cheerlessness

Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness before her!

Not even the mustard-colored walls could save the place from cheerlessness.

They looked in at the open door and snorted at the cheerlessness of the place.

I, for one, found no joy in the work, colored as it was by his cheerlessness and dispassionate industry.

I was struck by the cheerlessness of it, but she did not seem to notice anything, and made me sit down in a shabby armchair.

But the cheerlessness apparent in his face and voice related mainly to his own misfortune.

The country cabin has the cheerlessness of an army encampment before the age of electricity.

It remains large in tone, varied but predominantly dark in color, and earnest, sometimes to the point of cheerlessness.

Despite its lumpy cheerlessness, "The Family Man" squeezes out a few laughs.

Three altogether greyer people stood, in an east wind, in the giant cheerlessness of the landing shed.

He effused a dismal cheerlessness that reminded Ferracini of the farmer depicted in American Gothic.

They released their first eponymous album in 1976 and gained some attention with the song Cheerlessness displaying Marc's high pitch voice and Albert's heady keyboard line.

After the silence and the cheerlessness of life in the Bentley house, she dreamed of stepping forth into an atmosphere that was warm and pulsating with life and reality.

Unlike in Congressional corridors and across the civilian landscape of the country, there seems far more support than outrage, more cheer than cheerlessness, and a hope that maybe this will do it.

'The inhabitants of Adamah are also the descendants of Adam, because Adam complained of the cheerlessness of Erez.

The lawyers had told her vaguely that a woman from the village came in to clean - but she had quite expected to find the furniture shrouded in dust-sheets, and a general air of cheerlessness such as is usually associated with empty houses.

As directed by John Tillinger in a Manhattan Theater Club production, Mr. Ayckbourn's classic farce of marital misery and Christmas cheerlessness, a hit on Broadway in the mid-1970's, doesn't exactly make the heart beat faster.

It's as if its cheerlessness had been bottled straight, without the additive that transforms recognizable experience into art . . . In every respect, the screenplay is a vast improvement over Gilroy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Subject Was Roses.

Broadway 'ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR' An uninspired revival of Alan Ayckbourn's classic farce of marital misery and Christmas cheerlessness, directed by John Tillinger.

Even the sun, falling warmly on his neck and drawing up vapour wraiths from the stagnant pools, could not dispel the cheerlessness of the scene: a handful of metal dinosaurs on the move, strange silhouettes obscuring themselves in clouds of dust and blue exhaust smoke.

Whether it was at that moment in the stuffy oil-and-metal smelling obscurity of the van, or whether it was later, in the shabby cheerlessness of the detention cell at PAHQ that Horne suddenly found himself a different man, he was never sure.

Then I went back to my hotel, a place of deep and depressing cheerlessness, with nylon sheets and cold radiators, went to bed and read by the light of a 7-watt bulb and made a small, heartfelt vow never to return to Lulworth so long as I might live.