No wonder their business is so often done in joyless basements and choked corridors.
Richard Bruton, finance spokesman for the opposition Fine Gael party, called the budget "jobless and joyless".
At times, Jackson seems tired, but he never comes off as unprofessional, joyless, or detached.
Though they are reluctant to trumpet the fact, all the region's governments have started that joyless task.
Donaldson, whose transactions with her husband in this regard were a joyless matter, is not especially interested.
By late 2002, however, the Cryptic game was 18 months behind schedule, plagued with ineffective code and joyless, fussy play.
No one should ever forget how hard it is to find success when life itself seems a joyless chore to be endured.
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Much of the movie unfolds as a kind of anesthetized road trip, with ordinary life and the fact of death barely intruding upon their joyless adventure.
Naima moved soundlessly, cleaning the indifferent surfaces, preparing our joyless meals.
If you are worn down by the cold enthusiasm of professional sports, the joyless grind through the schedule and the perfunctory fist-bumps of millionaires, here is a team unafraid to let their personalities slip through, and let a game feel like a game.
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Their examples of fulfilment and violence contend with more traditional ones, like that of his father, a widower who spends his life in joyless service to the state and retires to an ashram in the former French colony of Pondicherry, there to renounce the snares of this world.
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