Example Sentences

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In the show, rare glimpses of his inner turmoil come when he devours a lemon tart or a chocolate bar with a pleasureless intensity.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Both movies share the aesthetic of their characters’ similarly grim dedication to an ideal, and both offer the triumph and redemption of that pleasureless devotion.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2014

So let me at least use my hack-y little joke to sum up the major problem with this pleasureless Fox comedy, debuting tonight: it should be called We Hate Every Character on Our Own Sitcom.

From Time • Nov. 30, 2011

There were thousands such in every city, over-worked and under-fed, living lonely, pleasureless lives. 

From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Or pleasureless shall we pass by The long cold night and leaden day, That song, and tale, and minstrelsy Shall make as merry as the May?

From A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by Morris, William