Joyless

And refreshingly, the lesbian romance is a nonissue for Leah’s family and the Haredi characters aren’t presented as repressive or joyless.

On top of that, the story as a whole had a somewhat bleak and mostly joyless tone.

Their British counterparts, meanwhile, are repressed right down to their bones, joyless and insipid.

No one wants to be viewed as a joyless prude or a bigot.

Quite the reverse, the greater his professional success, the more reckless and joyless were his casual affairs and the more entrenched his delusion that his 'Boys' suspected nothing.

Science has been attacked as joyless and soulless, an attempt by some malevolent elite caste that uses its unique language to control others.

Ignore the joyless jobsworths (except, you know, checking about people’s allergies) and celebrate good scents.

It’s a joyless existence, one not much brightened by the arrival of Roderick Murchison (James McArdle) and his neurasthenic wife.

Since he succeeded Mauricio Pochettino, his team have produced few decent performances never mind any signature performances, playing joyless, guileless football in the process.

The portrait of parenthood they presented to Judith was that it was arduous, a joyless slog.

This is the endless modern limbo of Newcastle: utterly joyless, utterly sapping and utterly hopeless.

Wasteful too of opportunity, and of our pleas at the time for innovative housing, renewable energy, decent public transport or just something breathtakingly lovely to sweeten the joyless aftermath.

But she and Harry do have to submit to the same joyless experience of having every financial move cleared by an accountant or lawyer with U.S. tax expertise.

I can sense the shaming, criticism and condescension coming my way, let me be clear: I am not a joyless person.

There are, of course, exceptions (because Mann is always trying different things), but for the most part these are joyless pictures.

They didn’t force their party to pledge allegiance to the most extreme positions, or turn politics into a joyless exercise in orthodoxy.

Indeed, it is not that much different from the life they led on Earth: joyless, friendless and uncomfortable.