He pleaded for life; life on the terms most degrading, most painful, most joyless-life ,lifeand that only.

Monday.-Thisis the most joyless day in the whole week; for it can bring me no letter from him.

It was the most joyless celebration compared to what we've seen outside his old homes in Soweto and Houghton.

This was the most joyless excuse for sex I had ever seen: sex separated from mind and spirit, from love or affection.

Some indeed, 'sordid celebutes' for example, seem to exist without love; but it is only a seeming existence, most joyless and imperfect.

It was time to take a more direct route: a box of Aldi Mister Roth Whiskey Truffles, eaten in the most joyless way possible.

I found the Bible, however, the most joyless book of all, Samson being, as I thought, the only man in it who amounted to much.