(1) "Countless generations of girls were sentenced to lives lacking in sexual pleasure or fulfilment and cheerless marriages."
(2) But is the dilemma posed here in this ugly, cheerless Bohemia supposed to be typical?
(3) But for most homeowners, especially those who have come to view their home as a form of pension, the outlook is cheerless.
(4) And of course the authorities are incensed, affirming once again that old adage: there is only one thing more cheerless than a Magi with a severed head – a local bureaucrat armed with zoning laws.
(5) "It was pitiable to see these poor people struggling with their adversity, and to think of the cheerless night they must spend amid their sodden surroundings," the Eastern Daily Press wrote.
(6) Dedicated websites flog dried food, gas masks and other cheerless items.
(7) They are being turned by the companies that run them into soulless, cheerless, pasteurised piazzas, in which plastic policemen harry anyone loitering without intent to shop.
(8) If it is possible to whimper at the volume of a bang, then that is how this decade is ending on the big screen: with two high-profile, high-budget movies about the end of the world: Roland Emmerich's cheerfully silly 2012, and John Hillcoat's cheerlessly serious The Road , which arrive with a good deal of commentary to the effect that these movies typify the zeitgeist of the decade.
(9) Like a rich country fruit cake, Kidnapped is seasoned throughout with handfuls of dialect words, "ain" (one), "bairn" (child), "blae" (cheerless), "chield" (fellow), "drammach" (raw oatmeal), "fash" (bother), "muckle" (big), "siller" (money), "unco" (extremely) , "wheesht!"
(10) The Telegraph, meanwhile, said the film was "a special class of awful" while The Mirror labelled it "cheap and cheerless".
(11) The changes of basic mood, however, which are characteristic of depression, such as cheerlessness and apathy, are the dopamine of antidepressive medication; only these drugs can re-establish the biochemical balance to a large extent.
(12) As the cheerless skies and grim economy sap all will to return to work, take heart that even on a trip to Mars , it is hard to get out of bed in the morning.
(13) And will amateur property developers, who, thanks to Sarah Beeny and Kirstie Allsopp's television programmes, have been nurturing nauseating dreams of squeezing vast profits from cheap and cheerless accommodation, come hideously unstuck?
(14) Anyone who doesn't think that if they could just have her in their bedroom at seven o'clock on a Friday night, in control of the white wine, the Elnett and the minicab booking, that life would somehow never be cheerless again?
(15) Let me close with Sir William Osler's metaphor: How common the experience to enter a cold cheerless room in which the fire in the grate has died down, not from lack of coal, not because the coal was not alight, but the bits, large and small, falling away from each other have gradually become dark and cold.
Sunless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dihydroxyacetone-containing sunless or self-tanning topical preparations are enjoying a resurgence of use in recent years.
(2) The surgical masks being distributed across the nation will do almost nothing to protect those living in a sunless smog.