Sentences with phrase «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.
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had a distinct brand of joylessness that made it difficult to stomach.
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.»
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Sometimes it is mere passive joylessness and dreariness, discouragement, dejection, lack of taste and zest and spring.
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.
Some people are «programmed» with tragic scripts, which cause them to live as losers with overwhelming feelings of powerlessness and joylessness.
Because of a certain joylessness in Minnesota's whole vibe, KAT really hasn't gotten enough respect for his otherworldly offense.
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.
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.