cheerlessness

For all its cheerlessness, the novel is anything but grittily realistic.

Mercy! 2009

Rain-soaked colors convey the soggy melancholy of the Pacific Northwest as distinctly as the thin, smeared palette in "Quiet City" reflected the dim electric cheerlessness of New York subways and diners at night.

Mumblecore Realism in the Age of Technology Richard B. Woodward 2011

For all its cheerlessness, the novel is anything but grittily realistic.

Mercy! 2009

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

Artichoke Christian Bell 2010

Much fiction that looks backward upon Jewish life in Eastern Europe is fatally infected with nostalgia and cheerlessness.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

Much fiction that looks backward upon Jewish life in Eastern Europe is fatally infected with nostalgia and cheerlessness.

Isaac’s Torah 2008

No doubt they are meant to represent popular culture, but they are characteristic of the cheerlessness and sententiousness of municipal Labourism.

The New Art Gallery, Walsall 2006

It's a joy to come in from litter-strewn streets and graffitti and the general cheerlessness of much of today's London, and find a school buzzing with a sense of purpose and small children.

Archive 2008-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

It's a joy to come in from litter-strewn streets and graffitti and the general cheerlessness of much of today's London, and find a school buzzing with a sense of purpose and small children.

A Catholic Religious Education Project... Joanna Bogle 2008

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.

Think Progress » Official U.S. Military Dictionary Includes ‘Escalation,’ Not ‘Surge’ 2007