| In a ruling that threatens to cement a national reputation for cheerlessness, a French court has decided to uphold a ban on smiling in pictures taken for passports or identity papers. |
| Fifteen-year-old Mary lives a life of toil and cheerlessness on her father's farm. |
| She could see the lush green lawn, and a tall willow tree at one corner, but the gray sky and drizzling rain added the cheerlessness in her mood. |
| Not yet pleased with their friend's overall level of cheerlessness, the two continued. |
| Broadway 'ABSURD PERSON SINGULAn' An uninspired revival of Alan Ayckbourn's classic farce of marital misery and Christmas cheerlessness, directed by John Tillinger. |
