But for one man at least, the role of cheerless automaton seems to be palling. |
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I saw a picture of your cheerless face holding your resignation letter to the camera and I thought I'd better write. |
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What he remembers most was the stillness of the dressing-room and, later, the cheerless evening he spent at his hotel in Newport. |
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Most often I can see the beauty of the countryside even on a dull and cheerless day such as this. |
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Traders and residents are being warned the city will be drab and cheerless if funds are not found to pay for proper illuminations. |
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I didn't want people to see the cheerless me, I didn't want to seem weak, but most of all I didn't want others to know the pain within my soul. |
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I spent the next few cheerless evenings perspiring over our family computer, launching my new PDA into repeated death spirals. |
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A grey, wet, cheerless, Paris day bought with it the need for a self-indulgent treat. |
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It has been a cheerless four months since the storm tore this section of New Orleans to pieces. |
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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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The four anaemic trees along Bedford Hill only emphasise the cheerless prospect. |
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Despite meagre attempts to beautify the grounds with flowers and shrubs, there was no denying that this was a grim and cheerless place. |
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The opening story, Celia, is a cheerless piece about a woman who will go to bed with anyone who flourishes a bottle. |
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Actually, she has been very cheerless, she comes home from school quite heavy-hearted. |
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Nah, she's a miserable old boot with a cheerless face when the camera's off her. |
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Like Frey, his enemy throughout the recovery process is not the cheerless environment of rehab, but the moronic cheerfulness of recovery sloganeering. |
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With the pangs of hunger but barely assuaged they lay down upon the hard and cheerless sandy soil for yet another night of sleep. |
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The walls and floors were of stone, and the room was bland and cheerless. |
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The applause at the mention of his name is dutiful and cheerless. |
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It serves only to cast a chill upon intellectual and creative activities and to turn the serious business of law enforcement into a cheerless farce. |
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The audience applauded and cheered from time to time, but it was cheerless. |
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Hiking across it, I passed bleak, scruffy slopes and a lake of cheerless grey. |
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It may get lucky: the upward drift of top people's income may weaken in a cheerless recovery. |
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This is more of a problem for smaller firms than big companies, which have access to bond and equity markets, but it will act as a brake. From fool's gold to austerityThe recovery will also be cheerless. |
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So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast room, where the blinds were not drawn down, and which was a little more cheerful, or rather less cheerless, than the other rooms. |
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Their stern and cheerless teacher now sees a party everywhere. |
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The paperless walls of the bedroom looked grey and cheerless. |
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