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As I See It; an unjoyous tragicomedy bastardization.

Eschaton 2003

As I See It; an unjoyous tragicomedy bastardization.

Archive 2003-06-01 2003

This dilemma, it may be noted, frequently arises at funerals, for at these unjoyous, highly organized occasions, there is a strong likelihood that persons will see each other after long separation and owe each other expansive greetings.

Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent, unjoyous attachment for my native town that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam’s brick edifice, when I might as well, or better, have gone somewhere else.

The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter” 1917

- Shakespeare's sadder lines - roll off their tongues majestically and seem to give them consolation - as it were to lay a sound, unjoyous basis for the proper enjoyment of the songs of Robbie Burns.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent, unjoyous attachment for my native town that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice, when I might as well, or better, have gone somewhere else.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902

In the first place it is dog eat dog in every direction; the joy of the hunter and the most unjoyous fear of the hunted.

The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

In a few moments we were whirling along the straight, white road between the interminable black vineyards, and past the dilapidated homesteads of the vine-folk and wayside cafés that are scattered about this unjoyous corner of France.

The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol William John Locke 1896

The town's mad lust for pleasure: its fierce, unjoyous laughter: its desire ever to be in crowds as if afraid of itself: its orgies of eating and drinking: its animal-like indifference to the misery and death that lay but a little way beyond its own horizon!

All Roads Lead to Calvary 1893

On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent, unjoyous attachment for my native town that brought me to fill

Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892