Devoid of affection

Usage examples of loveless.

Harrison, who did not really meet her father until she was 20, takes the reader on a difficult journey into her loveless childhood, her bouts with anorexia and bulimia, and, eventually, the incestuous 4-year affair with her father.

Most of them risked so much by leaving good jobs with much larger variety chains to join up with a one-horse outfit run by an overactive dreamer down in Bentonvillepeople like Clarence Leis, Willard Walker, Charlie Baum, Ron Loveless, Bob Bogle, Claude Harris, Ferold Arend, Charlie Cate, Al Miles, Thomas Jefferson, Gary Reinboth.

If Jennet wanted to marry Mark, Susanna would wish them well with all her heart, but she would not condone the sort of careless coupling that led to unwanted children and loveless marriages.

Many people who are frantically trying to whip up their prayer life would do better to get up off their knees and go out and do something about their loveless, purposeless, and undevoted lives.

Sleeping next to him in the huge old bed that had been in the family since the days of Charles EL She would not be the first female member of her family to enter a loveless marriage--far from it, and even these days, in moneyed and powerful circles, marriage were often still very much paren tally instituted and approved, no matter how much this might be glossed over.

He realized too that Victoria must have promised Olivia a loveless relationship with no physical demands involved, and then everything had changed .

Joy that refuses time or terror, that undoes the madness of the loveless self and buries it in splendor.

The wretched female, loveless victim of vulgar brutality, had wandered to the toilet of high-born beauty, and, arraying herself in the garb of splendour, had died before the mirror which reflected to herself alone her altered appearance.

She's had a loveless life right from the beginning, a life domineered by Great-gran.

There he met Loveless, John Amery, and Joyce (Haw-Haw), 'but they considered themselves Germans', while 'we were loyal Englishmen anxious to convert our fellow-countrymen into allies of Germany'.

Charles Loveless had no notion of cross cat-harpins, still less of Bentinck shrouds.

All of you are henceforth dead to the world of humans, cursed for all time to walk as animals, voiceless, loveless, and joyless, for the joy and the love of my life you have stolen from me.

Vets maxed out their credit cards, got thrown out of gambling casinos, wept over songs by George Strait and Patty Loveless, knifed each other over shuffleboard bowling games in bars, bought muscle cars on credit and then wrecked them, beat their wives, beat their kids, beat their fuckin dogs, and probably cut themselves shaving more often than people who had never been closer to the green than Apocalypse Now or that fucking piece of shit The Deer Hunter.

Ken and Sam both tried their hardest to be sincerely glad for the guy, but it got a little hard to deal with at timesfor Ken, because he was so relentlessly alone, and for Sam because hed been roped into a loveless shotgun marriage when a former girlfriend, Mary Lou Morrison, showed up four months pregnant.

So long as my circumstances were as they were, he said, and my motives remained free of perversion, he saw little to choose between auto and homoerotic activity: masturbation, while more normal in the eyes of most New Tammanians and less liable to cause public embarrassment, carried its dangers in the same single-handedness that recommended it: loveless and reclusive, it fed the fantasies of the timid and could aggravate any tendencies to impotence or withdrawal from engagement with others -- narcissism and schizophrenia, he asserted, were the masturbator's inclinations in the realm of psychopathy.