Sentence examples for scant joy from inspiring English sources

Beset by various anxieties and phobias, Bessie withdraws into the narrowest of existences, taking scant joy in her two children and none at all in her good-hearted barrister husband.

Joy, joy, joy!

She communicates Celie's suffering with scant exaggeration or fuss and her joy is infectious.

That, I guess, is true to Highsmith, who has scant interest in children or in the panoply of domestic joys, which to her are barely joys at all.

This is not going to be a joy ride because the lid is being blown off an entire region with frail institutions, scant civil society and virtually no democratic traditions or culture of innovation.

For a scant few days, Jack Frost cast a spell and transformed a muddy fen into a place of beauty and play, novelty and joy.

Scant consolation.

It drew scant attention.