Word: joylessly
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...event in French politics from the occurrence of any other. The confusion is recapitulated in these lines at the end of the second scene with which Hippolito announces his incestuous designs on his niece Isabella: "The worst can be but death and let it come:/He that lives joyless, every day's his doom...
...Joyless Round. Osborne began his career in fury at a social structure that seemed to bar men like him from wealth, privilege and social status. He now sounds like a Tory arriviste for whom all the champagne has proved to be flat. Both plays focus on the narcissistic aristocrats of theater and film...
These are people who have achieved everything except their hearts' desires. They are caught in the joyless round of choosing the top hotel to stay at, the finest restaurant to dine in, the most delectable partner to sleep with. Boredom infects their days and nights, and drink is their anodyne...
Most good journalists sooner or later find a beat that pleases them above all others. Joan Didion's territory is a bleak and joyless neverland located somewhere between Despond and Nostalgia. Under her melancholy eye, even the most familiar people and places take on an air of tragedy. Things seem to be falling apart, and the atmosphere is mournfully laden with unrealized dreams and memories of lost innocence...
...Step, Out of Date. Baldwin manages his set pieces well: a Harlem church service, the white world's Hollywood movies as seen through black eyes, a ghetto tenement flat on Saturday night. But the heterosexual love scenes are dry, joyless and dread-inducing, while some of the writing plays with trite truisms ("If you are depending on a guy for your life, you don't really much care what color he is"). The penultimate scene, in which the Negro star plays host to Barbara's white old-Kentucky-home family, seems to have been lifted...