Word: cheerlessly
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...plays the game in the old courtly way, making it a ritual as steeped in aristocratic value as the Japanese tea ceremony or the No drama. His young challenger, a fine player and engaging fellow, nevertheless embodies the raw modern spirit. His game is tense and cheerless, "an inexorable gnawing...
...this attention, the consumer has turned into something of a Scrooge. Even The Salvation Army is having trouble prying dimes out of him. In department stores, cash-register tapes for the Christmas season are running scarcely above last year's cheerless levels. The National Retail Merchants Association in November had predicted a rise of 6%. Then its officials took one look at the early returns and revised their forecast to a 3% or 4% gain. Considering inflation, that would amount to as much as a 3% drop in the volume of goods actually sold...
...only magnificent." Were he alive today, James, a connoisseur of cities, might easily say the same thing about New York or Paris or Tokyo, for the great city is one of the paradoxes of history. In countless different ways, it has almost always been an unpleasant, disagreeable, cheerless, uneasy and reproachful place; in the end, it can only be described as magnificent...
...Cheerless Lowell...
...When the jury is sequestered, its members must forsake their careers and all the rhythms of their normal lives for prolonged periods. For three weeks in 1967, jurors in the trial of former Senate Aide Bobby Baker on theft, income tax evasion and conspiracy charges were confined to a cheerless court building in Washington, D.C., while Baker himself was free. Their only "relief," if it can be called that, came on weekends, when they were herded into buses for rides around the winter countryside. Jury Member Lenzie Barnes recalls: "It's like being a prisoner of war or being...