Sentence examples for mirthlessness from inspiring English sources

In these cathedrals of mirthlessness, he can conjoin with his co-religionists in celebration of the body ugly with no detriment to the rest of us.

You'll need a shot of joy after that mirthlessness, so get it via Mavis!

Improbably redeeming the overall mirthlessness is Emma Thompson, briskly profane as Barney's elderly, foul-mouthed ma – hard as drywall nails, with skin the leathery texture of sun-dried tomatoes.

For the French, a nation of lapsed Catholic pleasure-seekers, the word Protestant evokes hard work, austerity and mirthlessness.

The panda facepaint, the frogspawn contact lenses and the dull, rasping voice might be whimsically intended, but their effect is one of deep and tedious mirthlessness, the sort of pained pretension you see in teen goths stalking round Camden on a Saturday.