Word: joylessness
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...Rouault was apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, and his prints, like his paintings, look rather like sketches for stained glass. Joyless though most of them are, they have a little of the power and glory of the first and greatest Gothic cathedral windows...
...never married, had only one important love affair: with Louise Colet, a literary beauty with considerable experience as the mistress of authors. A large part of the affair, for Flaubert, seems to have consisted in writing her dismally joyless letters: "Maybe it is my heart that is impotent. This deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my own doubts." He kept going back to the theme: "I have never been able to give myself up to love; there is something so ridiculous about it. Sometimes I have wanted to please some woman, but I have been...
...figures Giacometti carves and paints are inevitably fragile and lonely looking; they seem to represent all that is joyless in the human lot. Stretched to the breaking point, they dominate more space than they fill, and this is their sole dignity. But Giacometti's own dignity and sincerity go unquestioned in Paris. His artist-friends generally revere him, spend long nights debating his methods as well as his elusive...
...poems, novels, short stories-some masterly, some amateurish. He pursued an erratic career as reporter and war correspondent. He made punishing journeys to wars and insurrections, and he acquired a Bohemian notoriety that reads like a composite of Poe and De Quincey. A rebellious spirit, he took a peculiarly joyless pleasure in scandalizing the age. A groundless charge of drug addiction provoked a characteristic response: he concocted a piece on the opium habit...
Sets rayless-joyless-quenched in cold decay...