Example Sentences

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In the show, rare glimpses of his inner turmoil come when he devours a lemon tart or a chocolate bar with a pleasureless intensity.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Both movies share the aesthetic of their characters’ similarly grim dedication to an ideal, and both offer the triumph and redemption of that pleasureless devotion.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2014

So let me at least use my hack-y little joke to sum up the major problem with this pleasureless Fox comedy, debuting tonight: it should be called We Hate Every Character on Our Own Sitcom.

From Time • Nov. 30, 2011

Madeleine stepped forward into a new and awful and wonderful world along a new and thorny and danger-beset path into a new and terrifying and pleasureless life.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy

And you, dear—living a pleasureless life, letting your thoughts dwell constantly on old troubles; that is how cranks are made.

From The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith by Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir