Word: cheerlessness
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...cheerless novel of familial envy...
Thank heaven all the characters in this cheerless book have enough money so that they can skip from London to country and from town house to studio when the need arises, as it so often does. Their conversation is spare and broody and liberally sprinkled with dots: "I lack the . . . the stamina . . . yes." Along the way the cliches mount, crowned by the blatant use of children's deaths to prod the action toward some kind of climax; otherwise Sin would be a serial. Here's hoping the other six vices are not on Hart's agenda...
...just thinking about another three-or-so years at MIT gave me gas pains. Neither the Posers nor the extracurriculars I'd picked up along the way could mitigate my disillusionment, and for a long time I might have been the most cheerless individual in Cambridge...
...Moscow supermarket across from the Kiev railroad station as the New Year opened, shoppers made their way past cheerless holiday decorations toward the display case in the processed-meat department. There they confronted a Muscovite consumer's dream: not sugarplum fairies but kolbasa sausages piled high on chipped metal trays. Yet there was no buying frenzy. The price per kilo was 43.75 rubles, compared with only 2.20 rubles less than a year ago. Grumbled a middle-aged woman overcome by price paralysis: "What a nightmare...
...humbled, and the cruelty with which this was done was so efficient that 20 years later the blackballing was still the most important emotional event of his life, far weightier than marriage, fatherhood or success in the writing dodge. Or so the author tries to convince us, in glum, cheerless chapters. An ending in which Clay's daughter also comes to grief at Princeton is mawkish and clumsy...