Sentence examples for joyless image from inspiring English sources
I've always thought they are a good antidote to the joyless image of the unyielding pragmatism of the Chinese.
It was a mistake to watch them end to end, but the relentless battering of desperately joyless sexual images is something I could have done without.
"Common/Places: Contemporary Photography From Germany and Northern Europe" has Gerhard Richter's close-ups on the surface of paintings, Rineke Dijkstra's stark portraits of joyless beachgoers and images by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Florschuetz and Sabine Hornig.
He was a joyless, cantankerous figure throughout the tournament.
The poetry sometimes breaches it, as in "Christmas Ballad" (1962), whose mordant portrait of a joyless St . Petersburgwinter lifts with images that fly above it.
I have my joyless funfairs, grim stockmarket charts and the image of my illness as cycling at full pelt into a brick wall: my choices were whether, when and how to get back on the bike, which direction to set off in again and at what pace.
The evening passes by as a joyless succession of flat words, sounds and images that at best trigger memories of the vitality of the film that inspired it.
Freed from narrative responsibility, the camera dwells for rather too long on images of under-nourished children amusing themselves in joyless playgrounds or hanging listlessly around the estate.
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).
