Example Sentences

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Her house is pristine and lifeless, reflecting Pansy’s own sense of joylessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

But the joylessness of Diamond’s personality, as detailed by the musical’s book writer, Anthony McCracken, exists in a discomfiting, static counterpoint to the dynamism of his music.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2022

Making her second album during the pandemic also helped her combat the feelings of "joylessness" she'd experienced in her teens.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2022

Every time Deneen writes about virtue it tastes like castor oil — self-denial and joylessness.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2018

Through analysed heaven and over analysed fields it trails its joylessness around the earth.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley