, the joyless, dissolute teen-agers from Easton Ellis's début, "Less Than Zero" (1985), resurface as joyless, dissolute adults.
The challenge in satirizing a technical manual, as this example semi-suicidally undertakes to do, is to capture the inherently joyless tedium of conveying specialized instructional information, while tipping off the reader that the cod liver oil is laced with laughing gas.
"House Every Weekend", they say, is rubbish, a generic, inert lump of provincial-club chart-cheese, a joyless trudge through the backwaters of post-2012 UK "deep house", a pinpointedly perfect example of everything dull and stultifying about the kind of house that the real heads recoil from.
Outsiders are also monitoring Turkey as one of the Muslim world's rare examples of a working democracy.The election contest has been joyless if feverish, marked by huge rallies and demonstrations that suggest there will be a big voter turnout.
And for those who suspect such an avid bunch of pin-counters to be a joyless lot, AG Cooper claims in his paper, "Holmesian Humour", to have counted 292 examples of the master's laughter.
