Sentences with word «joylessness»

had a distinct brand of joylessness that made it difficult to stomach.

Because of a certain joylessness in Minnesota's whole vibe, KAT really hasn't gotten enough respect for his otherworldly offense.

Many people who commit themselves 100 % to eliminating debt and saving money find that a certain joylessness creeps in after a while.

Man seems to be made for joy, for when joylessness makes protracted inroads not only his spirit but his body suffers.

That «Aliens» reference serves as a good pivot to discuss the movie's second most fatal flaw: it's all been done before (its most fatal flaw being the aforementioned joylessness).

We hear the history of the place in every creak of the floors, and sense the isolated joylessness of Toller's world and life in the silence.

There is a complete lack of fit between Leckey's vaunted interest in dance music and youth culture and the eerie joylessness of his art.

Eberstadt recounts her experience avidly perusing parenting manuals until, over time, they became «profoundly irritating» because of their «peculiar combination of joylessness and self - congratulation.»

cruelty, carelessness or irresponsibility, and disproportionate emphasis upon one single aspect of the relationship — and with these a joylessness in the linking of one with an other.

The real - world results of this choice are relativism, the nihilistic despair of chance and the joylessness of being a cellular mass, an accumulation of mere chemical reactions.

Some people are «programmed» with tragic scripts, which cause them to live as losers with overwhelming feelings of powerlessness and joylessness.

To warn her that drama and joylessness would play big roles in driving him away.

HAPPYish was created, essentially, for the late Philip Seymour Hoffman to play the lead role — Thom Payne, whose inner turmoil is exacerbated by his new boss, a wunderkind who uses all the hip buzzwords and generally throws his life into a state of joylessness.

The utter futility and joylessness of the hall pass becomes the focus, and more than anything the picture makes you wish Rick and Maggie had never embarked on the venture.

It can take the material incredibly seriously, working hard to keep disbelief suspended for everyone onboard, and risk descending into a grim spiral of joylessness.

Most separations, even the peaceful ones, are deeply unpleasant, full of paperwork and pettiness and pain — but the first season of Divorce had a distinct brand of joylessness that made it difficult to stomach.

In the end, though, the movie's superior craftsmanship can't overcome its aura of joylessness.

André Cadere's stacked rods, Blinky Palermo's dry remake of geometric abstraction, Niele Toroni's monochrome dots, and Michel Parmentier's stripes on unmounted canvas seem to appear solely for their joylessness.