What's the difference between blissless and joyless?
Blissless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of bliss.
Example Sentences:
Joyless
Definition:
(a.) Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fox was famously burned by the British press in 2001, on the release of Intimacy, an odd, joyless film adaptation of several Hanif Kureishi short stories, in which she and Mark Rylance played characters who meet every week to couple on his dirty carpet.
(2) Comparisons with England’s joyless offering in South Africa are simplistic but unavoidable after a 1-1 draw featuring a goalkeeping error to make the jaw drop and a rigid performance lacking spark or imagination from Russia.
(3) He used his talk to criticise the joyless nature of many modern documentaries and said that many film-makers, particularly on the left, had lost their sense of humour.
(4) Almost everyone else is fed up with this joyless, hectoring, endless campaign from Berlin.
(5) She got rather cross with Simon Schama recently for what she saw, in his writings about early Dutch culture, as a faulty sense of Calvinism - "the dear old song of Renaissance Europe" as she calls it - and confronted him on a panel in New York for characterising Calvinists as a bunch of joyless busybodies.
(6) The Germans are joyless capitalists infused with the Protestant work ethic?
(7) It makes schools joyless places.” Doesn’t the emphasis on talk, project work and joy, plus some of Hyman’s other enthusiasms such as “wellbeing”, mean to a return to the reviled 1960s?
(8) Ted's triumphant opening week in the States was accompanied by a profile in the New Yorker magazine that deftly portrayed MacFarlane as a joyless billionaire, trapped by his success and burdened by weird hygiene and dating issues.
(9) His enigmatic, publicity courting music project Wu Lyf had been unmasked as just another four-piece lad band, and he was living in an abandoned Manchester terrace, writing aggressive, joyless songs about the capitalist machine.
(10) The results are both joyless and seemingly endless, as its two-and-a-half-hour running time stretches out like a desert horizon barren of shade or water."
(11) One of them noticed me staring joylessly and looked perturbed.
(12) What he's given them isn't something like the Home Run Chase between McGwire and Sosa, which was retroactively cheapened by later revelations or Barry Bonds' quest to beat Hank Aaron's home run record, which was an utterly joyless pursuit even at the time.
(13) The atmosphere by all accounts is harsh and joyless.
(14) For, ance that five-and-forty's speel'd, See crasy, weary, joyless Eild, Wi' wrinkled face, Comes hostin', hirplin', owre the field, Wi' creepin' pace.
(15) For this, we have ripped the natural world apart, degraded our conditions of life, surrendered our freedoms and prospects of contentment to a compulsive, atomising, joyless hedonism, in which, having consumed all else, we start to prey upon ourselves.
(16) Such clinical features of joylessness, interpersonal aversion, and affective blunting have been considered by Rado and Meehl to represent a neurophysiological deficit in pleasure capacity which they termed anhedonia, but is more aptly characterized by the term hypohedonia.
(17) But what he called "the fight against bad English" is too often understood, thanks to the perversities of his own example, as a philistine and joyless campaign in favour of that shibboleth of dull pedants "plain English".
(18) And so an ever-decreasing spiral of irony ensues, the bottom of which is not only a death knell for social media sarcasm but a joylessness so profound I may have to watch endless mpegs of babies laughing at absolutely nothing to fend off clinical depression.
(19) It was the most joyless celebration compared to what we've seen outside his old homes in Soweto and Houghton."
(20) In a blog post titled " Parents like Amy Chua are the reason why Asian-Americans like me are in therapy ", she called Chua "a narrow-minded, joyless bigot".