Sentence examples for lacking joy from inspiring English sources

The flesh is mushy and lacking joy; the frilly leaves of lollo rosso a lazy accompaniment.

When you're lacking joy in your life, the deficit certainly impacts your ability to give joy to others.

But somehow, for all its faultlessness, the piece lacks joy.

Without the ability to feel satisfied with their best or proud of their accomplishment, these leaders often lack joy and professional satisfaction.

"It's almost as if he lacks joy receptors," Will says of Casper, who begins looking like a good guinea pig for Will's chemical experiments.

Debates about who's going to be the next Philip Roth are not coloured by criticisms of brilliant young male authors for not being cheery enough – I've not read any criticism that Legend of a Suicide, for example, lacks joy.

But the adult market for adhesive bandages has largely lacked joy, until now.

UChicago Medicine's Vineet Arora, AM'03, who has studied physician fatigue and professionalism, says many work environments lack "joy and sustainability". The ghost of Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek hovers over the GOP convention.

This voice says it will protect me from disappointment, but really it only offers only one guarantee -- that I will lack joy because I am living according to a script that forbids it.

"It feels a little lacking in joy".

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