Sentence examples for joyless with from inspiring English sources

'Some of the players tell me,' he says, 'that there have been more smiles and more enthusiasm in the past month than in the past couple of years.' If that is an oblique reference to a regime under Pienaar that had grown joyless with the grind of underachievement, no one should be under the illusion that life under Buck will be a holiday camp.

The young man, who had a family history of depression and addiction, was described as apathetic and joyless, with sleep problems and a low appetite.

And the farther I went, the more ashamed I felt of the joyless thoughts with which I had anticipated the event.

The piano is for their 9-year-old son, Joshua (Jacob Kogan), a musical prodigy and a joyless child with televangelist-perfect hair and an unhealthy interest in embalming.

It means that having landed at Los Angeles airport with Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith – this trio of Londoners forming a remarkable British band, the xx – Croft is pulled aside for a long and joyless conference with immigration officials.

Klara Elenius's 15-minute "Insyn" (Sweden, 2007) was a piece of arty domestic dance surrealism for two women and one man, heavily influenced by Ingmar Bergman at his most joyless, but with its characters reduced almost to mechanistic bizarrerie.

CHICAGO — In the finale of his brief and joyless cameo with the Chicago White Sox last season, Nick Swisher sat on the bench as DeWayne Wise started in left field in the playoffs.

In the brief first act Leigh shows Jean, a Brummie girl who lives alone in a Kilburn bedsit, having joyless sex with a married man (played by Daniel Coonan) whose wife suddenly bursts in upon them.

But their collective eccentricities feel halfhearted and joyless compared with those in "Emperor of the Air," especially those of the family in "American Beauty," whose jaunty dysfunction carries on guilt-free, with no burden of dynastic responsibility or need to further a novel's plot.

9 30 P.M. (TMC) THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH (2008) In this adaptation of Michael Chabon's 1988 coming-of-age novel, Jon Foster plays Art Bechstein, a stockbroker in training bogged down in joyless relationships with the manager (Mena Suvari) of the discount bookstore where he works, and his father (Nick Nolte), a gangster who wants his son to be respectable.

What Andrews did, with remarkable success, was strip the play of its conventional realism while preserving its essential spirit: it was still a study of three sisters stuck in a provincial hell-hole and facing a joyless future with the stoical endurance that is Chekhov's trademark.