Sentence examples for so joyless from inspiring English sources

Is the game so joyless that it's not worth hitting at least a few volleys before misfiring into the net?

Maybe that's why her campaign, even now when she's doing so well in the polls, seems so joyless.

None of which would matter if the resulting movie wasn't so joyless and tedious, a reboot quite without the first film's audacity and fun.

Here is the week's second conspiracy thriller, one with a nifty final twist, but it is so joyless and heavy-handed I found it impossible to like.

So joyless. 2 A bed with a toilet in it So you don't have to get up to use the toilet.

Knowingly and sometimes not, it's players like Brendon McCullum who remind us that cricket needn't always be so joyless and combative.

I can't in all conscience recommend giving anything so fundamentally joyless as a present, but instead offer up some great vegetarian books, starting with the colourful and joyous Fresh India (Fig Tree) by Meera Sodha, a collection of recipes harvested from her Gujarati-British family and drawing on the rich vegetarian tradition of India.

Maybe he could explain why this celebration of friendship feels so sour and joyless.

He asks why, if leaving the European Union means liberation, it feels so dull and joyless.

So as the joyless horror continues ad nauseam, you keep wondering why he can't just stop.

"Housewives of New York City" seems to drag on forever because there is something so dismal and joyless about that clique of arrivistes.