Sentence examples for joyless type from inspiring English sources

I dare anyone to read American Psycho Patrick Bateman's articulate and impassioned monologues on the recorded output of Phil Collins or Huey Lewis and the News, delivered in the dry, humourless tones of a particularly joyless type of music critic, and not crack a twisted smile.

As a friend said, his main experience there was "being told off by various joyless types for not being the right sort of gay," and another summed it up perfectly: "more mired in arguments about inclusion/exclusion than actually providing a service".

In which case, joyless miserabilism is exactly what we need.

Purposefully avoiding close connection or commitment to anyone or anything, Abel appears a literary type of his time: the young man who holds himself aloof, guarded, perceptive, inherently superior, essentially joyless.

It's also joyless.

Stale and joyless.

Is Brexit exceptionally joyless?

What a joyless thought.

In joyless girlhood working for her bread.

[It's] a completely joyless place.

To "embarrassment" and "shame" he added "joyless".