Sentence examples for lacking in joy from inspiring English sources

"It feels a little lacking in joy".

His attitude to sex is curiously obsessive, lacking in joy.

Nunn's revival is full-lunged with terrific vocal performances, particularly from Waddingham, but it often feels lumbering and effortful, technically impressive but lacking in joy and warmth.

The pork tenderloin served with black beans and plantains was more interesting with its whiff of serrano pepper in the pineapple reduction than another option, an undergrilled grilled hunk of yellowfin tuna, which, with its ascetic chickpea fritter and mix of peas and shredded carrots, is singularly lacking in joy.

"We saw a market that was really lacking in joy and inspiration, and we feel like we're really uniquely qualified to bring that".

If you are dying or unwell, exhausted, sexually dysfunctional, tearful, racked with anxiety, too depressed to face the world, or otherwise lacking in equanimity and joy, the bedroom is the place where you are most likely to be found".

I promise you there is nothing more lacking in sanctity and joy, nothing as gutting, no church as empty, as the funeral of a child no one claimed, or wanted.

Pritchett compares Leskov to Turgenev and finds him lacking in grace and illusion; but the "joy" and "passion" to which Howe refers arise from Leskov's disruptive insistence that his stories are simultaneously and inextricably real and fake.

To have a sense of color is a joyous thing — and joy has been conspicuously lacking in fashion recently.

Worry deprives us of seeing the possibilities and the joy because we are focused on what we are lacking in our lives.

What was lacking in O'Connor's life — and in her art — was the spontaneous experience of intimate love, with its attendant joys and tedium and security.