"In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Hemingway was referring primarily to fiction, but the advice nevertheless points to one primary deficiency among the newspapers — namely, an ability to give the reader a sense that he is a colleague, not some peon to be dictated to, and that literature is something to be experienced rather than cheerlessly discussed over tea and scones. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In Mariam's lap, she sucked her thumb cheerlessly and watched Rasheed in a sullen, pensive way. ❋ Hosseini, Khaled (2007)
And she's come to the right place, since Pauline, who's about to marry a petulant, corpulent child (played cheerlessly by Jack Black), can give as bad as she gets when it comes to sibling rivalry. ❋ Unknown (2007)
You too have stirred memories that I would rather still be laid buried… I cheerlessly remember looking at the illustration of a sailing ship printed on the reservation card for a romantic dinner for two at the Ship Hotel, Brighton… it lay at my feet, while the woman that I had reduced to tears sat dolorous, with her head in her hands on the stairs… oddly many such situations have occurred around staircases. ❋ Ms Robinson (2007)
He gave the order to the semaphore team, who had reluctantly given up their flags and were cheerlessly using an electromagnetic signaling technique called "radio telegraph" that was based on Mahallan's radar. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He, I know — for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made — thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
So I have had a fairly zombie-free day, up until now, when I am cheerlessly reading about the various types of cancer that bottlenose dolphins can get. ❋ Mariness (2004)
On the lines which he had fancied the moorings of an ark a few lanterns swung in the night breeze, flickering cheerlessly. ❋ Unknown (2003)
All lived cheerlessly enough in the village, mixing little together, and if they did meet occasionally, it was only at such times as the bell of the mission called them tot he dilapidated cottage which served them for a church. ❋ Unknown (2003)
On this account was it that, when the company cheerlessly broke up from the present feast, Lin Tai-yü did not mind the separation; and that Pao-yü experienced such melancholy and depression, that, on his return to his apartments, he gave way to deep groans and frequent sighs. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The men munched dried dates cheerlessly, the black men intent only on the working of their jaws, the white man occasionally glancing at the dull red sky, or out across the level monotony where the shadows were gathering and deepening. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)
"There is no hope here or hereafter in the cult of my people " In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)
Our room was in the “Chrysler Building,” a long walk past the ranks of gamblers cheerlessly feeding the slot-machine racket. ❋ Lawrence Donegan (2002)
But he had showed a disposition to be courteous, for the first time in their married life, and a desire to let life go on as though there had never been anything unpleasant between them—as though, thought Scarlett, cheerlessly, as though there had never been anything at all between them. ❋ Margaret Mitchell (1996)
