cheerlessness

Example Sentences

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The bright and blue-skied backdrop is utterly at odds with the cheerlessness deliciously conjured by Tolkien.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2013

That night, its air striking power destroyed, the Japanese invasion armada turned in "emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin" and limped for home.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the dim light the surroundings looked both poor and squalid, but porter and flyman vied with one another in a welcome so warm that it went far to dissipate the cheerlessness of the scene.

From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by Groome, William H. C.

To add to our unpleasant position, and, at the same time, to heighten the cheerlessness of the scene 143around us, the rain began to fall violently.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd

Instead of an age of joy and of elastic step, we are pointed to an iron rule of repression and cheerlessness.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)