pleasureless

Some may value life itself, however pointless and pleasureless it is, but others do not.

Parliament's moral duty on assisted dying | Mary Warnock 2012

And a few more links: 1. Ana Marie Cox calls Gawker "a soul-sucking, pleasureless attitude factory maybe even a sweatshop."

Alien Queen prop (link roundup) 2010

For those that think plant-heavy diets are inherently pleasureless, you really just have to get creative.

ALL you need to know about the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair 2009

And of course that grim-faced pleasureless monster Calvin.

Tocqueville’s vision and even the language anticipate Orwell’s 1984, or Huxley’s Brave New World Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

For those that think plant-heavy diets are inherently pleasureless, you really just have to get creative.

ALL you need to know about the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair 2009

The result might have been boring to the point of nothingness were it not for the exhilarating lightness and unexpected warmth Sejima and Nishizawa bring to minimalism, which can be harsh and pleasureless.

Miracle on the Bowery Filler, Martin 2008

Aristotle rejected Plato's assimilation of enjoying sights, sounds, smells, and intellectual activity to the satisfaction of homeostasis-serving appetites and also his view of the highest, divine life as one of pleasureless cognition.

Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

Anni opened her bleary eyes and cringed automatically from the blow she was programmed to crave, with a pleasureless itch.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Wonderful industry — strange, fruitless, pleasureless toil?

Lay Morals 2005

More empty, pleasureless years, punctuated by a few hours of fame, which would only bring him to the attentions of people who were just like him, who had ambitions of their own, and hoped to maneuver him to get something.

The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005