This does not mean our worship must be joyless, solemn and somber.
Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
One of the many oddities of the current joyless economic recovery is that this traditional enthusiasm is strikingly lacking.
The strong is not without sadness, but instead of turning sadness into strength. The weak is not joyless, but turns happiness into worry.
Failing as entertainment on every conceivable level, Gigli is a joyless watch akin to some kind of endurance test, an affront to the innocent viewer.
Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless and only involved the women of a submerged and despised class.
The jobless now outnumber the joyless-there is nothing like a drop in GDP to remind everyone how much this much-maligned metric matters.
Xiangzi disliked the way this Mr. Xia crept about like a thief, hunched up, his neck pulled in, his eyes on his toes, silent and stingy and joyless. Even seated in the rickshaw, he looked like a skinny monkey.
The subsequent recession fixed that. The jobless now outnumber the joyless—there is nothing like a drop in GDP to remind everyone how much this much-maligned metric matters.
