Word: joyless
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...woman is enough to make readers think that sex really is dirty. She describes remarkably unpleasant oral activities with her female lover; if a man had written that, feminists would have beaten him unconscious with a copy of The Hite Report. The heroine is forever masturbating. Sex is often joyless or, when it is good, it sounds like 42nd Street: "Hot . . . hard . . . dripping . . . throbbing." At one point, Isadora complains: "While the whole world is f- away behind closed doors, all I do is write, write, write." Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Ms. Jong...
...women's clothing for their 1901 revelries, they don't seem so bad. Their charm, cleverness and sense of fun made their elitism tolerable, even nice. No like qualities abound here. All that's left is a brittle, petrified reminder of things past and a joyless, smiling augur of things to come...
...hideaways atop a series of luxury hotels on three continents he spun a web that ensnared an entire state, reached into the highest levels of the U.S. Government and became entwined with the tentacles of the Central Intelligence Agency. Yet for all his power, he lived a sunless, joyless, half-lunatic life in those same hideaways, a virtual prisoner walled in by his own crippling fears and weaknesses. Once a dashing, vibrant figure, he neglected his appearance and health during his last 15 years until he became a pathetic wraith...
...Buckley, if you must, please use all of my letter in your petty, joyless, losing campaign. David W. Oaks...
...starts by passing around for mutual approbation photos of his dead fiancee. As a catalytic agent full of "power of positive thinking" jargon, he soon reduces everyone either to tears or hysterics. Unwittingly, he unmasks torpedoed marriages, a joyless adulteress (Cheryl Kennedy), blasted careers, lacecurtain carnage. When Colin, played with demonic dexterity by Richard Briers, finally leaves, one of the survivors utters a suburban epitaph: "Nice to sit with your friends now and again. Nice...