Sentence examples for thanklessness from inspiring English sources

"Young people are conscious of the pressures, the lack of returns for your effort, the need to establish their own family's financial security, the thanklessness of the task, in trying to be a universal leader, so they are less inclined to go into that space," Dodson says.

Kechiche's thanklessness is startling, when posed this way; he seems to owe his leading actors a whole lot.

"It's a weird thing: when you go in early, like Obama did, you get this kind of thanklessness — you didn't see the massacre," Bass said.

The greatest and most essential virtue is thanklessness, the ability to keep serving even when there are no evident rewards — no fame, no admiration, no gratitude.

No one notices him, or the lawn, and I wonder if he ever reflects on the endlessness and thanklessness of his task.

Why persevere with the thanklessness that abounds in prison reform work?

He sighed, looking for words to describe the thanklessness of being a New Orleans cop.

"It's a weird thing: when you go in early, like Obama did, you get this kind of thanklessness — you didn't see the massacre,'' Bass said.

Nothing, you just get fired.'O.K.K., I'll try it for twenty-five years.' That's who those people are!" He finished up with a great riff on Achilles and his mother a stinging indictment of the thanklessness of children.

In fact, the N.F.L.'s sideline quartet are among the most diligent and football-savvy members of the broadcast set, and given the thanklessness of their roles, it's a wonder more of them don't imitate Oliver, who when informed of Keyshawn Johnson's comments threatened to knock his lights out.

Known in Washington shorthand as "the podium job," it has achieved a certain iconic stature — or thanklessness — in the ritual kabuki of Washington.