Sentence examples for joyless way from inspiring English sources

This might seem like a joyless way to live, but Kincer doesn't see it that way.

It's a moreish substance for boorish sods, a grindingly joyless way to waste fifty quid and a weekend.

Chelsea played in a joyless and cynical way, untypical of the Premier League.

For the rest of the states, we chose the song with the least guitar or instrumentation because it got in the way of joyless moaning.

As her foreboding introductory description suggests, the novel explores the darker side of motherhood and marriage in a manner similar to the way Ms. Cusk chronicled her joyless existence as a new mother in her unsentimental 2001 memoir, "A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother".

All was of a piece: on the one hand, life was joyless, on the other it was coherent; either way, you were safe.

This is not to say that the way I thought of Calcutta was joyless; in fact, my sense of the commonplace aspects of its petit bourgeois life was fundamentally joyful.

There isn't a line in "Panic Room" that encourages a political reading, but there is something horribly apt in the way Fincher closes the drama in joyless exhaustion, leaving you certain that there will be a sequel to these events, not onscreen but in someone's home, tonight.

But that way of working had left me joyless about photos.

Lost amid some of the glowing industry assessments of last summer's "Jurassic World" was the fact that it was a thoroughly dreadful movie — joyless, cynical and quite possibly evil in the way it seemed to herald an entire wave of exploitative remember-the-'90s sequels that are doubtless headed our way.

In many ways, Hollywood seems to exemplify the most joyless aspects of capitalism.