"All of the items that are joyless are piling up into what we are calling the joyless avalanche," Shinn said.
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" AV Club called it "joyless, artless, and maybe soulless.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a joyless slog.
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There's a stereotype that all feminists are kind of joyless.
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With her as chatelaine, State House became stifling and joyless.
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Some say they are joyless, others that they fear humiliation.
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Sex had one purpose: procreation, the joyless act of breeding.
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The sesh is punk for the politically adrift; hedonism for joyless.
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He stared straight ahead, his mien as joyless as a gulag.
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This makes Boston's "Sweet Caroline" gimmick look extremely pitiful and joyless.
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For, like the Soviet Union itself, they are drab, joyless places.
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Those Berserk Bernie and Joyless Jeb cards won't be around for long.
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The original Watch Dogs was a joyless game starring a miserable character.
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And lastly, let's speak to the claim that this film is joyless.
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Chicago felt gray and joyless, but San Francisco is vibrant and alive.
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But this is an oddly joyless work and an often inhuman one.
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But Mr. Williams was careful not to make a dour, joyless record.
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"It may have been the most joyless World Series ever," Edes said.
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Look around your joyless open-plan office space on a Friday afternoon.
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Yet throughout the joyless day, the news brought scattered intimations of hope.
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One of the reviews I think called it a joyless three-way.
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And it's perfectly within my rights to call you a joyless bum.
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"This is actually joyless," says the director, throwing up his hands in resignation.
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Ken Fisher, a fund manager, has called it the "most joyless" in history.
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You're not alone in thinking your Twitter timeline is a joyless, cluttered place.
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In the other corner is Gotham, the haunted, joyless world of Bruce Wayne.
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She was intensely lonely and seemed trapped in a restricted, relatively joyless existence.
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Monday Night Raw has been a mostly listless, joyless affair for weeks now.
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But today, "the culture at large is a more joyless culture," she said.
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This work is often thankless, but it does not seem to be joyless.
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Post-hardcore bands have always been described in ways that make them sound joyless.
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I'm well aware that this perspective probably makes me some kind of joyless spoilsport.
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A publicist is a joyless and disembodied gatekeeper, unfamiliar with you or your publication.
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The Knicks by contrast offered an experiment in free-form, do-anything, joyless chaos.
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Still, Mr. Johnson's single-mindedness has unexpectedly made his campaign a somewhat joyless affair.
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Those stupidly joyless Virgin Media vessels that've been named Van Diesel and Julie Vandrews.
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Unfortunately, though hardly unexpectedly, DeLillo's latest novel continues this streak of stark, monastically joyless novels.
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For all the new gloss, Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life is mostly joyless.
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In 2019, many of us look at the internet and see a desolate, joyless wasteland.
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Even small A.I. breakthroughs, the show suggests, will make life a joyless panoptic lab experiment.
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After a series of joyless stopwatch runs, I decided I needed a new fitness goal.
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NEW DELHI — The monsoon rice paddies of southern India can be places of joyless toil.
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This scenario is punctuated by fantasies, including a joyless orgy featuring his multiple love interests.
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No baby pictures here, of the sort that adorn joyless waiting rooms at traditional fertility clinics.
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Lackluster, I think it was like, "We feel for you, but ..." Meredith Whittaker: It was joyless.
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A related idea, also religious in its origins, is that joyless work somehow completes a person.
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In Kingsglaive it's the opposite: the characters take a backseat to a dense, joyless political struggle.
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Being compelled by journalistic obligation rather than insatiable teenage hormones made the session a rather joyless affair.
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Let's put it this way: I haven't had an experience this joyless since giving my first handjob.
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For some inexplicable reason, not quite clear to me even now, I tolerated this peculiar, joyless relationship.
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They said it was "basically, disgusting" and "reprehensible" (The New Yorker) and "a joyless, soulless slog" (Slate).
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What kind of redemption, or rebirth, is this, in which the participants appear joyless if not coerced?
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On being assured that it was, and that it nonetheless remained stubbornly joyless, Tanton looked taken aback.
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Watching C.K. live was joyless because I already knew then what we know now: He isn't an exception.
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A miserable, joyless conformity as the new Puritans impose their intolerant, bigoted, narrow-minded worldview on everybody else.
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Although the execution is different, the experience isn't unlike the truly joyless mobile game Hillary released last month.
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You don't know how joyless games can be until you've been a novice freelancer working that reviews hustle.
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It's a moreish substance for boorish sods, a grindingly joyless way to waste fifty quid and a weekend.
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The drive into the town of Hajin, which Syrian forces cleared 20 days ago, is a joyless trip.
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The public's rejection of Trump finds an echo in our treatment of the joyless men of Foxboro, Massachusetts.
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Clinton's: The woman they saw bore little resemblance to the cold, joyless drone they'd been told to expect.
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A publicist is a joyless and disembodied gatekeeper, unfamiliar with you or your publication but "looping in" others.
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Spending time browsing here was among my most dismal shopping experiences in recent memory: joyless, arbitrary, spiritually empty.
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For fun, of the joyless kind, he goes to a bar, gets drunk, and fights with other customers.
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It seemed a joyless victory, which was only ever, at its root, about keeping the Tories in power.
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They see that technology serves relentless efficiency, and somewhere in that efficiency life gets joyless and existence precarious.
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A show that fashions itself as a deliberately joyless experience doesn't make a person want to watch it.
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" In another, she describes an awkward, attempted sexual encounter with the writer Arthur Koestler as a "miserable, joyless episode.
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"This is a joyless convention," said Mike Murphy, a senior adviser to one of Mr. Trump's rivals, Jeb Bush.
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"So good!!" he writes, as if an extra exclamation point can distract from this otherwise joyless calorie delivery system.
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But it's also remarkable for how joyless it appears to be: nobody in Occupied seems to be having fun.
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If it was all just run-of-the-mill multiplex stuff, it would be a joyless and draining industry.
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Considering how often progressives are portrayed as joyless scolds, this is a message that needs to get out more.
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But if you're sitting around judging musicians by the B+ moments in their careers, then you're a joyless shmuck.
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But still, its added conveniences turn what's normally a joyless gadget into something for which I'll gladly make room.
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Its characters are miscalculated — Batman isn't analytical, Superman is too grim and joyless, and Lex Luthor is just junk.
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Whoever thought that Carl Andre's joyless, hug-the-floor sculpture was the logical culmination of Brancusi got it wrong.
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Their lives together became joyless as their raison d'etre crystallized into survival in America and caring for my well-being.
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Lack of coherence doesn't make the film joyless, however, and Smith does give his actors a stage to shine on.
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In the 10 years since they did not get engaged, he and Rory have kept up their joyless sexual relationship.
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"Manifest," on the other hand, makes the least interesting choice possible and decides to be a generic, joyless cop show.
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But last season was oddly joyless for many of the players, who acknowledged this as they reported to spring training.
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How did the guy who coined one of the 1990s' most literal punchlines take such a joyless, decade-long detour?
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The spinach chutney is a little joyless, but the inky purée of eggplant sweetened with dates is a terrific idea.
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Once, when I praised some handmades at a store, she told me that she found my worldview joyless and bleak.
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Before long there were new computers arriving in classrooms and plans in place for an overhaul of their joyless schoolyard.
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The Pet Shop Boys sound like being stuck in the same cycle of shit for the rest of your joyless life.
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Videoconferencing is frustrating, joyless, and tedious, but Google has somehow come up with a way to make it even worse: drones.
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Only the joyless technocrats at the European Commission are standing in the way of a full return to disco-era dirigisme.
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Do we need another melancholy drama about the media in a landscape post-The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin's similarly joyless HBO series?
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I certainly prefer the electroclash trash of current Taylor Swift to the "true" airtight and joyless craftwork that made her famous.
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Where you wear each other down, in joyless friction over whose way is the right way, till one of you caves?
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Ms. Asif talked about the strengths of women, and how a man's life — and home — would be joyless without a wife.
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But unless you know what you are looking at, it may seem a joyless holiday of brown fairways and bland sport.
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Have years of watching the same premises turned me into a joyless grump, the way critics are always portrayed in movies?
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Jonigkeit is just so joyless that it's almost impossible to understand why everyone around Matt keeps telling him he could do better.
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Is the train a metaphor for the inevitable and joyless conventions of a life lived according to the rules of the 1950s?
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So Pence had the joyless task of both defending Trump and making his views seem more palatable to undecided and conservative voters.
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At one minute shy of two hours, the film is far too long and indulgent; the narrative is a meandering, joyless mess.
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Night caps: - Adora's tendency to make her daughter feel unloved deviates from her own strained and joyless relationship with her mother, Joya.
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Nibblers are by far the most dead-eyed of eaters, more interested in the joyless mechanics of eating than the food itself.
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What a joyless world it would be, and how many fewer conservators there would be, she said, "if designers didn't take risks."
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But nearly everything else about Denis Villeneuve's latest (a rare miss for him, amidst a sterling track record) was a joyless slog.
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And then you have a large field of secondary contenders who are either too young, too obscure, too joyless, or too doctrinaire.
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In jail he realized that Turkey had become a divided and joyless place, but he said he believed Turks would change that.
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All-consuming, unironic fandom during those formative teen years was self-preservation, the ability to access joy during an otherwise joyless time.
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Not only is so-called "tiger parenting" a recipe for a joyless childhood—it is detrimental to a youngster's chances of later success.
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Rotating the dial is a joyless experience, lacking any kind of friction or tactile feedback... but you can't expect more at this price.
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Yet, rather than thrilling to the promise of taking the White House or of electing America's first woman president, many Democrats seem joyless.
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I've talked to several former Clinton and Obama White House aides who don't enjoy checking in with the joyless Clinton campaign in Brooklyn.
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She has become a fragile, joyless woman who retreats to her uncle's house both to stew over and hide from her own disappointments.
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Horne and Corden were followed by Lesbian Vampire Killers, a genuinely joyless film that was described as "badly written" by the Daily Express.
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Janelle had never seen a face so utterly joyless and in her anger, she felt also a pitying contempt and a contemptuous pity.
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Set in London in the early 1920s before Woolf was widely known, the movie feels muted and joyless and almost suffocatingly well-appointed.
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Antic, joyless and sloppy, "Wilson" tries to provoke and beguile you, but the best you can manage is to feel sorry for it.
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Set in London in the early 1920s before Woolf was widely known, the movie feels muted and joyless and almost suffocatingly well-appointed.
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It's a theme he sees underscoring his life and work, in which he positions himself as a counterbalance to joyless and conservative tendencies.
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There is too much on stake in the world right now for me to really enjoy fantasies of perfection or grimy, joyless simulations.
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But it wasn't all a joyless slog, there were some decent finishes, some slick transitions, some neat set ups, and a few good scraps.
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According to those who have left the FLDS, Short Creek became a joyless theocracy where children grew up without Christmas, toys, games or pets.
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TAIWAN and China, which claims the independent island-nation as part of the motherland, used to play a joyless slogging game called "dollar diplomacy".
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When he reaches the words " freudenlose Welt " ("joyless world"), a slight roughness intrudes, as if he had lost faith in the illusion of song.
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When Marianne is not with Connell, she seeks out joyless sexual relationships where she, too, asks men to do whatever they want to her.
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"The old way of thinking pitting those obsessed with high-powered cars ... against joyless anti-car ecologists has been overtaken by reality," he said.
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The real Churchill, sometimes to his chagrin, was painted to look much like a joyless bulldog, with squinted eyes and a protruding lower lip.
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The issue of consensual yet joyless and unsatisfying sex was the same one my mom and her friends were grappling with 50 years ago.
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So many of their last 82 games were billed as uncharacteristically joyless, but Golden State is 32-6 in the playoffs since adding Durant.
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I'd say the lives of young men can be improved more through loving attachment than through Peterson's joyless and graceless calls to self-sacrifice.
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The reality seems like a joyless, grim succession of never-ending, late-night shuttling between motels and hotels while shuffling through online escort accounts.
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If you think institutional critique is a joyless enterprise, two heart-stopping shows by this Cypriot artist reveal the romance in mining the museum.
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Absent cape and crown and royal retinue, he will wander the earth in search of those joyless cavities still crying out for their king.
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Corpse Fortress is a wonderfully joyless slog through zombie hell; its 11 depraved tracks crawl on bloody stumps, and lurch along with claws outstretched.
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But she has long presented an alternative to the often joyless training environment that has become associated with the elite levels of the sport.
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Even as more and more Americans purchased more and more exceptional TVs at award-winning prices, joyless TV-resistance armies boldly conquered real psychological ground.
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It defies stereotype: Vegan food in America is supposed to be joyless and unfulfilling, seasoned only with the fermented tang of the moral high ground.
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The dark forest of the tale is a farm in rural Indiana, where a little family in a humble dwelling leads a joyless, threadbare life.
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It was short and goofy and most of all it looked like fun, in contrast to the largely joyless and desultory intros that preceded it.
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The Celtics arrived for their game against the Warriors having lost five of their last six games, and their locker room was a joyless place.
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Browsing Netflix is a joyless slog and despite the presence of micro-genres like "cerebral visually striking romantic comedies," Netflix's lists always look repetitive to me.
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If there is any feeling to be found in the joyless brick of human knowledge that we call the smartphone, certainly, it lives in our punctuation.
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A number of joyless, idiotic, despicable humans were somehow peeved by this, and called REDaction all sorts of names for spending money on banners of dogs.
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And if you don't like Haim (even if you pretend not to like them, you still like them really), your life must be a joyless place.
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The first trailer for The Lego Batman Movie is here, and it already promises to be better than the joyless Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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"It's the kind of swath-yourself-in-bubble-wrap thinking that has turned modern pregnancy into a nine-month slog of joyless paranoia," Ruth Graham writes.
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Even in spite of Donald Trump's ignorant, spittle-flecked outbursts and its own bloody history, it's known as one of the more rational—if joyless—superpowers.
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Many had spent much more time in that joyless warren of endless hallways that reeked of disinfectant and dread, and they put me in my place.
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I'd conceived our ascetic desert romp not out of some joyless parental imperiousness, but because in California's great nothingness I saw a path into the sublime.
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The 2012 presidential elections, a joyless slog, saw President Barack Obama traduce the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney as a heartless plutocrat and thus "not one of us".
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T'Challa is principled and handsome but joyless and lacks the humanity that makes Iron Man, War Machine, the Falcon, and the other likable characters fun to watch.
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They try to take the fun and ... You know, I'm a Patriots fan and Bill Belichick is the most colorless, joyless, sort of looks like this monolith.
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Despite Vita and Virginia's real-life passion, "the movie feels muted and joyless and almost suffocatingly well-appointed," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The Times.
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Their upbeat songs, however, land with a joyless thud, beholden to excessive notions about how hard the drums must hit and how gritty the guitars must sound.
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"It's the kind of swath-yourself-in-bubble-wrap thinking that has turned modern pregnancy into a nine-month slog of joyless paranoia," Ruth Graham wrote in Slate.
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Elsewhere in Europe, democracy often seems a joyless transaction in which voters are asked to endorse politicians' empty promises in exchange for benefit cuts and shoddy public services.
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And so we come to the awaited guest, the Crow in the ointment, the joyless laying-to-rest of all our year's anxiety, the rebirth of Jon Snow.
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While his time at Real was defined by media sniping, megalomaniacal egos and the incessant booing of their joyless fans, he's been welcomed in Newcastle with open arms.
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" Amazon's Soho pop-up: "Spending time browsing here was among my most dismal shopping experiences in recent memory," the Times's Critical Shopper columnist writes: "joyless, arbitrary, spiritually empty.
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They're all like that: rote recitations of policy wish lists coupled with some sunny patriotism and broken up by joyless applause breaks from the assembled members of Congress.
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But I can report that they fully demonstrate that many humans are simply terrible, joyless creatures who won't let the rest of us enjoy something for five goddamn seconds.
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"It could be seen as being a sort of a little bit of a joyless moment in time and it's good to remember what's lovely in life," she said.
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Littlefinger seems like the obvious choice — she appeared pretty joyless about it and we already know he has the knights of the Vale queued up and ready to ride.
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When a large chunk of today's charts are made up of joyless minimal covers of former dancefloor bangers, it can sometimes feel like pop music has lost its vibrancy.
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Call it superficial, call it shallow, but the candidates who carried onto the stage a joyless chip on their shoulder, didn't fare as well as their happy warrior counterparts.
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In the 40 years that have passed since James published his first treatise on baseball statistics, the debate between the quants and the traditionalists has been dour and joyless.
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In photographs, the couple resembled each other, with soft faces, sulky mouths; they looked like bad, beautiful children — and behaved with joyless destructiveness, smashing up everything in arm's reach.
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For all the progress humanity has made since Odysseus had a spot of trouble on a long voyage home, life on the high seas remains a largely joyless affair.
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So, after one too many joyless blurs, I decided that the holiday just wasn't for me, that New Year's would never, as the Kondo-hive would say, spark joy.
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Offred, in fact, is a simple, proprietary conflation — "of Fred," the name of the so-called Commander (Joseph Fiennes) in whose dark, joyless, spotless home she has now been placed.
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In my New York City bubble, the walk to the subway was agonizing and joyless, the sky dark gray, as if the sun had tried to come up and failed.
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A soulless virtual version of Chicago was the joyless playground for an investigation into human trafficking and computer hackers, the player controlling the growling drone of Aiden "The Vigilante" Pearce.
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The story's actual big bad, Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon) is shown having violent, joyless sex with his wife, who mostly acts as a housewife and sounding board for his goals.
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From the joyless frenzy of its opening number — which rhymes "velvet rope" with "grind and grope" — "This Ain't No Disco" wears its retributive grimness like a suffocating, Lycra spandex shroud.
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And it's the worst of the bunch, a continuation of the franchise's swan dive into joyless mediocrity, while managing to destroy any affection one might have for Marvel's merry mutants.
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Shapeless but economically cut (excess fabric is obscene in dystopian futures), these jumpsuits were practical, joyless, and always came in the sort of dull colors you might find in melted garbage.
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But it will soon be a joyless husk where you get to pick either burger or lobster from a menu, just like you can at 21 other locations in the city.
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These open-world games are set in non-challenging power fantasies (Saints Row), alternate histories broadly stripped of complexity (Assassin's Creed), or cynical parodies of joyless violent assholes (Grand Theft Auto).
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I've left out The Christmas Chronicles, a more polished, family Christmas outing that somehow manages to feel bland and joyless by comparison, offering a too-current Santa played by Kurt Russell.
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Trump won because he was a "happy warrior" with a clear economic message while Clinton was "one of the most joyless candidates in history," who only knew how to attack Trump.
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It starred Harrison Ford as Deckard, a cop who hunted down rogue replicants across Los Angeles—a joyless Babel, blitzed by neon glare and lashed by the whip of dirty rain.
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Unfrozen, confined and isolated on their little platforms, the workers move frequently in unison, a joyless expending of energy that would be more interesting to watch if it were more varied.
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His imagined London is merely a drabber, more joyless version of the city, still recovering from the Blitz, where he was living in the mid-13s, just before beginning the novel.
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Playing the role of a skeptical theater critic as the joyless foil to the giddy fun inspired by Barnum, Paul Sparks maintains a stern deadpan, the way reviewers in movies do.
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A Saul Williams: Martyr Loser King (Fader) After undermining a decade of honorable leftwing slam-rap with one of the most joyless pop sellouts in the annals of musical poesy (what?
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Paramore's martial drums and jagged guitar slam down with a joyless bluntness that dulls the melody, matching the ardor in Williams's singing and songwriting with textbook examples of a redundant musical correlative.
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But Seattle—if it has its way—will usher in more corporate property managers whose token personal touch might stretch as far as a bowlful of joyless candies at the reception desk.
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In fact, they're probably the worst offenders when it comes to exploiting April Fools' Day for the sake of brand strategy, reducing a fun medieval folk tradition to a joyless marketing exercise.
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If, as it seems to be, the sesh is self-involved nihilism masquerading as one big funny joke, then why not soundtrack it to the brutally joyless strains of Berghain-friendly techno?
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The Musical, settled on one joke per Kardashian and hammered them into joyless goop: Kim is a Kanye robot, Kourtney is boring, Khloe is vulgar and there's something wrong with her vagina.
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Alabama's Nick Saban takes a lot of grief, much of it deserved, for his general joyless uptightness; that said, he wins in part by agonizing over those two plays and 10 seconds.
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Much of this is uncomfortable to behold, as is the joyless carnal encounter between the hero and a reporter (Elisabeth Moss), during which a condom is used in a tug of war.
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It's hard to believe that people are going to be content, year after year, to distort their own personalities in service to a platform, making themselves humorless, semi-blind, joyless and grim.
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Whereas characters like Batman and Superman are standoffish, cynical and act out of a joyless sense of duty, Wonder Woman is warm, believes human beings are inherently good and fights alongside them.
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But it is also, in person, just a tunnel, a particularly joyless and grim passageway even by New York City subway standards, wrapped by the sprawling Times Square station above and below.
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Matt Damon is too much of a ringer, too on top of his game to screw this up — he's got the Jason Bourne template on lock, no matter how joyless that may be.
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She came over to my place one night shortly after Satyr launched, and after a few minutes of mechanical, joyless fucking, she stopped and pushed me off her and reached for her phone.
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There's no starry cast announcement on the horizon that promises to spoil the fun; there's no joyless writing in the distance that'll make you ashamed for watching the show in the first place.
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Clinton's carefully choreographed appearances and her somewhat halting speeches and TV interviews over the course of the long — and sometimes seemingly joyless — campaign, but donors this summer have glimpsed an entirely different person.
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Locksley explained Thursday that Saban's famed "process," which insists on almost inhuman consistency and can appear joyless to outsiders, is the perfect tonic for the midcareer coach who may have lost his way.
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In this version, Lizzie Borden is a woman very much under the iron hand of an often bitter, joyless man who has, in addition, just killed all her pet pigeons with a hatchet.
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According to the UN disaster relief organization OCHA, the cost of the most basic, joyless kitchen essentials in Haiti -- rice, wheat flour, maize, beans, sugar and vegetable oil -- jumped 34% this year alone.
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Last week he had to trudge to Albany, one of several joyless trips to the state capital in which the mayor is forced to beg for state aid and control of city schools.
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But even with this pseudo-inspiring ending, The Emoji Movie is the worst thing a movie for children can be: completely joyless, disenchanted, and one very long, condescending advertisement for apps you already use.
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In many respects, the climb has been grudging and joyless, pushed ahead by ultra-low official interest rates and pulled along by corporate borrowing, stock buybacks and the zealous defense of company profit margins.
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" Conway, who served as Trump's campaign manager in the final months of the race, put the blame for the loss squarely on Clinton, whom she called "the most joyless candidate in presidential political history.
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The subsequent angst and outrage will be compounded by a joyless hour or so of laboured attacking from the home team, before Chelsea nab a second on the counter attack in the 92nd minute.
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For his part, the Big Tuna actively rejected flair and fun in favor of a joyless game plan that controlled the clock, limited big plays, and took the ball out of the Bills' hands.
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There are dozens of head coaches knocking around college football who have copied Saban's joyless exterior, C.E.O. mentality, fanatical devotion to detail and buttoned-down professionalism (all the more conspicuous in an "amateur" pastime).
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Instead, the camera panned to a lifeless and joyless group of politicians who looked more like the "Sour Puss Caucus" than a group that received an offer that is overly stacked in their favor.
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Clinton kept pushing, kept trying to smile through what had long since become a joyless, demeaning slog, and still found a moment, on the last day of her campaign, to FaceTime with her granddaughter.
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Flournoy does not know what the future will look like for him, except that he wants to keep playing — and, to a lesser extent, coaching, which was joyless for him after the Leicester debacle.
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At various points in the 300-plus-page book, Will also attends a so-called "Porn Storm," tries to get a sex worker to "stop this life," and frequently drinks himself into a joyless stupor.
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Infamous for his slew of antics, as he attempts to demonstrate maturation, he is as critics have described the 21-year-old, now "joyless" and highly aware of his need to at least express remorse.
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Everything is symmetrical, everybody looks the same, they're joyless, and I think what was important to me with this movie is [that it's] not a critique of that industry or of a region of the country.
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The next week would be a joyless march through meal after meal of "safe" foods, foods that didn't require any mental gymnastics or calorie budgeting but also left my mind, body, and taste buds utterly unimpressed.
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The first — represented by our president-elect, who seems incapable of laughter, and some of his apologists — is the bad kind, embodied by the thirst for profit or by apocalypse fetishism, joyless ideology, and even cruelty.
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Click here to view original GIFBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a joyless movie that had none of the fun that comes with being a superhero flick (I mean, even Batman can have fun between grunts).
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Post Malone, a singer and rapper tangentially connected to the SoundCloud community, rose to the top of the Hot 100 toward the end of 2017 with "rockstar," a song that makes success sound as joyless as possible.
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She sings a joyless rendition of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" at karaoke, then ditches her boyfriend for an older man of dubious intent played by Mark Moses (Duck Phillips of "Mad Men").
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And if you have the energy to be philosophical, you'll start to think about how sad and hopeless such genre flicks are beneath their mechanically energetic surfaces, and how friendless and joyless movieland spies are at heart.
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Now, what was once a strange, joyless cash grab of a rematch looks like the second act of a trilogy, the next part of which will likely take place at 155 pounds per McGregor's post-victory request.
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Consider how deeply pathetic William's arc has been: He spent three joyless decades searching for the center of the maze — had his company, Delos, buy the place for the privilege — and the end is the ultimate anticlimax.
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Last year, I left the joyless blurs behind in favor of a stop at a friend's place where we (don't laugh!!) set intentions for the coming year, followed by a chill semi-party at my boyfriend's apartment.
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Instead, they will now have to watch their team gingerly creep towards mediocrity under David Moyes, after Big Sam elected to become England manager, and so pass the buck on the utterly joyless task of coaching Sunderland.
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Walking Dead definitely isn't exploring any new thematic territory yet in this latter half of Season 7, but at least they cut down on the joyless, relentless brutality, and gave us all a common goal to root for.
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As the seasoned observers of our teacher-training schools know only too well, for over half a century education theorists have decried any attempt to impart knowledge to students as a joyless and misguided exercise in rote learning.
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And yet what I like about her new book, "Grit," is the way she is pulling us away from the narrow, joyless intonations of that word, and pointing us beyond the way many schools are now teaching it.
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While the rest of us are digging into joyless plastic troughs of limp iceberg lettuce salad, Batali is cheerily plucking fresh, ripe produce right from the soil and rendering it into unbelievably delectable Italian dishes in a flash.
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After decades of airless, joyless rule under Mr. al-Bashir, a wave of exuberance has rippled across the capital, Khartoum, where young Sudanese are reveling in newfound freedoms — to talk politics, to party and even to find love.
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The surging immediacy of standout track "No Blood Has Honor" dovetails with its anti-fascist message, raging against joyless ideologues as Grigg howls "Fear consumes / Fear controls / Fear belies your ambition," drawing out the words in a serrated gargle.
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This weekend I'll be digging into "Lady Dynamite," sobbing into the season finale of "Call the Midwife" and going to TV church to light candles and pray that CBS stops making joyless cop shows and sitcoms about hapless dads.
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Unless you're one of those self-conscious couples who schedule in regular joyless sex sessions solely to keep the numbers up, you're going to end up having less sex deep into an LTR than you did when you started.
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A depressed market, $2200 million guaranteed over the next two years, and a new general manager who values character, athleticism, and skill are what led us to the most joyless and fascinating trade (so far) of the NBA offseason.
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Yet even though, for many, this election has felt less like an aspirational journey than a joyless slog, the amount of media attention it's generated has one important benefit to it: Voters are informed about the two main candidates.
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Portrayed with a dedicated and joyless intensity by the film star Keira Knightley in her Broadway debut, she makes her entrance in the play's opening seconds in stern, silhouetted profile, carrying a bowl of water and a heap of bad karma.
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All this dodginess and desperation and headlong joyless competitive thrashing bled in from the edges of the simple, aspirational Jordan fable that had been so successfully sold; the picture darkened, and started to look a little more like what it was.
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"I think that was an important message to send—that if you access veganism or if you decide to live vegan, it is not a joyless existence where you're never gonna have fun with food or anything ever again," he says.
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Requiem is joyless, which fans will say is the point, but the viewer has no reason to feel sorry for any of these pathetic characters, and for someone even passingly familiar with addiction, it's a pretty brutal appraisal of an illness.
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Oklahoma City has done extremely well for itself in the short term; forking Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott, and a second-round pick for someone who just averaged 299 points per game in an increasingly joyless environment is a no-brainer.
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The three-day vote, which ends Wednesday, is shaping up to be a predictably low-watt and joyless affair, the antithesis of the youthful passions driving the Arab Spring in 2011, when Egyptians ousted their longtime ruler, President Hosni Mubarak.
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Until then, "Escape at Dannemora" drills down on the daily grind inside the prison — the joyless sex scenes in a storeroom, the bickering among dangerous men in the cafeteria line, the office politics that govern even a prison tailor shop.
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A procession of its distinctive "turret trucks"—miniature flat-beds driven by standing drivers—made their way from Tsukiji, on the edge of the earthy Shitamachi or Lower Town, a historically working-class area, to Toyosu, a joyless landfill in Tokyo Bay.
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The movie concerns a stuffy, joyless lawyer, played by the great Peter Sellers (fresh off doing brownface in Blake Edwards' The Party), who falls for a disarming hippie (Leigh Taylor-Young) and has a total shift in mindset after eating Toklas' weed brownies.
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Crouse, a Times sportswriter disillusioned by drug-enhanced results and joyless competitions, stumbled on Norwich in the midst of her travels with more or less the same stunned enthusiasm with which Ronald Colman, in the movie "Lost Horizon," stumbles on Shangri-La.
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In fact, that's just what some critics found disturbing: that it was the sort of film that packaged its faults so slickly and buried in so much glitz that you're a joyless party pooper if you try to speak up about it.
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Least known are such late paintings as "Red Shift," in which clashing crimsons and deep pinks create a toxic glow along the horizon of an irradiated landscape, and "Barometer," a rare grisaille that suggests a frozen wasteland of churning seas and joyless snow.
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Magazines declare that the average person will gain at least five pounds during the holidays; then, they explain how you can sidestep this fate with the help of joyless and unrealistic strategies, such as filling up on crudités so you have no room for pie.
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But then I remember the Maya Lin sculpture, or the number of commuters who stopped to offer us help when we seemed lost, or that sad little jazz trio and their sincere effort to bring some culture and refinement to an otherwise joyless place.
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I'm not calling for a retrofitted victimization of Diana, but it is joyless and sad to see her chew Max up and spit him out, and watching Maslany, who plays the part with grim self-sufficiency, I had no idea why Diana even bothered.
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And in a presidency that's so often been joyless and combative, Trump now seems to be having fun — reports claim he was "jovial" at this week's meeting with Democrats, and that he just seems to enjoy spending time with his fellow New Yorker Schumer.
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It was scrappy, ready to make something out of a seemingly minuscule budget — and inevitably so dazzling that you'd have to be an entirely joyless person to tear your eyes away as towering talents like BeBe Zahara Benet and Nina Flowers strutted down Ru's catwalk.
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This sensitive soul, part boy, part fox, has only known the grim confines of Miss Carbunkle's Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures, a joyless place where music is forbidden and the only greenery is the moss growing on the stone wall that surrounds it.
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Even well-intentioned urban, coastal, college-educated scribes commit obliviously condescending word choices ("flyover country"), illogical assumptions (everyone in red states voted for Trump) and variations on poverty porn, in which subjects are conveyed as helpless and joyless ("observe this sorry case in Appalachia").
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But only after we excavated all the clothes from our apartment, arranged them in a three-foot heap on the bed and dragged the joyless castoffs to the nearest Goodwill, did it really dawn on me: This clutter isn't the main source of my stress.
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It's beaten out of players, if not by the morals and standards of the NHL then by joyless, stodgy media types that appear to revel in parroting the cult-like beliefs of players they wish they could be or wish were their real-life friends.
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You can barely say a word about anything remotely contentious these days without some joyless leftist martinet popping off about your words being unsafe, or triggering or culturally appropriated, or whatever the latest Orwellian epithet is about sexism or racism or some other awful ism or phobia.
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However, at 210 years old – when life is reduced to a series of concerns relating solely to your football team, Three21Mafia mixtapes and an inability to chirpse girls properly – a joyless 21-240 home defeat to Wycombe Wanderers is capable of delivering trauma to both heart and head.
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The idea that the perfect wardrobe is one that does away with "decision fatigue" in order to bring us one step closer to finding our inner Mark Zuckerbergs is less convincing when you consider that tech's obsession with efficiency is also responsible for such joyless innovations as Soylent.
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For the type of football fan who wants to see a particular joyless idea of football validated, it was a great night, the kind that begged for the solemn intoning that Defense Wins Championships, before moving on to more excitedly find fault with how the losers expressed disappointment.
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What's more, Bernie Sanders, America's Democratic Socialist grandpa, frequently leads popularity polls for politicians, and the pat conservative response to socialism, "Yeah, but Stalin!" doesn't work like it once did, as kids these days may be less prone to associate socialism with the drab, joyless Soviet Union and its bastard stepchildren.
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Here the joyless white dude "underdog" murdering everything in his path with minimal justification is replaced by a black man getting revenge on the embodiments of a history of injustices (and then Lincoln Clay drives over a pedestrian, kills a stranger, or shoots the face off the 700th foot soldier).
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Gone were the breaking voice and the joyless countenance, in the past were the tears and debilitating despair, replaced by the morning talk-show brightness of a woman declaring to the world with a clear head that her rebirth has come just in time for the end of her career.
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I have driven west to see her from the "Experimental Living Cabins," set on 21884 acres a 40-minute drive away in Wonder Valley, a desolate, unincorporated corner of the Mojave Desert, near the joyless sprawl of Twentynine Palms, home to one of the largest military training areas in the country.
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Virginia Sole-Smith, a journalist and author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America, explains the chronology like this: On the one hand, you have people frustrated with "the Jenny Craig calorie counting model," because it's hard and joyless and, in the long term, rarely seemed to work.
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Her press-ducking, donor-massaging, risk-averse, joyless slog to November feels less like an old-fashioned front porch campaign than a campaign conducted from a corner mansion's upstairs window, with the plebeians allowed to shout questions from the distant sidewalk and the candidate's retainers ready to pull the sash at any time.
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After their 12-hour date together, Frank spends a year with a joyless bore who hates jokes and chicken tikka masala, while Amy gets stuck with a bro who insists on fucking the first night ("it's better that way"), then slowly drifts from him after they realize their time is running short.
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The words "tray bake" usually summon the image of one of those desperate tin squares of joyless brown cake, pulled out of an orange carrier bag under your colleague's desk, just seconds before everyone in the office breaks into a round of "Happy Birthday" beside a stack of photocopier paper and two abandoned keyboards.
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"Bar" is actually quite a vague, wide-ranging term used to describe everything from the sticky, neon 99p-a-mixer fuckpits where most British teenagers experience their first pangs of fake ID freedom, to the joyless payday venues full of pension-ready office workers filling the abyss in their souls with xenophobic ale every Friday night.
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He writes with a brusque charm, training his eye toward features of the league that many longtime observers might take for granted or condition themselves to ignore: the glad-handing between joyless, high-profile reporters and secretive team intermediaries; the personal assistants who chase after the superstars' toddlers; the powerful league officials whose names no fans know.
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In The Favourite, she entraps Emma Stone's character in a lifetime of joyless servitude under the guise of devoted companionship; here, she plays a less sadistic but no less harmful game with her son, whom she sends away in order to prevent a marriage she does not desire, and in doing so breaks his heart and his spirit.
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I know it's not like "cool" or whatever to drop some obvious pop tune in the middle of a mixtape without even beat-matching it, but anyone who doesn't think "Chains of Love" is the banger to end all bangers is a joyless grouch who probably wouldn't like me anyway so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Tell mw a bit about the new Cool Ranch label.
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Three years ago, as I interviewed a noted European pro who competed in both games, he finally leveled about how joyless StarCraft 2 could be for someone who had come to it from Brood War: It was a complaint I'd made myself, and heard often among more casual players, but it was startling to hear it from someone who played the game professionally.
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In contrast to, say, the joyless recent remakes of The Day the Earth Stood Still and Total Recall — both of which seem to have been made simply for the sake of rolling out a new film with a familiar name — successful cinematic updates tend to be driven by exceptional filmmakers and strong visions more than by the legacy of the original properties.
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Putting aside the fact that it is a joyless creeper full of awkward bars that name-check Filet-o-Fish sandwiches, it is kinda wacky to hear a 45-year-old man who is still one of the best-selling rappers in the world shoehorn references to sci-fi parasites ("Became a Symbiote, so / My fangs are in your throat, ho" quoth Em, cringily).
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Activities include mandatory attendance at baroquely conceived yet joyless song-and-dance sessions led by the hotel's matronly manager (Olivia Colman) and her rotund husband (Garry Mountaine); or, more disturbingly, group outings to the Forest to hunt down Loners, a secret society of hotel escapees that fetishizes singledom—"No sex, or flirting," admonishes their severe leader (Léa Seydoux)—as much as the City endorses traditional domestic pairings.
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The two shaggy dudes behind the racket, Chip King and Lee Buford, are really good at pulling incredibly bleak, dystopian-lite album titles out of their combined asses; they've brought you such suffocating hits as I Will Die Here and The Cold, Suffocating Dark Goes on Forever and We Are Alone, and joyless collaborations like Nothing Passes and You, Whom I Have Always Hated.
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STIGMATA An atheist is possessed by the spirit of a dissident Catholic priest and begins displaying the miraculous wounds of Christ on her body while also reciting the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas in the original Aramaic words of Jesus, which discloses that Catholicism is fake and that rigid, joyless, sola scriptura Protestant mysticism is the true road to salvation that the Pope has concealed for thousands of years.
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As the country brings the curtain down Sunday on what has been a largely joyless 10 days of action, the reasons for Qatar's battle to secure the 17th edition of the International Association of Athletics Federations' top event remains somewhat mysterious, even if the event has helped the country become better known in some small way, at least to fans of track and field, and give it something akin to bragging rights over its rival emirates.
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In fact, the replies were so vicious that REDaction felt the need to clarify the painfully obvious: Obviously, this is just a bit of fun, and we suggest that nobody takes this subject TOO seriously, so spare me the usual joyless bastards No one is suggesting this will make Alexis sign a new contract and stay at Arsenal, that is just ridiculous, so just enjoy the Banners I've scrolled through the replies to the above tweets and won't share any of them here.
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Consider the narratives that are touchstones for this part of the discussion — the New Yorker bad-sex short story "Cat Person" and the controversial first-person account of being not-raped by Aziz Ansari (jointly described by one Twitter jester as an "ethnography of the degree to which millennial sex is a joyless mimetic spamming of half-remembered porn tropes"), as well as more sociological accounts of the ubiquity of female sexual unhappiness and pain (especially from that porn standby, anal sex).
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Photo: Getty ImagesSoylent, the powder-based "food product" slash "meal replacement" that became all the rage for joyless Silicon Valley employees in recent years, will soon be offered in Walmart stores across the US.Per the Verge, Soylent's maker Rosa Foods announced on Wednesday that it is bringing the signature brand of packaged, flavored sludge—which takes its name from the disheartening 1973 dystopian film Soylent Green, where it's eventually revealed the product's key ingredient is uh, "long pig"—to 450 Walmart stores across the country.
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The choices are legion: Judi Dench gliding in as Old Deuteronomy, a Yoda-esque fluff ball with a huge ruff who brings to mind the Cowardly Lion en route to a drag ball as Queen Elizabeth I; the tap dancing Skimbleshanks (Steven McRae), dressed, unlike most of the furries — in red pants and suspenders, no less — leading a Pied Piper parade; or Taylor Swift, as Bombalurina, executing a joyless burlesque shimmy after descending on the scene astride a crescent moon that ejaculates iridescent catnip.
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