| Their florid complexions competed with the joylessly garish Lotto posters. |
| Given these constraints, as oppressive as the white tie and collar studs the men joylessly wear, the actors give focused, intelligent performances. |
| It's an easy story to forget, if you're a non-runner, and your vision of marathon-running involves skeletal obsessives flogging themselves joylessly to the brink of collapse in pursuit of an arbitrary, solipsistic goal. |
| Ady's poems became required reading joylessly recited by generations of Hungarian schoolchildren in bombastic voices of patriotism. |
| The image of Atta joylessly spooning cold mashed potato into his mouth, taken with everything else we know, strongly suggested a man for whom this world mattered little. |
| Three days a month became a nonstop fuckathon. He'd had these visions of himself as an oil derrick made of flesh, pumping endlessly and joylessly away. |
