We are making every effort to try and soften the edges of these draconian rules but brick walls and head butting are pretty joyless occupations. |
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The pleasure of buying a house there had turned into a draining and joyless slog and we'd had enough. |
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Food is supposed to taste good, and health promotion should not be a series of negative messages that convey a joyless future. |
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It may have been a joyless campaign but the national debate has been intense. |
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Stanley has one of the most joyless birthday parties imaginable thrown in his honour, with an undercurrent of menace never far from the surface. |
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The middle trilogy is watchable enough rot, but the recent films are joyless, plotless screeds on macroeconomics and industrial relations. |
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He was 55 years old with a bad marriage and a long string of joyless affairs behind him. |
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York endured a joyless visit to Pontefract as they were convincingly beaten 24-0 in a Powergen Yorkshire One result. |
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In the midst of all that glee and gamesomeness it was strange to see one standing joyless. |
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It's a pity you're distracted all the time by the plotless, joyless machinations of everyone else involved. |
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And so, Tuesday nights suddenly become characterised by Class A drug abuse, lap-dancing, ram-raiding and joyless encounters with prostitutes. |
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Such joyless suppression crushes that most precious thing in life, the flowering of the individual human spirit. |
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A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters. |
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There is a certain kind of joyless middle-aged woman, either single or unhappily married, who absolutely embodies this theory. |
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Even so, one must read between the lines to discover the full impact on her of the long joyless union with Thomas. |
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The other rooms were just too large and empty, making them both joyless and cheerless for most of the time. |
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Barrie himself was childless, his own joyless marriage to Mary Ansell, a beautiful actress, ending in public ignominy when his wife had an affair. |
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Friendly wagers aside, the press box is a joyless place to watch a game. |
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And yet they were depicted in newspapers and novels as joyless, sexless taskmistresses intent on imposing their will on others. |
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If married life is as boring and joyless as this document, I am glad I am celibate. |
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It is fruitless and joyless to complain that our days are short if we act as though there would be no end of them. |
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Orpheus bowed low to Persephone and promised to remove himself from their joyless kingdom. |
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But it does mean that the record, when it came, felt unspontaneous and joyless. |
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The house of Hades is a labyrinth of dark, cold, and joyless halls, surrounded by locked gates and guarded by the hellhound Cerberus. |
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To be an adult is often to be the ringmaster of a joyless circus of problems and pressures. |
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However, the flower has empty petals, since the life of people experiencing poverty is frequently a colourless, joyless existence. |
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Contrary to what they believe, the public prefer their politicians fallibly human, rather than joyless teetotallers whose only addiction is to squash or golf. |
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I didn't vote for this spineless, gormless, joyless, clueless Government. |
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For a song about dancing in the streets, it's overwhelmingly joyless. |
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None of it connects with anything beyond this joyless carnival. |
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But what about all those folk who write them off as joyless misery guts? |
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I came to realize that it was an unnecessarily mirthless, joyless book and I would like it to be, for one thing, more sensuous, more rounded in a way. |
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A modest, undemonstrative fellow, Shrubb was visibly moved as the crowd ignored the joyless Glasgow weather and offered him a spine-tingling welcome. |
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First impressions are that it is a joyless, characterless pub, staffed by disinterested graduate students and other ingrates, with bizarrely obscure range of beers. |
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There lay the houses in the dawn light with closed window-shutters, like joyless slumberers with heavy lids. |
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One expects to be joyless in the company of Mr. Spitzer, the former governor, from whom negativity and belligerence flow bounteously, as from a deep Artesian source. |
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I mean, what kind of joyless world are we leaving for our children? |
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The quintessentially American lesson he learns is never to be joyless. |
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The traffic was as light as if it were some joyless holiday. |
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