anhedonic

I pass on, without regard for logic or completeness, to a personality type that we may call the anhedonic or simpler a restless, not easily satisfied, easily disgusted group.

The Foundations of Personality 1921

As John Crudele keeps pointing out in the New York Post, the job-count books at the Labor Department-which came out later in the week-are completely cooked, and Grant's Interest Rate Observer has anatomized the utter phoniness of the Commerce Department's "anhedonic" productivity figures.

Why Does Paul O'Neill Keep His Alcoa Options? 2001

As John Crudele keeps pointing out in the New York Post, the job-count books at the Labor Department-which came out later in the week-are completely cooked, and Grant's Interest Rate Observer has anatomized the utter phoniness of the Commerce Department's "anhedonic" productivity figures.

Why Does Paul O'Neill Keep His Alcoa Options? 2001

Meanwhile, this morning, the Complaint Department brought me a glitterball, which was both a lovely gesture and made me realize that she has been increasingly anhedonic for a while now.

and the boys of the nypd choir were singing galway bay matociquala 2009

While Barton claims the stories make for "rather anhedonic reading," I found them on the contrary to be even rather moving on the whole, in addition to being structurally and stylistically challenging (the latter description being meant as a compliment.)

Book Reviewing 2010

Only those who accept "Americanism" in all its anhedonic glory need apply for citizenship, a precondition for which is knowledge of Gelernter's "sacralized reading of American history"?

Art and Culture 2010

Is my anhedonic response an early sign of clinical depression or have I just watched too much reality TV?

Gone are the days of rejoicing over a royal wedding Catherine Bennett 2010

“If the individual is depressed or anhedonic, you can change his attitude by physical means,” the ad copy reads.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

My default classification for anyone who says that seriously is that they fall somewhere along the spectrum of "lacking imagination / internal resources" to "anhedonic".

Making Light: Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada 2010

In the Roman Catholic tradition, the most virtuous human condition is imagined as asexual virginity that is not just anhedonic in spirit but anti-sexual in spirit.

The Catholic Bishops' Views About Contraception and Abortion in the First Trimester Are Ridiculous 2009