(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.
Wintry
Definition:
(a.) Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.
Example Sentences:
(1) That's a high price to pay for one day of cheers on a wintry Wednesday.
(2) On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.
(3) The 30th Sundance film festival kicks off on Thursday in the mountain resort of Park City, Utah, against a backdrop of wintry conditions for the independent motion picture.
(4) Further wintry showers are expected to move south as the week progresses.
(5) Parts of northern England could see wintry showers on Saturday, while on Sunday many parts of the country will see both sunny spells and rain, she said.
(6) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
(7) A big chunk of the US is getting a blast of wintry weather under what Accuweather has called the worst ice storm of the year .
(8) Parts of Britain face continued freezing temperatures from wintry weather that has brought days of disruption to parts of the country.
(9) The north-west of England will be mainly wet with wintry showers through the day, especially on coasts.
(10) Since he became prime minister in 2013, Gunnlaugsson has overseen sensitive negotiations with the creditors of the three big Icelandic banks that collapsed during the 2008 crisis – while knowing, the leaked documents show, that his wife’s offshore company, Wintris Inc, which lost 515m kronur (£2.8m) in the crash, was owed a sizeable sum from their bankruptcies.
(11) The travel chaos ensuedon Sunday as the worst of the wintry showers came to an end across the country and forecasters predicted dry conditions and a partial thaw.
(12) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(13) Power has been restored to about 9,000 homes cut off by the wintry weather in the Peak District, according to Western Power Distribution.
(14) He just made it to the door as we left, standing with difficulty in the wintry sun: no fuss, no self-pity, just an immense courtesy that endured to the end.
(15) A h, the many Proustian pleasures to be derived from a renewed acquaintance with Roy Ward Baker 's 1958 Titanic melodrama A Night To Remember ... Last seen by me on some wintry Sunday afternoon in the prepubescent early 1970s, probably in the same post-prandial time-slot where I first encountered The Cockleshell Heroes, Carve Her Name With Pride and The Colditz Story – the dull roar of British postwar self-congratulation on film.
(16) Across the road, High Water has a kind of wintry European cabin feel, with wooden ceiling beams and another great cocktail menu.
(17) The Met Office said people in north Wales, northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland could expect severe gales with gusts of about 70mph and frequent wintry showers.
(18) Wintry showers are expected to hit the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday and Thursday.
(19) Heavy wintry showers across southern Scotland will clear to leave a fine day with long spells of sunshine.
(20) Forecasting snow is always challenging and there’s often a fine line between whether it will rain or snow in a particular location depending on slight changes in air temperature.” The outlook for the UK over the weekend was for generally dry weather on Saturday, with sunny spells across most of England and Scotland and a few showers, locally wintry, in Northern Ireland and western and easternmost parts of Britain.