Word: joylessly
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...called a Gump, which looks suspiciously like your basic moosehead. They are all mechanical marvels, not actors, which means they can do anything except win an audience's heart. Still, it would defy the gifts of an Olivier to find interesting, amusing life in a context as charmless and joyless (and songless) as the one Murch and his design team have concocted. -By Richard Schickel...
...these details emerged, of course, from nothing more than personal reminiscences of Pedro. Still, the accounts of different witnesses did overlap in many details, all portraying an old man passing a somewhat joyless life of solitary introspection. "Given that many of the witnesses are virtually illiterate peasants," said Superintendent Tuma, "it is extremely unlikely they are participants in an elaborate international conspiracy...
...concentration requirements, no joy in a well-written blue book or even a good grade. The rejection came all the more easily in the obnoxious prep-school atmosphere of Harvard in those days, from the sherries, proctors and parietal halls to the ceat and tie dinners and the joyless Anglo-Saxon outline...
...Williams in 1969, long after the end of the fraternity system, and when we spent some time there at various events, we found the change obvious and distressing. The college had become a think tank, grades were everything, and worst of all the students appered to be a joyless lot indeed...
...these two were not so smashing, someone might have wondered what a prom was doing in the middle of the Olympics, or whether there would be a cotillion at the Summer Games. Their lovely exhibition upstaged much of the serious skating ahead and showed how joyless that can be. Not the usual word applied to Scott Hamilton, 25, a happy little dynamo who looks as though he fell off a charm bracelet. Yet it fitted even him. He won the gold medal, but with a wistful shrug said he always imagined it would be "more special." A miscalculation, evidently, involving...