| 单词 | misery |
| 例句 | In the midst of this misery Schindler had performed his magic. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “So much of the land we’ve passed through— and the misery—belongs to him. He treats his people badly.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, I don’t think I’ve ever said this many words out loud in a row in my entire life, so please feel free to put me out of my misery any time now.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Who would put him out of his misery, or her? Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up and walked out to his car, his steps plodding, weighed down with misery. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I wanted to open her up, crisp her edges, ram a stick down that hunched and curving spine, force her to stand erect and spit the misery out on the streets. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet the spectacle of desolation I had just left prepared me in a measure for a tale of misery. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z So he kept to himself for many days out of sheer misery. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The three women sat talking about various miseries they had had, their cure or abatement, what had helped. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “God ...” I said, gulping down my misery, “has willed it otherwise.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to see just how much misery Misery could take. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the book Men Against Death I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “As if Hercules knew true misery. It’s not even a good likeness!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Rowan was thankful that the suicide king held the monopoly on misery in this room. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Instead of returning to Rome with the sudden fortune, which had been his dream maturing in misery, José Arcadio converted the house into a decadent paradise. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As March continued, the weather turned to rain and then to snow, and the men crawled into their damp sleeping bags in complete, wretched misery. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Nicolas made fun of his social concerns, arguing that only a fool with the calling of an apostle would go out into the world seeking misery and ugliness with the stump of a candle. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Our power and our fear of change help bind these people to their misery and bewilderment, and insofar as they find this state intolerable we are intolerably menaced. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z When it was nearing dinnertime, if Charles passed by, she would tremble with misery. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Whites tried to entice “their” blacks to stay, talking up the perils of the North—race riots and cold weather, both of which would bring misery and death. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She stroked her silk scarf, and every once in a while she looked like she was going to speak and finally put me out of my misery. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Their bodies form a triangle of misery, fear, and anger. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Less miserable, no. Just a different kind of misery.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They were horrified at the anguish and misery on earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a whole city in ruins, and more of his kind willing to take advantage of others’ misery,” he explained. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s talk in green,” her son would have told her, trying to distract her from her misery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Demented and powerless, the aged being could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery, and he shrank away from what seemed like yet another threat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I decided I would take four or five centuries to tell her about the special misery of living with T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Put those skunks out of their misery, for one.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They found her living in great misery and so they looked for Sidero, to punish her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So, though I feel miserable, I labor well for this misery of a person. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z On the train, I had wanted a bomb to fall on us to put me out of my misery. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z And to add to the misery, they were my only company. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “It is amazing how much misery the human body can tolerate,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to be so young, a cub, a puppy, something helpless and beaten, a creature so sunk in misery that it was more misery than creature. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Arthur. Go put your boyfriend out of his misery.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z There, the sea breeze blew many away, but here, amongst the still air of the swamps they swarmed close and tore at them, a misery of biting insects. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Since man’s fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the days passed he lost condition and became listless with misery. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Anyway I figured Leah and I could tell each other our troubles, since misery loves company, even though she has a husband that is still alive at least, which is more than I can say. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She found only greater misery and finally could not hide that. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z His face was weary, even dazed, as if he hadn’t slept a wink, and an unmistakable remnant of misery showed in his eyes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “I confess it was conceived in delight, and I grieve to think that it will be born into misery!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I went on: “Sometimes she would hold me to her. At other times she seemed to find me . . . repulsive. Sometimes I thought I was the cause of her misery.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z November 12 Confessions It’s time to tell Mother why misery keeps pouncing on me. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Vincent looks back on the time when he focused on religion so much—too much—and sees his zeal as a symptom of his melancholic misery. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The mine at Bartley was always having cutoffs and strikes, and in the last few years, many Bartley families had slid into poverty and misery. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Is Education and Education alone will free her from this misery we in.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And in his furious misery he actually caught her by the shoulder and shook her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m overjoyed to receive them, yet they bring misery. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z At these words, seemingly in response to them, a sudden wail sounded, a terrible, drawn-out cry of misery and pain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The weight of him, the prevention of his misery, was the answer that defied all logic. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z True, my continued existence could make her life miserable, but misery is the lesser of two evils. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The preacher is rapt with attention as Katherine begins spinning out a tale of woe and misery so pitiful that it belongs in a weekly serial. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I could hardly bear to look at all the misery. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “The shield of Hercules. He painted me on its surface, so his enemies would see me in their final moments—the goddess of misery.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We stayed in the mess and misery of the house only as long as we had to, trading our wet clothes for dry, finding our shoes, trying not to look at anything else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Listening to people howl in misery is not among my favorite pastimes. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Glancing back, he saw all the carnage, death and misery he had caused in his career. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Not long after that, Nazi entrepreneurs arrived on the scene in the hope of making their fortune off the misery of Jewish factory owners who were no longer permitted to own a business. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Do the owners have any idea of the misery that goes into rendering their homes motel-perfect? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But when we moved down into the prickly-pear flats, my misery eased some. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Yossarian was enraged when the ambulance returned him to the squadron, and he went limping for justice to Doc Daneeka, who glared at him glumly with misery and disdain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Singly they found their way to his door, wrapped each in a shroud stitched with anger, yearning, pride, vengeance, loneliness, misery, defeat, and hunger. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They would shoot and wring—and, Palmer imagined, punch and hand grenade and bayonet if they had to—anything to end the poor birds’ misery. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Both diseases caused much misery and could be fatal. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I could go back and be his comforter—his pride; his redeemer from misery, perhaps from ruin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “There is no relation between the massive accumulation of wealth in one part of the world and abject misery in another.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z At that moment, I would give anything for a painkiller, or ice to put out the fire in my injured thigh, or even another bullet to put me out of my misery. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We tried to help Flint in his sickness and misery. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He forgave me, maybe because a miserable person can only stand to be alone with their misery for so long. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z ‘Will the sun forget to streak?’ is no hysterical outburst of operatic tragedy, nor is it a plaint of sentimental, self-indulgent misery. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I felt a perverse pleasure in these pains, for they distracted me from my misery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But although no one, apparently, is sleeping in a car, there are signs, even at the beginning, of real difficulty if not actual misery. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now we are in this hellish misery,” he went on, refusing to listen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What misery would be the child’s lot if these meetings were discovered? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z This may sound funny to us in the context of old Hawaii, until we reflect on all the misery still being caused by such struggles in the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt somebody should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Dull isn’t a word you’d use to describe such misery, and enchantment. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z February in Salinas is likely to be damp and cold and full of miseries. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was when I found out I had to talk that school became a misery, that the silence became a misery. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Tears of misery rose in Lupita’s eyes as she sensed a dark truth. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z And, indeed, it did not feel to him as if he or Mordred had led their country to its misery. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The terror racing through her heart at least kept her from dissolving into misery. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He watched Io’s misery, turned into a beast, driven from her home; he dared not come to her help. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He was distracted with misery, not only because he knew that he had been acting unwisely and wickedly, but also because he was genuinely in love with the Queen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It blew her hair away from her face and the misery of her sleepless night began to subside. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, Rowan’s expression gave her neither camaraderie nor sympathy, nor misery at having to be set against each other. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Henry in his palace, in love, in misery, not talking much anymore. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I don’t know what it’s going to be or what direction it’s going to come from, but I know it will bring misery and tears and pain. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He could only feel the misery in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z After a moment or two, Snape raised his face, and he looked like a man who had lived a hundred years of misery since leaving the wild hilltop. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z While she’d been wrapped up in her own misery, life in the citadel had gone on. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Finally he gave up and collapsed at her feet, his head turned away in misery. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Known as Jimmie, he had come to America in his late teens and settled in Palo Alto, where he had endured the social misery of attending elementary school as an adult. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z If the wounded pigeons were in misery, he wondered, why put them there in the first place by shooting them? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It amazes me that there are so many different words to pray with, and so many people praying, but there is still so much misery and cruelty in the world. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In addition to the misery of serving the gods’ “purpose,” it was her fate to watch her husband love the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The guilt and misery that coated the words were like a kick to the chest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Lying in my bed under the weeping night I did my best to read to take my mind out of misery, but while my eyes moved on the lines I listened to the night. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, the heat was a misery, but it also brought me my freedom. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His misery made him slow-witted and careless and he was ashamed of the part he had played at the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The horseless carriage was just arriving in San Francisco, and its debut was turning into one of those colorfully unmitigated disasters that bring misery to everyone but historians. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell someone that this was it, the last straw, I couldn’t go on anymore with my own misery plus Piper’s, which was so much worse. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no effort for him to believe that the misery his granddaughter reported was a Marxist fabrication. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To add to his misery, the loss of Ariana had led, not to a renewed closeness between Albus and Aberforth, but to an estrangement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z At this rate, we might not reach the road until dark—and the thought of that fills me with such misery, I have to fight it with fury. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His wife had a point about the air, he conceded, but in every other way the place was a misery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But my misery wasn’t a secret to anyone; there was no mystery to be solved at all. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In extreme misery, faltering and stammering, she gave her sisters to understand that she could not deny what they said, because she had been with him only in the dark. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A wave of misery broke over him as he saw her about to vanish inside her panties forever. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I endured misery for the sake of appearances. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Let us rise up and go out, back through the years, where the burden of all this misery lies on us no more, back to you and me alone, Mother! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She works, not knowing my misery, and I watch, not knowing hers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This family, on a Saturday morning in October, began, one by one, to stir out of their dreams of affluence and vengeance into the anonymous misery of their storefront. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Look through it and you could see the billions of impoverished people in the world, and the many linked causes of their misery. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They were satisfied to plant their dirty little lettuce plants in their front yards and let the rest of it sink into misery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I am overcome with grief, with loss, with the stark misery of being alone. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I rushed at Tamika again, wanting to spare her the misery of Dad’s cuisine. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The days passed with agonizing slowness, followed by nights of misery. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the misery and the utter skin-crawling horror of incarceration, he was breathing relief. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Jonas nodded, agreeing, as he recalled the incident, and its accompanying misery. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z There was an order of misery, misery tucked inside miseries, and you were meant to keep track. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I guess I liked to see her suffer, ’cause, you know what they say, misery digs company. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Poor Fidelito had curled up on the ground in a fit of misery. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I know this, because I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, to eat my own bitterness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The misery could not have been worse had they lost an engine in flight, as planes did back in the mortal days, when technology occasionally failed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She made Medea, all bewildered with love and misery, determine to fly with Jason. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z George asked, still deep in her fog of misery. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I do not know what he looks like, but if Pol Pot is the leader of the Angkar then he is the one responsible for all the miseries in our lives. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles argued that “there seems too much misery in the world.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But he bellowed slowly, abjectly, without tears; the grave hopeless sound of all voiceless misery under the sun. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of us sat downstairs at the kitchen table, spent and sullen now, our misery provoked all over again by the sight of the fourth empty chair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Bernard was back among the miseries of space and time. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As she danced, Gerald could feel her pain; he could see her fear and misery. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But impatient as she was with the long days indoors, the outdoors promised only aching misery. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z This cushion was the source of much misery. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Eleanor had been up all night thinking about how he was probably done with her, and now she just wanted to put herself out of her misery. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Lyra could hear faint cries of pain and misery. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Then if he’s dead anyway, why not put him out of his misery? Dri, Matt’s in if you are.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained that there was more to it than putting the pigeons out of their misery. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He knew that the moment he allowed himself to feel to its fulness how they lived, the shame and misery of their lives, he would be swept out of himself with fear and despair. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His knees weak, he settled onto the sofa and his laughter resolved into misery. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Added to this misery there’s another, but of a more personal nature, and it pales in comparison to the suffering I’ve just told you about. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Among these song types are hundreds that lament the burden and misery of underclass life, as became the standard Blues format. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We sat in silence, and I felt an unseen mosquito feasting on my ankles, adding to my general misery. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Anger began to replace her misery as she looked at Mr. Derby with steely-eyed fury. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do those hijas de la gran puta know you have children in this Godforsaken hellhole? Do they know your children go barefoot and hungry while you spend the misery you earn on them?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it was my mood or whether it was just Les Misérables itself, but I spent the next hour feeling helplessly pounded by French misery. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Because the Prince is a fiend. And Rugen is his twin in misery. And this is their masterpiece.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The poor women waited, Aethra with them, while he went to summon the assembly which would decide the misery or happiness of their dead children. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “A-menable,” the twins chorused in misery, barely stumbling over the unusual word. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z How long he lay there, racked by grief and misery, he had no way of knowing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A person who’s happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Whatever the miseries of my life with the Brights, they were at least familiar miseries. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth’s misery increased, at such unnecessary, such officious attention! Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z She doesn’t have to stay locked into place, into this mournful, drawn-out, low-grade misery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And they’d slowly put us poor suckers out of our misery. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In her Georgia misery she had pictured freedom, and it had not looked like this. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The stains of human misery that must have been hosed off these white tiles . Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The anticipation of what might happen was overpowering, a suffocating blanket of misery and fear that began to take on a life of its own. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And it isn’t the house full of the sick and dying, the bleeding backs, the gaunt-faced children, the marching boots, or the omnipresent misery that drives me under the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In spite of her misery, the idea was so silly Nhamo gave him a watery smile. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And nothing will ever be all right where that piece of misery is.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She felt them at the core of her, every image and scene of fright and foreboding, of shame, shock, and misery, of bloodshed and agony. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Jacob saw her face and nearly laughed, jerked out of his misery by someone else’s. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Man must be ready to say: Yes, since Cain there has been injustice, but we can only set the misery right if we accept a status quo. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He steps back and shuts the door, and I stand there, staring, too stunned to feel my own relief, listening to the misery of the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Parsons gave Winston a glance in which there was neither interest or surprise, but only misery. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She deserved to feel all the misery the Queen was feeling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That our misery, confinement, and pain were irrelevant to their lives was simply incomprehensible. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Chained head to toe, head to toe, in exponential misery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For a moment I knew the intimate and subtle joys of misery. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She stretched out on a mat by the bed and, worn out by fear and misery, sank into a dreamless sleep. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then from the heavens, I would look down and gloat over her misery. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Former athlete fathers cause a lot of misery. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Even though Count Olaf was of course the cause of all this misery, Violet felt as if she had broken her promise to her parents, and vowed to make it right. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Then again—this was the second circle—it was like the Inferno—if neither he nor Mordred had really set the misery in motion, who had been the cause? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I flopped across Aunt Florentine’s bed, resigned to a weekend of misery. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m the cause of everything and only make others sad, I alone have caused all this misery to myself and others.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Mirrors are for misery, nothing more,” his mother says calmly. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your rulers have condemned you to the massacres, miseries, and privations of a war they can never hope to win," the leaflet says. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Despite my misery and the uncertainty of what lay ahead, the hope in my breast fashioned a life as heroic and happy as the tales I had read in books. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Evil dreams and evil waking were blended into a long tunnel of misery, with hope growing ever fainter behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I feel abandoned and forgotten, dropped into misery worse than my own. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Maybe I should have called it Dancers, and put her out of her misery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Take The Great Gatsby, for instance—the woman’s melancholic face against the city lights in the distance is the perfect representation of the quiet misery of that era. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He kept staring at them with angry misery. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He was bothering Lancelot, who wanted to be alone with his misery, and Lancelot realized that he was being bothered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They compounded his misery by holding him back a grade. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z All of these flashes of future miseries occurred to William in the time it took him to turn his head to see what Jeanne was doing. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her brave winged friend dying from poison, his muzzle in her lap, looking at her trustingly as she raised her dagger to end his misery . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I can feel now the stiff, set smile on my face that did not match the misery in my eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In truth, the journey was not romantic but filled with misery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He felt he had thoroughly tasted and ejected a portion of sorrow, a portion of misery during those past times, that he had consumed them up to a point of despair and death. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The misery began when I moved beyond the Pythagorean theorem to sine, cosine and tangent. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z People say misery loves company, but I think it’s like that with anger too. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z This was the man responsible for his misery. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I was full of misery at my lie, but I found I could not disabuse him of it—I could conjure no words sufficient. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Her misery tore at Matt, and still he couldn’t move or speak. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Darcy’s shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister’s sufferings. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Adding to his misery was his feeling of impotence; for perhaps the first time in his career, he was confronted with an engineering crisis he could not fix himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thus the banquet was the exultation, the harmony, the acceptance of physical frailty, joy in the termination of misery. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at me, his eyes bleak with misery. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z May sounded so normal and happy right then, I couldn’t imagine how she’d gotten the way she was—one minute laughing and the next overrun with everybody’s misery. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She'd probably love to have my stammer if she could have her leg back, and I wondered if being happy's about other people's misery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Arthur’s feelings completed the misery of the court He, unfortunately for himself, had been beautifully brought up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My misery comes from a different concern: my marriage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one the harpies, their faces eager and hungry and suffused with the lust for misery, turned and flew back to the tree, and the ghosts drifted back as well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I had known all along the inevitable outcome and that I dared not poke into his knapsack of misery, even with the offer to help him carry it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Jo read it thankfully, but the heavy weight did not seem lifted off her heart, and her face was so full of misery that Laurie asked quickly, “What is it? Is Beth worse?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The discomfort within has evolved into sheer misery. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I’m developing a knack for this, I can sniff out hidden misery in others now with hardly any effort at all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At their first meeting after the estrangement, Bernard poured out the tale of his miseries and accepted consolation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And yet misery was the burden, the pervading, killing burden. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The doom of her words dragged me down, anchored me in misery at the knowledge that I could have avoided what was coming. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Palmer thought about misery, and it seemed to him that a shotgun was not the only way to end it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z And really, he is just another bird drinking from your misery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The man lay awake for a while, thinking about the days ahead and of the animals, for the sheer misery in the young dog’s eyes haunted him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At such moments I don’t think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I want to put him out of his misery, so I touch his forearm, barely graze it, and steady my voice. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z By about two o’clock each afternoon I wished the Russians would bomb me out of my misery. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Full of rage and misery, he found an outlet in a stream of wild and angry words at his father. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexander found Pollard lying supine with his leg up in traction, his misery greatly assuaged by a leggy private nurse named Agnes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Bernard sank into a yet more hopeless misery. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Angela asked a few quiet questions about the Macbeth paper, which I answered as naturally as I could while spiraling downward in misery. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z His knife was in his pocket, safe and dry inside its sheath, protected from the misery of the elements. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He remembered Juno’s warning when he’d chosen to go to Camp Jupiter: You will feel pain, misery, and loss beyond anything you’ve ever known. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “He work us hard,” she’d say, her thoughts lighting out to old miseries. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, God,” Ben said, his voice dripping abject misery. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z His wheezing, and his indistinct whispers, and the groans of pain and misery. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z One battle, to put an end to this misery. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For a moment he wondered where he was, and then all the misery and despair returned to him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We hadn’t had a fight last night, not really, but I could tell she didn’t know where to put her misery over my mistake, and I was scared to find out where things stood today. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once again, he thought, the two children of the depression had fought the misery of past holidays by spending a modest fortune on their own children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At this, Winky flung herself forward off her stool and lay facedown on the flagged stone floor, beating her tiny fists upon it and positively screaming with misery. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He’d always believed his childhood was sterile, but the knowledge Macon and Ruth had given him wrapped his memory of it in septic sheets, heavy with the odor of illness, misery, and unforgiving hearts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Something of my misery must have shown in my face, for at first she looked astonished, then annoyed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t need the pressure of it, because he has been through the misery of it before. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And so Shin’s misery never skidded into complete hopelessness. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Now I think I’ll never leave this mud and cold and misery. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Gulliver didn’t chirp once when Virgil lifted him out of his cage—another sign of his misery and resentment. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The image they saw outside their school guaranteed that misery would have some company. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was still there, despite all the death and disease and misery and sadness and loss everywhere else. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at their bandaged arms with misery in her eyes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The craftmen’s workshops had glass roofs to let the sky in, while the painters survived in dark hovels that were a paradise of misery and grandeur. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The heat was a misery for all of us in Fentress, but it was the women who suffered the most in their corsets and petticoats. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The child cried steadily as though in drugged misery. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Harriet, poor Harriet!”—Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z We would exchange remedies and try to outdo each other in the recital of our physical miseries; gently we would complain, our voices soft and minor key and mournful as pigeons in the eaves troughs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought about how ephemeral life was, about not choosing misery. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My desires are strangely compounded of yearning and misery. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He stops at the curb and sits down, straight reckless, probably waiting for a car to knock him out of his misery. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z If for even an instant he pretended to misery like mine ... Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the net effect of crack is still being felt in the form of violent crime, to say nothing of the miseries the drug itself continues to cause. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Judge Carlson raised his gavel like a man ready to put a dying animal out of its misery. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He began to sit on the floor with her, even lay down alongside her, trying to draw her out of her misery. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Superstition was a widely available nostrum for people powerless against the miseries of famine, pestilence and deadly doctrinal conflict. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They broke apart, and Matthias’ body flooded with misery as he dragged himself over the black rocks to the dead and frozen land. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t need it anymore, does he? It came here when his mortal body was burned. A reminder, I suppose, that no shield is sufficient. In the end, misery overtakes all of you. Even Hercules.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her second blow wounded the left side of the doghouse gravely and her last put it out of its misery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Lovely, ” he said, distracted for a moment from the misery of his existence, “delightful. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z His misery is so much more abject than mine. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He had carried this innocent precision, these dainty demoded cusps, through misery and passion to old age. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your father ordered that I was to be kept alive for as long as possible—to endure the misery that Endovier gives in abundance.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He went, his face overlaid with shame and misery. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I somersaulted deeper into my snuggery of misery. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “He told us that these people are not capable of having a life. He said it is better for these people to be released from their misery.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “What’s wrong with you two, sitting there, watching the thing? I thought you were going to pet it. Wake up. Give me the hammer. Come on, so I can put it out of its misery.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I pray God to give us dry weather soon, for this is misery. I have never seen such depression of spirits as there is in the tent.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “My dear! Believe this: when she first came to me, I meant to save her from misery like my own. At first, I meant no more.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The misery of all when Psyche’s father brought back this lamentable news can be imagined. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I, on the other hand, was the first child, the one they called their “misery baby,” the offspring of my parents’ lean years. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But then she thought of Nestor falling lifeless in the snow, of the cells full of Grisha lost in their own misery, all because of this drug. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t understand how God could let so many live in suffering and bondage while others profited off that misery. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Not only did men leave and children grow up and die, but even the misery didn’t last. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But none of these miseries was the true reason the plantations were so evil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In fact, the reader’s misery begins well before she plows into the pile of is-phrases at the end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The misery of the inevitable was clouding her thoughts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A feeling of pain and misery surrounded her entire spirit. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z That “all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She actually grew as her older daughter shrank into private misery. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I never knew that so many people experienced the same misery I am going through right now, and I want to thank you for giving them a chance to speak out. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I judged by your countenance, sir, which was troubled when you said the suggestion had returned upon you. I feel sure it will work you more misery if you listen to it.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She would wrap her arms around me and sing me to sleep, her voice carrying me to a place where I could forget my misery. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z So they got back to his house in misery and went inside. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I wanted to catch the unglued schizo way he looked before he got run over by misery, so I went way more abstract than usual. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Apparently, some other women on the fencing team were suffering from the same symptoms, so I was not alone in my misery. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In Haiti, with all its problems, there was always a friend or a neighbor to share in the misery. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The only reason they hadn’t killed her yet was that they were enjoying her misery. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was full of ennui, full of misery, full of death; there was nothing left in the world that could attract him, that could give him pleasure and solace. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I was staring at my mother’s private miseries, and it made me want to go outside and bury the book in the dirt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But for all its miseries, there was an unmistakable allure to the jockey’s craft, one that both found irresistible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother’s ten days in the hospital were pure misery for Dad. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sadness and misery, blah blah blah. But you still don’t have enough power to hide two demigods with your Death Mist. Like I said: useless.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “You know her — just put in loads of misery, she’ll lap it up.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They were simply giving the shooters a good target, they were saying, “Here we are, put us out of our misery.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It was almost time to watch Gidget on television, so I was hoping this practicing torture would end soon and I could take my misery to the den. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She managed to soothe him, but when he took up the cry again late that night, she resolved to end his misery once and for all. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Lupin gave him a swift smile, but as they turned away, Harry saw Lupin’s face fall again into lines of misery. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I did not want to spoil Chandra’s happiness with my misery. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z On other days, deep in the woods, I've listened to him rant about how the tesserae are just another tool to cause misery in our District. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His whole life had been one misery after another. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Poets survive in gulags, in detention blocks, in torture chambers. Even in that misery hole there is poets working, Merdegate, no, where in the hell, on the Channel, I always am forgetting...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time I wasn’t even aware I was sick: any symptom, any fever or pain, was drowned by the clamor of my more immediate miseries. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any other mountain I’d been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you want to end all my misery, child?” implored Granny. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our poor dear child has had a very short life, but I trust happy, and God only knows what miseries might have been in store for her,” Emma read. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. 03-01 came out of the gloom, misery in his countenance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She looked like she was about to cry, but Leo couldn’t tell if that was from relief or misery or admiration. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Both of us, it seemed like, were doomed to misery. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Unable to find words for my misery, I remained mute. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Vincent thinks he’s talking about Theo, but he's thinking about himself: for him, painting is the answer to his misery, to his lack of confidence, to his feelings of being at sea in the world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z No man has nothing but misery, let him be never so sick. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Obstinately the beautiful memories refused to rise; there was only a hateful resurrection of jealousies and uglinesses and miseries. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Her Creole had improved substantially, allowing her to take accurate notes as they described their various pains and miseries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “No sight of misery disturbs us, nor of despairing poverty out in vain search for employment.... We work our eight hours a day in peaceful security and in absolute confidence of our pay.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Reyna had put the horse out of his misery with her golden knife, turning the pegasus into dust that scattered in the sweet-smelling Greek air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was never without misery, and never without hope. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z That he didn’t even “deserve” to hear all the misery and mutual accusations his parents unloaded on him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The lines of her face were hard and rude, like that of persons accustomed to see without sympathising in sights of misery. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re nothing. The human species pretends it is so resilient. Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe. If you couldn’t lie to yourselves, you’d cut your own throats to end your misery.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Everything was madness and misery and people shouting at one another. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z By this late stage in the expedition we had all been subjected to levels of misery and peril that would have sent more balanced individuals packing for home long ago. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He could have put a stop to this misery weeks ago, but instead he chose not to. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Now that this new pain killer, the one she had been holding in reserve, was on the way her misery was manageable. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It is a genuine expression of hatred for the poor, who have no one to blame for their misery but themselves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Lancelot looked with sudden misery from one to the other, and clenched his fists. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Better. I... I have to admit, when I was choking on that poison, I kept thinking about Akhlys, the misery goddess in Tartarus. I almost destroyed her with poison.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It looked like a heifer, but talked like a girl who seemed mad with misery. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The grove had been sprayed with parathion some two and a half weeks earlier; the residues that reduced them to retching, half-blind, semiconscious misery were sixteen to nineteen days old. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All the studying he had to do kept his mind off his misery. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Sighing, he took leave of her, his heart full of misery and secret fear. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘We were expecting to be found, bothered and tormented. We didn’t know by whom. Can you not leave us to our misery?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I have been taught by misery,” he said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ghering is still mostly alive, but before I put him out of his misery I have to put down Othello. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But she has no time to wade in her own misery. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z This was only the beginning of Billy’s miseries in the metaphor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Repeating its cause, what could have been done to prevent the misery from taking hold, and M’Dear’s infallibility. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right, May. Let all that misery slide right off you. Just let it go.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My misery was too deep to speak any more. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need you to put the squirrel out of its misery,” said Flora’s mother. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z So I cry and scream and hold my belly as if I am giving birth to all the misery and pain that has ever walked the earth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Mark yelled as he kicked and kicked and kicked, pushing the body away from him, trying to end the man’s misery. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was amazing how much misery the man could cause doing the same job Luke had managed to do without hurting anyone. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She sat on a rock staring out at the ocean, her face full of misery. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Palmer had turned and looked up at his mother and said, “Why did he do that?” and his mother had said, “To put the pigeon out of its misery.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Later in life, she would hint to visitors of her own misery during this period. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All her misery was in the words, her terror and her pain of long ago, her grief for her child, the burden of the secret she had carried through the years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “My life was nothing but misery at this place and now people come along ruining my death!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It was the only place where she could find what she was looking for: misery and the ability to feel deep sorrow. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And then, “When she first came, I meant to save her from misery like mine.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The house is still full of mourners and misery and food, so much food spoiling on all the counters and tables. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And then we will be out of our misery. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z That entire week, I go to Mrs. Newman’s art room instead of the cafeteria and paint away my misery. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But the white queen brought nothing but misery and perfidy to the black people, and if she was a chief she was an evil chief. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've got a funny feeling that something evil is waiting for me up there, Otis. It's a bad house, full of misery and sin. He's still there, you know." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z If only they would not look at one so—What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a man’s thumb—in their eyes! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z After centuries of misery, slavery, injustice, and foreign interference, the people of Haiti had claimed their country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Thomas felt a sharp pang and closed his eyes as he sank deeper into the misery of the night. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Instead, I stare out the window in misery, wishing Roli were driving me home. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Killing the pigeons and putting them out of their misery stubbornly refused to mean the same thing. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The last fortnight of their journey had been a misery. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Shallow and self-absorbed. The change in appearance reveals the tragic side of that mind-set. Vanity curdles into misery. They become spiteful and jealous, wallowing in wretchedness.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They called those saws “misery whips’’ and I guess they had a reason for that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Colonel Aureliano Buendía realized, without surprise, that Úrsula was the only human being who had succeeded in penetrating his misery, and for the first time in many years he looked her in the face. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In short, such a scene of misery, distress, and cruelty, my eyes never beheld; for which the authors, one may reasonably conclude, never can make atonement in this world. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Yet he moped and moped — not eating, not talking, indulging his misery as though it were a child. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Enough to fill my heart with more misery and make me swear violent oaths at him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z When he was informed that Garfield was still alive, Guiteau said, “I wish I had given him the third bullet, and put him out of his misery.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But during that terrible first week of his life I was racked with the miseries of a weak, sore body and a lost soul. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t distinguish whether I was smelling the clutching sound of misery or hearing the cloying odor of death. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked like Cinderella in reverse, stepped out from her life at the ball for a day of misery among the ashes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart was so full of misery, he felt he could no longer endure it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Just shoot me and put me out of my misery. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I am interested, for the first time in ages, in something other than my own misery. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The place smelled of their beer and hair tonic, their punch-clock misery, their frayed nerves, their trade unionism. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The French writer Emile Zola, for example, thought that the Industrial Age had brought to working people untold misery and cruelty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She would not add more to their misery. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It bore her no malice, this animal, it was indifferent to her misery. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was making them wait, drawing out the tension, reveling in their misery, savoring his evil victory. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She had been husbanding her own misery, shaping it, making of it an art and a Way. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She could go to him, offer to put him out of his misery quickly, hold his hand as he passed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Solely to look after the Divinos and keep them from heaping misery on the other people types and giving them a pinch from time to time? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z They hastened away from that inexorable presence and found themselves in the Fields of Mourning, where the unhappy lovers dwelt who had been driven by their misery to kill themselves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Does she think misery only matter if you rich and smart and don’t have no messed-up face? Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was capable of laughing, of allowing himself from time to time a feeling of nostalgia for the past of the house, and of showing concern for the state of misery present in Melquíades’ room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But all he could see now was Scipio's pale face, his look of misery, and the tight lips—probably holding back the tears. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “The river is messing with your mind. It’s the Cocytus—the River of Lamentation. It’s made of pure misery!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I need to put Mrs. Janssen out of her misery as soon as I can. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z To put her out of her misery, and myself as well. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It was his job to put the wounded pigeons out of their misery. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He regarded himself as the father of the whole state; the people in it were his children; the misery of each one was his too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In a lifetime of living with misery and pain, his soul had not hardened; if anything it was increasingly vulnerable to pity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A gun would be found to kill the hyena and put the zebra out of its misery. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But then all at once his misery parted just long enough to allow another emotion its brief moment of glory. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve got a misery in my knees and my back all the time,” she explained, apologetically. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The drug causes sedation, not sleep, so I am trapped in fuzzy, dully aching misery for what seems like always. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z On that day, a day he was never to forget, he went when work was done to buy some medicine for Deborah, who was in bed with a misery in her back. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I had been waiting for her to start shouting, so I could shout back and cry and blame her for all my misery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wish,” cried she, “that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z For the boys still competing for a spot on the freshman crew, the deteriorating weather meant new forms of misery as they labored at their oars aboard Old New. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z How can thinking about the misery of others help if you’re miserable yourself? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Yes. Yes, Lana. She had a lot of pain. She screamed and screamed until the things left her head and crawled into mine. Then we put her out of her misery.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Maybe it was even one thing to put a teenager—almost an adult—out of his or her misery, like Alec had done to the Toad. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z From some of the glares I got walking up the board sidewalk, I figured these folks would rather suffer through hard times on their own than have a stranger come in to witness their misery. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Of Africans who had been stolen, torn from their homes and families, and described the miseries of their bondage and then their hair-raising escapes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t want to live with two Julies, but it was just as well there was one of them sharing the miseries. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I looked around my crowded office, at the stacks of records and papers, each pile filled with tragic stories, and I suddenly didn't want to be surrounded by all this anguish and misery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Skye seems to take both delight and misery from the fact. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She let me weep out all the misery and loneliness of recent years and helped me out of the tub with a mother’s care. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her misery would soon become too great to hold inside, and her skin would shatter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He sat there in nervous misery, trying to decide what to do next. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Those first days of school were a perplexing blur, but I remember the feeling clearly: pure misery. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The heroism and glamour might be there somewhere, but you had to dig and scrape and scrabble through the dirt, pain, and misery to find it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Adam said, “Maybe you should put him out of his misery.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The newspapers delivered by Jones continue to be a source of information and misery, as it becomes more and more clear that Booth’s actions have condemned him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He was staring and trembling and his great size seemed only to add to his air of stricken misery. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Benedict Mady, you a fine doctor. How come I get them miseries sometime in the small of my back after I been digging and planting for a good while? How come that misery bother me?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “He’s growing up. They’ll attack him soon, and then his life will become a blank, indifferent misery. He’s doomed.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I'm a kid. I'm thirteen. You said it's a miserable age, being thirteen, and you're right. If you don't fit in, they make your life a misery. Like Floyd Chaceley or Nicholas Briar.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z After all, as Chucha herself would say, what good is it to escape captivity only to be imprisoned in your own misery? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He radiated sorrow and bitterness, as if he were so wrapped up in his own misery that he resented Annabeth for trying to make him focus on anything else. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If I were caught, at least my misery would have ended. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Their misery only makes me more aware of my own. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk, were suddenly elevated in status by this man’s misery. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are caught in a place where there is no hope, no escape from the misery of the present or the memories of the past.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z At times he thought seriously of going with all his sorrows to see the chaplain, but the chaplain seemed so overburdened with miseries of his own that Major Major shrank from adding to his troubles. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But the goddess of misery was now fixated on Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even though she was ashamed of herself for believing such awful things about Nehemia, knowing that Dorian and Chaol were safe made the misery worth it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you just blow them up and put them out of their misery all at once?” he asked his father one day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It made him run faster, with anger, misery, and guilt tearing at him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z They want to see if I’m willing to endure a lifetime of misery simply to keep breathing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “The turtle said, ‘I have eaten your tears, and this is why I know your misery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The French he had met were generous, or otherwise lost to their own miseries. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Never have I heard such sounds of misery: the moaning and whimpering, the begging to be released from their bodies. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The clear statement of her misery was an accusation. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Listen, the vet’ll be around later to put you out of our misery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know how long he’s been watching, but by the look of misery on his face, long enough to see what happened on the street. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z With some misery, I prayed that he should do no such thing, for in her looks and speech her admiration for my companion was clear. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Ulbrickson needed one or the other of them to break through, if only to put him out of his misery, but it just wasn’t happening. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When Palmer’s mother or father put him out of his misery, they did not shoot him, they offered him a cookie. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I know that I’ll have some misery to sort through later, but for right now I’m more interested in surviving. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “What is right?” cried the old man, looking after him with a face of misery. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Hurry up, then, and put us out of our misery, I said silently to the haint. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He was too lost in his own fury and misery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "Kill me, kill me please, get me out of my misery!" she begs in the reality show, before banging her head against the wall and collapsing. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z You escape from the misery of your ordinary life and fade into the soft glow of a computer monitor. I was a troll on the white dude-bro Internet: The dark side of gaming, libertarianism, and guns 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “Oh, you should do ‘Ol’ Man River,’ ” the elderly black pianist suggests, referring to a humiliating number about the unceasing misery of being black. How a Man Defied a Rough Childhood to Rise to Opera Stardom 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z In your case, what better way to compound the misery and embarrassment of a debilitating condition than to gain weight, eschew exercise and increase the acrimony and conflict in your daily life? Chronic illness is wrecking my marriage 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The plot, the story, the soundtrack are all scalpels surgically slicing any pulsing veins of misery that may be lurking just under the skin, making rivers of remorse gush forth. Love will tear us apart: Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” is brilliant but not for the emotionally tender 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z She’s engineered a departure low in acrimony while yours is marred by misery. We fell in love and left our spouses – but I’m jealous of her ex | Dear Mariella 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z In Why Love Hurts, Illouz, a sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, attempts to explain the specific modern form of "romantic misery and happiness". Love hurts more than ever before (blame the internet and capitalism) 2012-02-12T00:06:44Z It just became one big warehouse of misery. “One of the most barbaric and inhumane aspects of our society”: Shaka Senghor on the horror of solitary confinement 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z “The kind of human misery encapsulated there — I don’t think I was dwelling on it, and I was sad to see it,” Mr. Steadman said in a phone interview from Kent, England. Ralph Steadman and His Art Star in ‘For No Good Reason’ 2014-04-18T20:58:38Z And for all the pain and misery involved, it’s not unbearable. Music Review: Baby Jane Dexter at the Metropolitan Room - Review 2011-11-28T22:44:22Z “The Long Honeymoon” is high misery: “There’s no money-back guarantee on future happiness.” Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It's a setting known to millions from "Oliver Twist," in which the workhouse hero Oliver, "desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery" tremblingly holds out his bowl and says "Please, sir, I want some more." Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z Its supporters reject the "misery today for nirvana tomorrow" model, since that bony lot are never thin enough, will never be satisfied unless they disappear. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z There simply isn’t a perfect way to cope with the existential angst, the misery, the loneliness and the all-consuming sadness induced by loss. Mum has died, dad is weak… our family is falling apart 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z All that matters, as far as evolution is concerned, is that creatures be likely to survive and reproduce, perhaps in misery. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z Season’s Greetings Families in Alan Ayckbourn plays tend not to hurl their distress at the heavens or blind people with wanton savagery; instead, they slowly and none too gently make one another’s lives a misery. On the London Stage: Derek Jacobi's Close-Up 'King Lear' 2010-12-14T15:50:02Z And yet when this same young man added to his stream of misery something less ordinary — that he wanted to annihilate what he couldn’t have — it almost seemed like a bluff. The Shame of the Male Virgin 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z “We can inspire each other to see outside our misery for a second. It just felt really good.” A photographer turned spy captures a city of sheltering-at-home artists 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But his misery and isolation ultimately won out when he hanged himself. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The often raging elder Joyce, dissolute and spendthrift, plunged his wife and children into misery and fear. Review | For famous writers, father didn’t always know best, but he provided plenty of inspiration 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Not the harsh social landscape of modern Britain — which functions as a convenient, familiar backdrop rather than a fully imagined environment — so much as Mr. Considine’s wearying reliance on the link between misery and authenticity. | 'Tyrannosaur': ?Tyrannosaur? With Peter Mullan - Review 2011-11-17T22:48:28Z I put you in the column anyway, though, to address that little nugget of perpetual misery, the word “should.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Clearing a path through the eggshells to talk to a depressed spouse 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z She hid her misery well, she says now. Little Mix's Jesy Nelson on surviving the trolls: 'People were saying horrific things' 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z “All our miseries” is certainly an exaggeration, but there’s no doubt that human beings are, at heart, social animals. Review | To get us through, finding the wisdom of books written in isolation 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Sadly, but unsurprisingly, one thing is the backstage misery. An Acrobat and a Dancer Walk Into a Circus (and Do Ballet in the Air) 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z If that makes the book sound mawkish or exploitative, or a misery memoir on a grand scale, it never feels at all like that. Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review 2013-02-10T07:00:09Z You began to hear the seeds of bands like Depeche Mode, who borrowed the Cure’s solemnity but not its outright misery. Music Review: The Cure?s Reflections Tour, at the Beacon Theater - Review 2011-11-27T22:50:25Z And there have been so many horror films, and that’s all torture and misery. ArtsBeat Blog: A More Perfect Union: Tom Six Discusses 'The Human Centipede II' 2011-09-21T16:04:10Z Hospitalised for mental illness as a teenager, Avril was mocked by some as a crazy dancer whose legs spun all over the stage while her face remained a mask of misery. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z "I'm so physically exhausted, she told BBC Breakfast, wiping away tears. "It was awful, misery yesterday, like cycling through treacle. Davina on final leg of challenge 2014-02-14T11:23:52Z Finally, an elder could take it no longer and put the camel out of its misery with a bullet to the head. My father thought he was being helpful when he roasted the rabbit on an open fire 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z “Ninety-nine percent of my contemporaries kept on reporting about the miseries and worries of the world after the war,” he once said. Slim Aarons’s Photographs of Celebrities and Moguls On View in SoHo 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z To write is to destroy the grace bestowed upon us by misery and disease and failure. Greg Baxter's top 10 memento mori 2010-07-21T11:15:00Z A roomful of teenage abandon is her misery: “Really I would rather be/At home all by myself.” Alessia Cara Speaks Up for the Outsiders on ‘Here’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z And in the end, of course, Kattë shoots herself for bringing so much misery on everyone else by her sheer cursed attractiveness. Westwood by Stella Gibbons 2011-07-29T21:53:01Z Cory reveals himself to be something other than what Freya initially believes, and the slow uncovering of his true nature is a chilling, masterly study in all the ways love can lead to misery. He’s an Artist. His Medium? Wings, Tails, Scales, Beaks and Claws. 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z But this extreme misery is tethered to an idea of redemption that is disconcertingly soft. Movie Review: The Mob Work Is Tough; Then He Has to Go Home 2010-12-28T22:45:33Z Tarantino and Iñárritu have long made their characters and audiences suffer for their art, each in his own way depicting human misery with an unsettling combination of detail and aestheticized detachment. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z You only see misery, but they see potential for greatness. Please release me: Why getting dumped is a film hero's best hope 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z The Duke of Wellington never uttered the epigram attributed to him: “Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.” A near-run thing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But one of the most affecting aspects of “The Memory Police” is the lack of misery in the narrative. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z And if you really do still feel utterly fed up, then it's because you haven't done everything I suggested, so it's your fault and you deserve every bit of misery coming your way. Digested read: I Can Make You Happy by Paul McKenna 2011-01-10T21:30:01Z They are captured in the midst of the daily misery and hell of their lives. 'These stories are our defence against organised crime': the mafia on film 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z In all that carefree sunshine, they forget their miseries and I forget mine — forgetting even that I have a job watching television. Perspective | Here’s to the class-conflicted, workplace-inappropriate ‘Below Deck’ — TV’s ideal mental vacation 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Far from being a misery memoir, however, it is beautifully observed, humorous, moving, uplifting; told with a dry, self-deprecating wit and not a trace of self-pity. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-11T15:00:01Z The basic welfare problem of zoos, and the violation that causes the most misery, is the loss of the big F, Freedom. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Wasn’t it possible that someone who profits from Purdue Pharma — or from any other variety of human misery — could buy one of her photographs? Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z We’ve often noted — and written about — the frequent disjunction between the sleek, luxurious places where the festivals happen and the misery depicted onscreen. We Watched Fall Film Festivals From Home. Here’s How It Went. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Luckily for Morris, he's quickly put out of his misery. TV Review: 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow and Confessions of a Cannibal Convict 2010-07-12T05:45:00Z “I always saw it as an oasis in a desert of misery,” Quaid said of the romance. ‘The Boys’ Is Back, More Relevant Than Ever 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z A runaway slave saves his life, and this becomes a recurring pattern through his life: Abel — like the rest of the nation, perhaps? — is repeatedly caught between the misery and mercy delivered by others. 'Wilderness': from the fog of war to the Olympic Peninsula 2012-09-07T23:57:19Z In “I’m a Fool to Want You,” he begs, “Pity me, I need you,” knowing full well that he’s embracing misery. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z He fought the 2005 election not just with a recalcitrant Gordon Brown making his life a misery but with an inflamed disc in his back. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z If it were possible to calculate a quantum of misery, then black America would surely come out on top. Tiger ancestors 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z And this is what I prayed about: It occurred to me that this was the place to release the grief that had come with the obstetric misery that dogged my late 30s. Modern Love: A Forgotten Prayer, Answered ? Modern Love 2011-12-29T18:34:09Z She is determined to escape and change the cycles of violence and misery to which her family has been subjected. Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z He's long been obsessed with Don, wanting to be like him, and it's interesting to look at Pete's suburban misery and extramarital wanderings and see the Season 1 Don. Mad Men Mondays: Lane KO's Pete 2012-04-16T17:56:48Z I wanted them to be allies in my struggle, compatriots in my misery. I was a drunk, angry teacher 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Cameron skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery, referring to the sheer scale of the sacrifice. David Cameron announces £50m fund for first world war commemorations 2012-10-11T19:12:20Z Woods writes in the same style as those photographs, wrapping beauty in shocking misery. Stabbed in the Convent, Murdered in the Yard 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z In it, Martin Luther King, Jr., details the miseries of a black man, a victim of injustice, who is asked to wait patiently for change. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Equal misery for all would have been deplorable, and lazy. The arts cuts: David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, David Peace and others give their verdicts 2011-03-30T18:00:01Z Proceeding in a tone of unrelieved misery, “Coldwater” is a punishing, predictable drama that’s almost rescued by strong acting and good intentions. ‘Coldwater,’ a Brutal Tale of Juvenile Lockup 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It was as unmitigated as misery can get without a genuinely serious cause. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z Despite the misery they were borne out of, the drawings were both bizarre and amusing. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “For every roach you save today, you condemn god-knows-how-many to misery tomorrow,” says the officer, in what to me felt like deja vu. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z To underline the unpredictable miseries of slave life, from the shattering of families to the meting out of punishment and brutal labor, Mr. Cummings hopes to startle visitors with unexpected sights and sequences. Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z His misery knows no bounds: He despises obese people, immigrants, gays and even the old friends who seek him out on Facebook. New Books by Imbolo Mbue, Krys Lee, Gonzalo Torné and Lisa McInerney 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z I suspect that if I’d read it when I was 10, my perspective on my own anxious adolescent misery would have been helpfully enlarged by the recognition of my own struggles in Raina’s. More and More Children Are Feeling Anxious. This Graphic Novelist Is Trying to Help. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z For me, it was about managing the misery. I was a drunk, angry teacher 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z He brought some joy into a place of intense misery. Where's the strangest place you've been to watch a gig? 2012-08-17T14:07:46Z Does art redeem some measure of war’s misery? “He had to literally collect pieces of his men from the ground after an ambush”: Joshua Ferris interviews Paolo Giordano 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z “Pure” is not a misery parade, though; the characters are funny and the show is bouncy and vibrant, serious but not self-serious. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Where the show struggles, though, is that Stella’s path is not conventional — the miseries and indignities of a devastating disease are not whimsical study-abroad programs. Review: On ‘Life Sentence,’ Life Is a Little Too Beautiful 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z However, given that the average tube journey is a hellish nightmare of rucksacks and elbows and shrieking children and BO and misery, advertising suicide to such a suggestible audience might be morally disadvantageous. The Limitless potential of fantasy film products 2011-03-10T15:32:39Z She and other members of the Women for Peace movement in Liberia describe the efforts that ended years of civil war and its attendant miseries. Television in Review: ?Women, War & Peace? on PBS - Review?Chelsea Settles,? an MTV Reality Show - Review?Reed Between the Lines? on BET - Review 2011-10-10T23:24:44Z "I was only 17, living in misery, waiting to die." Zosia Mamet of 'Girls' pens column on her eating disorder 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z All these decades later, The Fault in Our Stars sets the most toxic misery among the most adorable company. REVIEW: "The Fault in Our Stars" Earns Its Big Fat Tears 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Maybe something in the zeitgeist is being accidentally captured here, some contemporary impulse toward despair or self-annihilation driven by the specific social, spiritual or economic miseries of the second decade of the 21st century. “The Skeleton Twins”: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader go dark in a potent sibling dramedy 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Their sights are set on bigger game: the fellow inhabiting the Oval Office when their misery, mental illness or anger reaches a violent peak. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The show became a pressure cooker of misery, straining their marriage and their relationship with their three children. The Galloping Gourmet made cooking fun on TV long before Food Network. Now he’s back. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Di Lasso’s “Lagrime,” however, is by a deeply depressed composer in the days before meds, someone who only wants his misery to end. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, Obama, here not so much a man of misery as a projection of a collective American malaise, book-ends this show. Second City's 'South Side' ★★★½ 2011-04-11T20:53:31Z But did Rockwell, who knew all about domestic miseries and national threats, want to keep turning out such roseate stuff? The norms of Norman Rockwell 2011-01-30T22:00:03Z A lot of directors, you went home weeping in misery, ashamed of what you’d done. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z “Review” can be difficult to stomach in spite of its cleverness; it’s only a comedy insofar as one can enjoy reveling in the misery a cheerful dolt inflicts upon himself. An unexamined life: “Review” returns for one last joke on its sadly hilarious host 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Set in the small Wisconsin town from which it takes its title, this pointless wallow in man-child misery unites three unappetizing specimens in what only the most magnanimous viewer would call a plot. Movie Review : ‘Oconomowoc,’ Set in Small-Town Wisconsin 2013-04-18T23:53:00Z This place of emptiness and disconnection and uncertainty, the misery of not really knowing who you are in the world. Gaby Hoffmann doesn’t choose her delightfully off-beat roles — they choose her: “I don’t think anybody would ever cast me in the girlfriend role or the sex symbol” 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z In his early and still most famous work "There Were Many Horses", published in 2001, he describes the chaos, violence, misery and decadence of mega-city Sao Paulo. Ruffato writes Brazil 'as I see it', and it's not pretty 2013-10-16T15:30:54Z They are hungry for happiness, which in Moshfegh’s world is simply the absence of misery. Ottessa Moshfegh's short story collection 'Homesick for Another World' wades into the ugliness of people 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Of course, being a celebrity is also misery. Review | Taylor Jenkins Reid’s ‘Malibu Rising’ is a fiery mix of celebrity culture and family drama 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z When the car’s dead, when the phone’s lost, When adulting’s sad, I simply remember the misery of school And then I don’t feel so bad. Style Invitational Week 1269: Mess with our heads 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z I suspect that big prizes cause more misery than happiness, and do nothing to improve science. David Colquhoun, Twitter-addicted scourge of scientific quackery 2013-04-21T08:00:08Z Almost too small for a single person, it once housed a fisher-family of nine, and the rooms seem steeped in their jostling misery. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z There are a few summer miseries that dampen the spirits, resulting in desperate attempts to remedy them so as to continue your summer frolics. Beware bogus treatments: Here’s how to really treat summer miseries 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Actually, of course, there is a romance to misery, and “Girls” is a step ahead of that too. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z “It was important to show the entire spectrum of experiences of the people in these camps and not convey it as a place of just monolithic misery.” ‘The Terror’ Summons the Ghosts of a Real-Life Horror Story 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In his mind, he’s still the victim, and Tracy is the cause of his misery. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z He is a close-up witness to your misery — which he helped create — and feels no inclination to make any effort to ease it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her partner uses a new job as an excuse to dump all the chores on her 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Our literature, news media and popular culture abound with dystopian portrayals of the terrorism-fuelled misery of our past, present and future. Four Lions shows human face of terrorism 2010-05-09T11:00:00Z An ugly battle became a draining siege; the victories were few, the misery fell like snow on The Wall. Pain Threshold: Game of Thrones, Hannibal and the “Not for Me” Moment 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z It can only climb the walls of its own misery.’’ T Magazine: Hello Again, Norma Jeane 2011-03-01T18:40:52Z He was sustained “in times of the greatest misery or danger” by his dream of finding “the woman for whom he had been made.” Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z The luxurious interiors of the estate’s Great House, built in 1784, were a stark contrast to the blistering misery of the former cane fields. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z While recovering from a traumatic and unnecessary Caesarean section, she pretends to work on her women’s studies dissertation and surfs the Internet for tales of human misery. A mother’s fury: ‘After Birth,’ a novel by Elisa Albert 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Always, like an underground river, run the interminable miseries of life under Mao. Profile: Wang Anyi 2011-03-30T11:57:46Z Most of the scenes in "The Humans" examine how characters are coping with their miseries. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z She wants to escape the “misery and marchin’ cockroaches” for “a whole lot of sunlight.” Remembering Ruby Dee: A Life of Artistry and Activism 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did; and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.” The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z It wasn’t so much that I didn’t sympathize with my wife, but my own misery left me less able to cope with hers. A Path to Fatherhood, With (Shared) Morning Sickness 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The house is never dirty and my life is a misery.' Walter Dean Myers, 73, a hero to young readers 2011-03-04T14:51:12Z But it made their misery even bigger, and their biggest dream even plainer, and their biggest craving ten times more to be craved. House of Earth by Woody Guthrie – review 2013-02-14T12:00:01Z Adrian Corker's haunting score of eerie, nagging strings is like an extra layer of freezing misery mist filling the valley. The Village; Perspectives: Hugh Laurie, Copper Bottom – TV review 2013-05-06T05:59:02Z “It was just like this soup of misery.” The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth. 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z And in “Almost Like the Blues,” a blues with a Latin undercurrent, Mr. Cohen sings about witnessing unbearable misery and turning inward: “I let my heart get frozen/To keep away the rot.” Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z How much amusement were we to take from the world’s miseries, even when sung? Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Even this early in his career, Ayckbourn showed that he could conjure laughter out of marital misery, and the actors in Posner's production are all the funnier for playing the situation for real. Relatively Speaking – review 2013-05-20T22:00:01Z Letters from the front were read to provide eyewitness accounts of the misery. 'The Great War's' portrayal of WWI battlefield horror proves ingenious 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z These boys don't just believe in the glamour of misery but the beauty of destruction, too. New band of the day – Ditt Inre (No 1,428) 2013-01-10T16:56:00Z The palace was an achievement of art and at the same time, a prison chamber that brought misery upon two jesters. Q&A with J.M. Sidorova, Seattle author of ‘The Age of Ice’ 2013-08-09T21:33:45Z At times, Victoria praised reciprocal monogamous love as the desired “higher order,” but she invariably added that it was not possible in most marriages and that “miseries” were “concealed beneath its deceptive exterior.” Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z We waited, my girlfriend in tears; the police now were giggling and taking what seemed to be a remarkable amount of joy from our misery. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z This, in turn, will boost food prices domestically and abroad, causing increased misery for farmers and low-income Americans and far greater hardship for poor people in countries that rely on imported U.S. grains. Real-life hunger games 2012-08-07T20:03:00Z From “A Star Is Born,” the place where misery meets triumph. The 65 Best Songs of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The second act of “Barbecue” takes some mild satirical potshots at the mania for misery memoirs, and America’s seemingly endless fascination with turning self-destruction into entertainment, but to say much more wouldn’t be fair. Review: ‘Barbecue,’ an Intervention With Love, Insults and Whiskey 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A surface tension of liquid misery is stretched over this movie, like unshed tears on a brimming eyeball. Biutiful ? review 2011-01-27T15:00:01Z Of what all this meant in terms of human degradation and misery the newspaper chroniclers were silent. Rereading: Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Doyle’s pacing in the first act is so swift that there’s little time to breathe as misery seems to visit Celie without release — losing a sister, marrying a monster, endless work, beatings, abandoning her kids. Review: Cynthia Erivo amazing in ‘The Color Purple’ revival 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z After five days, 1,200 miles and God knows how many nuclear calories, my back was sore, my heart was homesick and my guts sizzled in misery. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The solution: Rewrite it as a misery memoir. George Orwell, Mills and Boon writer: taking literary mashups to the next level 2010-05-21T12:28:00Z She is already struggling in school, so adding misery gets you more misery. Perspective | Teen is often late to school, but punishing her isn’t the answer 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The last thing you want is to witness somebody else’s misery, especially in a retail setting, where I feel like we all put on a big happy face.” Mom and Pop Stores, the Brooklyn Generation 2012-09-26T22:48:37Z In the film's slow-building early scenes, Dre alternates between stoic misery, genuine terror and pitching tantrums to his mom like the child he still is. Does the world need another "Karate Kid"? 2010-06-11T00:20:00Z She is also part of an enterprise, a system, that is spreading misery across the globe in the guise of opportunity, modernization and efficient business practices. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The walls were always two tones of faecal misery in high glass, divided by a black line.” A spy novelist toys with history in ‘Friends and Traitors’ 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms Walker captures the misery of failing to fit in, to fit into the right clothes, to fit in with the right people and their expectations. Size matters 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It won’t cost you and Mr. Parks anything but time and misery. “Finally, we demanded, ‘Let my people go'”: Remembering the bravery of Rosa Parks, on the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Their victories are stolen, and righteous people dream of a time when we will be free from the miseries of their winning, over and over again. Style Invitational: Mess with our (or anyone else’s) heads 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z We’re at the North Pole of misery and being told to walk north. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Brutal and Not Much Else in Season 2 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z But while I made the general observation that Sidibe’s success is “infuriating for those who believe fat equals misery,” I didn’t come out and call Sidibe herself fat. Is it OK to call someone fat? 2014-01-20T14:30:00Z Some readers will feel themselves thrust into the role of a misery tourist. ‘Young Mungo’ Explores Love and Violence in Emotional Technicolor 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z There’s a balance of self-doubt, humor, misery and hope that’s quite unique to Scottish music and lyricists.” Frightened Rabbit plays Showbox 2013-03-07T22:09:53Z There's an interesting scene in the play where my character criticises his father, Chris, because he blames the sea for making his life a misery, whereas Mat loves the sea, the sea is everything. Jude Law interview: 'I was an optimist. A champion of the human spirit' 2011-07-30T21:00:02Z The journey is increasingly insanitary and grim, and becomes a tragic ordeal of poverty and misery. Cannes 2013: As I Lay Dying – first look review 2013-05-20T16:11:33Z We were shooting in Pittsburgh in dead of winter, so there was a certain misery around the proceedings that just kept it very serious and Bennett’s, very serious. For these guys, it's about finding that rhythm 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z "The British are good at producing plenty of gripping, hardcore misery memoirs or they tend to write confessionally about the past." Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Live pictures of Sterling's son wailing in grief on live TV Wednesday added to the misery. Technology gives bracing immediacy to police shooting story 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But neither is as vivid as the hapless Mr Micawber in “David Copperfield”, whose homilies on the misery of debt are still quoted today. Short and sweet 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The plunge of the windhover onto its prey suggests not simply the Fall of man and nature, but the descent of a redemptive Christ into the abyss of human misery and cruelty. Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2010-04-05T09:00:00Z The weight of Brian’s gear only added to the misery he already felt from the unbearable heat, and he seemed to sweat from every pore in his body. War’s toxic legacy: Iraq, the burn pits & the tragedy the military needs to be held accountable for 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Her voice and mannerisms drenched in meretricious satire, von Fliss eschews actual rich perspective on her dad to flippantly dive into anything goes misery disguised as jokey, "scientific" inquiry into the nature of loss. Review: 'Cancer: The Musical' suffers from unappealing treatment of its subject 2010-06-10T20:54:00Z When Ted watches "Roots" and likens his own struggle to Kunta Kinte's brutal whipping, the butt of the joke is meant to be Ted, not the human misery of slavery. 'Ted 2' is overstuffed and absurd but wickedly funny 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “It was a symbol of that unhappy time, not its cause, but it served as a paradigm of the idea of dictatorship, conformity and misery.” Music: Carving Out a Bold Destiny for Fado 2011-03-25T19:38:43Z I know some people felt this way about Precious, that it was all such an unbearable wallow that there was no room to feel anything but misery. Tony Kaye's Detachment: A Miserable Education 2012-03-22T17:09:55Z But sometimes, some things you love just need putting out of their misery. Can The Simpsons survive without Harry Shearer? 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In the eyes and ears of many, it legitimised country music, which, like the blues, required soulful singing and a good dose of misery. Ray Charles – I Can't Stop Loving You 2012-05-31T20:50:00Z Bragg should be applauded for choosing the form of a novel – scene of the universal – rather than the predictable particularities of the misery memoir to tell his tale. Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review 2013-05-19T11:00:03Z Boston, like Atlanta, has just been just too horrific for its fans to find any relief from its misery in company. The Red Sox and Braves' Swoon: Behind a Baseball Collapse 2011-09-23T11:55:00Z At one point, Mr. Perry, partly inspired by a similar strategy in William Gaddis’s novel “The Recognitions,” leaves Philip and his miseries to focus on Ashley and her story. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The tortured judge’s own misery is compounded by the recent death of his wife. Funny man 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z From the get-go Mr. Hawke appears in such an advanced, manic state of misery that your instinct is to call for a straitjacket. Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z His “idea of misery,” true to form, was “to be separated from Maman.” How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z While her writing confronts real misery and heartbreak, it does so with a balancing glee at the ludicrousness of these "medical" treatments – and the silences surrounding them. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play ? review 2012-05-17T17:09:53Z For decades, men and women have striven to reach the top of the world; they have struggled on skis, hauled sleds and endured a litany of miseries — including death — in pursuit of that goal. How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Not lyrical certainty – a blind optimism in the face of overwhelming misery – but musical certainty. Trends of 2012: Classic rock returns 2012-12-18T11:24:02Z Those years were a time of misery and terror, but they were also transformative. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z Stillman began to defend himself by complaining about the prestige associated with unhappy endings, the idea that misery and disappointment are more honest and true to life. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Christopher Durang’s “Triple Trouble With Love” is a more interesting short work that features three monologues about the miseries of dating. Theater Review: Prepare to Kiss, a Bar Mitzvah Is Coming 2011-08-11T02:30:50Z Despite this misery the song ends with an unexpected and faintly frenetic guitar solo that always leaves me wanting more. Old music: Ross – Swallow Your Dreams 2013-01-31T07:00:00Z But college students, the generation facing the dual misery of unprecedented tuition levels and grim employment prospects after graduation, are feeling a special sting. After Curfew: College Students Find Creative Ways to Make Money 2011-11-25T23:19:18Z She couldn’t stand anyone being upset or saddened, and if she was the cause of that, it was misery for her. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Grief and Laughter Mingle in ‘Tragedy Plus Time’ 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The rebellion ended, as many did, in misery and mass executions. Tadeusz Konwicki: A Polish Writer and the Scars of the Past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I would love to see a show about her and Martha going to Costco and having adventures while Baskets stews in his own juices at the rodeo, marinating in his own misery. Louis CK and Zach Galifianakis’s Baskets: tears and rages of a clown 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Yet I also seize upon absurd moments, as that’s as much a part of the human condition as misery. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Judith Matloff on Why Mountains Attract War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z He’s comfortable with his behavior, but he’s also comfortable in his misery. Keegan-Michael Key Is Looking to Tell Some ‘Human Stories’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z After eating the eighth wing — coated in Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity, the third-hottest sauce — DJ Snake morphed from dullness to misery. ‘Hot Ones’ and Other Shows Parade the Rich, Famous and Oh So Vulnerable 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Having endured weeks of misery, residents such as Erin O’Brien insist they deserve bragging rights. Boston residents ask for more snow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z There is sad music, which is to say music that deploys lyrical or musical motifs meant to connote misery. The Sound of Sadness Overwhelms and Inspires Mount Eerie 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Hench doesn’t have a lot to say; but even in rigid repose, his most common posture, his body is eloquent with radioactive misery. Review: ‘Yen’ Is a Den of Family Dysfunction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In such a world, which is the real world of childhood, with its miseries, beatings and unattainable girls, Charlie Brown was a solace. Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z His misery over the loss of his son, Eddy — a talented guitarist who overdosed on heroin — never subsided. Perspective | Nobody wrote songs like Billy Joe Shaver 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z As Sam’s downward spiral takes its course, his individual despair becomes a collective sensation with everyone from social services to documentary filmmakers wanting a piece of the gathering misery. Theater Review: ‘‘Elegy,’’ ‘‘My Mother Said I Never Should’’ and ‘‘The Suicide’’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In his younger days, Joe drew a crucial distinction between the Outlaw, who rejects the rules and conventions of a hypocritical society, and the Gangster, whose actions add to the sum total of human misery. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Cohen’s quest was a serious one, but seriousness and misery are not the same thing. Eavesdropping on Leonard Cohen’s conversations with the void 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z On “Tears in the Rain,” the most epic-scale song here, the chorus sounds triumphant but is really a reveille of misery: “They all feel the same,” he shouts, about the women who plague his nights. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Kiss Land’ is the Weeknd’s New Album 2013-09-08T21:45:10Z In many ways, despite its illegality, the human misery it causes and the crime it engenders, heroin is the ultimate capitalist product. Heroin baggies: killer branding 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Sadly, disappointment at denial of perceived entitlement is already a powerful engine of contemporary misery. Films like Tooth Fairy can warp young minds 2010-05-31T09:55:00Z And I recently contributed an item to the Washington Post's annual "Spring Cleaning" feature saying that I thought it was time to put the 22-year old "The Simpsons" out of its misery. Is this show bad, or am I fickle? 2011-05-20T13:21:00Z As dual scenes of their domestic miseries unfold, Shellie and Dex appear to exchange glances, as if in their mind’s eye they are watching each other — or the life they might have had together. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z He lives in a far drearier district, where the mist of misery suffuses the atmosphere. In ‘The Killer,’ Ionesco’s Everyman Seeks a Source of Evil 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z As his career blossomed, it became both the thing that made acting a misery, at times, as well as a force pushing him to go deeper into performances that dazzled his contemporaries. In ‘House of the Dragon,’ Paddy Considine Claims the Crown 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z “Hell Broke Luce” — a title knifed into a wall at Alcatraz by an inmate during a prison riot, Mr. Waits said — details the miseries of soldiers back from the Middle East, over a semi-martial beat. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z Constitution respond to the repudiation of every decent expectation, to what Whitehead describes as “indiscriminate spite”? How, in other words, can African Americans endure in a country that preaches such idealism but delivers such misery? Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z In an eerily prescient moment, Wells threatens to assume even more power and “put this lumbering old beast of government out of its misery,” he writes. Review | An online warehouse gone rogue. Driverless cars, hijacked: Fiction that feels eerily possible. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z When the deed must be done — a foundering book put out of its misery — the unfortunate task is executed with maximum stirrings of pity and regret. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But the true beauty here is the absence of vengeance and vitriol: About Farewell is a sincere depiction of the quiet, resolute acceptance of mid- to long-term misery. Alela Diane: About Farewell – review 2013-07-25T20:30:00Z He added: “For me, they cleared the windscreen, the windshield, the misery of loss.” Here’s What We Learned From Prince Harry’s Interviews 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z On “Mad Men,” the rural world, particularly as it is conveyed through Don’s childhood, is full of false pieties and misery. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Although the misery is universal, this story is uniquely, and often amusingly, French. In ‘Adèle,’ a Young Woman Pounds Champagne, Spurns Hermès and Destroys Lives 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z They have to literally climb over the misery to get out. Review: 'Inside Out' Is the Craziest Movie Pixar Has Ever Come Up With 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Crime rates are high; so too is the general misery index. Television Review: A Man With a Cape And a City to Salvage 2011-01-06T22:54:36Z Tuning Out Sensory-isolation helmets: Airbus’s latest idea for reducing the miseries of air travel. Walkabout: Marriott Encourages Tipping; Air France Pilots Strike 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z The virus itself deserves scorn and mockery, being the source of all this misery, although it is an elusive target, being inanimate and invisible. It’s OK to Find Humor in Some of This 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z I’d scorned these types when I’d first moved to the beach, but physical beauty is a great persuader, and misery soon grows tired of its own company. The Malibu Juice Magnate 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Viewers, she told an interviewer in 1998, “just look at her as being funny, cute and a loudmouth. But it’s not how I play her. I play her with misery underneath.” Estelle Harris, ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Toy Story’ actor, dies at 93 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z The organizers say the tour has special significance in a country so marked by violence and misery. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z On the other is a world of misery, anxiety, war and greed. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z I'm not against stories that include danger and sadness, but there was just too much misery and it seemed to never end. The Sleeping Army by Francesca Simon - review 2013-04-07T14:00:00Z “I’m so ugly!” he grumbles in his misery. Theater Review: Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-10-06T00:13:55Z The film is about one particularly acute form of human misery and desperation, and a local population's humanitarian response to it. ‘Fire at Sea’ Is Not the Documentary You’d Expect About the Migrant Crisis. It’s Better. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Mixed feelings about seal, personally, but protestors certainly are missing the point that practically every other restaurant in the city is serving factory-farmed beef, pork and chicken raised in misery and killed likewise. In Canada, Hunting and Preserving an Indigenous Way of Life 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z We end with a look at Mad Men's Don Draper and Breaking Bad's Walter White: two sides of the same misery coin and the perfect demonstration of Ron Howard's assertion that "TV is becoming literature". America In Primetime, an engrossing squint at US television 2013-04-20T05:00:00Z Journalism is littered with allegations of illnesses, suicide attempts, marriage breakups and other human misery allegedly caused by the publication of information, and many of these cases are covered in the Leveson Report. Australian hoax DJs: where do you draw the line with on-air pranks? 2012-12-10T16:56:05Z Inside this cheerful space for elevated contemplation, the stereotype of the artist mired in his own spiritual misery unravels. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The misery lasts about two minutes, and then you are just alone in a giant lake. Swimming in Very Cold Water Keeps Me Sane 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Other collections of photographs documenting those years tend to focus on extremes of misery, on infrastructure breakdown, on evanescent outbreaks of colorful behavior that will disproportionately resonate in later decades. When Cars Ruled the Night: New York City, 1974-1976 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Such indulgence of the working man would bring him "indescribable misery". Macaulay by Zareer Masani – review 2013-07-22T09:00:00Z And, above all: who, who in the world, buys misery memoirs? Lucy Mangan: Heaven knows I'm miserable now 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z They are the kind company that misery loves, and therefore a source of unexpected consolation. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The signs of all this misery were there from the start. Luther recap: season three, episode three 2013-07-16T21:00:02Z Country singer Townes Van Zandt is a widely acknowledged master of misery, and his Flyin' Shoes retains its bleak power, even on Rumer's sweeter take. Rumer: Boys Don't Cry – review 2012-05-26T23:10:01Z It would place such narrow limitations upon the marriage as to generate untold misery, unhappiness, and discord upon parents, and their unhappiness must automatically be reflected in the lives of their children. Margaret Sanger: Birth control is freedom! 2013-02-18T14:45:00Z In a year that felt like wall-to-wall exhaustion and misery, we need a measure of mindless, bland snacking. The giant holiday popcorn tin has invaded your life once again 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z “Because he was so tortured. The flowers were flowers of misery. Tears of dejection and tears of joy, which is what I was feeling, what all of us were feeling.” Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Like Dolly Parton seen through the lens of Mike Leigh, Maine embodies all the bitterness, rancour and misery that lie beneath the deceptively gentle surface of the country genre. This week's new live comedy 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z “I don’t like misery of any kind,” she said. Buffy Sainte-Marie Broke Boundaries in Folk. A Documentary Tells Her Story. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z “Yes, yes,” Davies joked, “I’m really good at death and misery.” Terence Davies on avoiding Hollywood A-listers: 'I don't cast big names' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z There is plenty of misery, but there are also jokes. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But these glimmers of humor tend to gutter quickly, small candle flames smothered in the prevailing fog of misery. | 'Blood From a Stone': Discord Dished Up at Every Meal 2011-01-13T03:01:31Z She confounded Archie with her malapropos — “You know what they say, misery is the best company” — and open-hearted acceptance of others, including her beleaguered son-in-law and African-Americans and other minorities that Archie disdained. Jean Stapleton, TV’s Edith Bunker, Dies at 90 2013-06-01T21:24:50Z The final moment, as the creature asks pitifully to be put out of its misery, is a nightmarish reminder of Brundlefly’s enduring humanity. From Alien to Nosferatu: the most horrifying movie monsters of all time 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The only way to prevent misery is to not live, and that is not our desired option. Perspective | A pile of advice books won’t end your parenting anxiety. Here’s what to do instead. 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z My secular upbringing, lack of maternal desire and scientific training protected me from that misery. What I’m really thinking: the woman who is grateful for her abortion 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z In this way do fiction and reality meld in misery and triumph as, this very day, janitors in California go out on strike and even Golden Gate Bridge workers will be protesting. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z Popular follows the joys, miseries and "social fascism" of golden kids and misfits at fictional Kennedy High. Your next box set: Popular 2010-10-01T07:21:00Z How else does one cope with the tragicomedy of “Boss, Peanuts, Sorter, ” where a murderous misery wrinkles the black female worker’s face, while her white boss stands by in buffoonish bliss? Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z While he tells marvelously uncomfortable stories about awkward situations, Mr. Birbiglia does not wallow in misery, onstage or off. Mike Birbiglia Brings ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ to the Big Screen 2012-08-17T20:03:02Z “As I walk through this wicked world, searching for light in the darkness of insanity,” Costello sang, “I ask myself, is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred and misery?” Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Her portrayal of a put-upon, constantly heartbroken woman whose concern for her brother places her in a state of misery and danger is never showy and always credible. Comic Performers Play It Dark in Netflix Movies 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z And the next time you hear the song, you think of that horrible movie and re-experience the misery all over again. When movies ruin great songs 2011-03-18T23:30:00Z The vicarious thrill of his decadence and his misery; it's why men adore the character, quite as much as women. Mad about the man 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z For countless players, Dungeons & Dragons redirected teen-age miseries and energies that might have been put to more destructive uses. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Instead, they get misery, violence, and unremitting poverty. The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The opioid addiction problem in America is also a manifestation of "narcocapitalism" where multinational pharmaceutical corporations saw wealth in human misery and pain and as always chose profits over people. The reality of life in a "Dopesick" country: "It is just a state of misery" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Gina plans to apprise her father of her misery in her first missive home, but a teacher warns her, “We do not forward letters that mention complaints.” In Magda Szabo’s Magical Novel, a Statue Protects Students From the Nazis 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z She shows with bracing clarity just how cable news and social media magnify misery and exposure as never before. Review | In ‘Dear Edward,’ the world’s most famous orphan finds something to live for 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Viewers can’t help but laugh at the friends’ misery as they take emotional stabs at each other. ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ and the Difficulty of Coping IRL 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z “There’s an aspect of sharing experiences and, depending on how intense they are, some of them can make people complicit in your misery.” Helado Negro at the End of the World 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z I suspect that a good definition of "misery" might well be "pain so acute that even reading will not assuage it". Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z Given the sheer amount of misery flung at them on an almost daily basis, you'd be easily forgiven for thinking that EastEnders fans were essentially unshockable. EastEnders: did the cot death plot go too far? 2011-01-05T16:28:15Z Usually it's the same person, with a tear- or sweat-stained face stretched across the screen so that no nuance of misery will go unrecorded. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: 'Les Misérables,' Stage to Screen 2013-01-03T17:53:43Z The sweetness and open appeal of “My Country ’Tis of Thee” is gone, replaced by weariness and determination, the voice seemingly de-gendered by a sackcloth of misery. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z We make sure the customers aren’t aware of the misery behind the scenes. ‘The manager was selling coke to staff’: the truth about top restaurants 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z And McIntosh’s misery was indeed pleasurable for the gathered crowd. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z The reality was that there was no reason to continue shopping in that kind of misery. Perspective | How to trust your instincts to free yourself from overparenting 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z "The movie starts to feel like some Buddhist exercise in deliberately inflicted tedium," according to Slate's Dana Stevens, who's been far from alone in her misery. Is The Hobbit simply too long? 2012-12-12T16:15:00Z Its passive and vulnerable peasants live in misery, the outside world barely exists and their only tangible relationship is with the soil they cultivate. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z It also indulges in the common biographical fallacy of grounding adult creativity in childhood misery. Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ With Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson 2013-12-12T15:00:18Z The winter steelhead watch is on for anglers who put misery high on the priority list, and the recent rainstorms are a welcome sight. Anytime now some lucky river angler will score the first winter steelhead 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Although his siblings do not share his misery, my son is not alone; it is estimated that about 50 million Americans fight seasonal allergies. With allergy season around the corner, educate yourself now 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z I think there’s magic in misery, and that’s been lost in western culture. Dean Karnazes: 'When you’re struggling, that’s when you feel most alive' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z And there is plenty of individual misery, social malaise and economic hardship on display here. Critic?s Notebook: New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-20T22:30:26Z The group’s lyrics aren’t policy arguments, just epic portraits of misery that read a bit more realistically in their context. Music Review | Acrassicauda: A Scorpion From Iraq Trying to Sting in America 2010-02-24T21:34:00Z But gradually — at least in the best of the pieces — these cohere to form extraordinary, unforgettable visions of life in its chaotic beauty and misery. Review: ‘Viktor’ Is Vintage Pina Bausch, Complete With Gravedigger 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Their easygoing retirement bliss is a rebuke to their daughters’ midlife misery. Review: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Come Home in ‘Sisters’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The contestants show the judges videos highlighting their charity work — beauty and misery to the tunes of melancholy piano concertos. Miss World is the biggest beauty pageant you’ve never heard of. What’s it doing in Washington? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Olsen isn’t rubbing the reader’s face in misery, but rather giving an honest assessment of the psychological and physical costs of living. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The state of total misery she describes is not an exaggeration, and it goes a long way to explain the surge in marijuana-related emergency room visits in legal states. 'You're not going to die': how to survive an edible marijuana overdose 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z It is true that each one looks at stark social divisions and deep-rooted misery and dares to imagine the possibility of happy endings that real-life circumstances may not warrant. The Oscars Issue: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Shares Something With ‘Lincoln’ 2012-12-28T16:51:45Z Near the end, Benji prays, “Put me out of my misery.” Review | Mitch Albom serves up another helping of superficial spirituality 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Among the miseries to be left behind, Hughes mentions “the stupidities of color prejudice”; my own miseries were self-inflicted and of a lesser magnitude. I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel 2013-06-03T15:32:00Z Have a listen to our stream of her 2011 album Conatus, and read Paul Lester's appraisal of the women bringing a shot of good old bleakness and misery to contemporary pop. Latitude 2012: festival preview 2012-07-11T09:36:00Z Medieval history has fascinated me since I was old enough to pick up a book, exerting I suppose a sort of lurid fascination with the conflict and misery. "Game of Thrones" in real life: Actual history, just as epic as George R.R. Martin's tales 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z That is at best a recipe for misery, and at worst dangerous. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A lack of empathy but an abundance of rage 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The misery in the queue for the Genius Bar, where broken computers are diagnosed, was painful to behold. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z Data seems to revel in Lore’s misery when he says, “We are me.” ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: Consequences Abound 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z If you’re like most seasoned business travelers, you appreciate the joys of travel, but what you really want to talk about when you trade stories with fellow travelers is the misery. On the Road: ?Titanic Awards? Catalogs the Misery of Travel 2010-05-18T01:40:00Z Joseph Heller switches from war to middle-class suburban misery. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z My first thought was that, finally, I had a face to put to my misery. I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body? 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z She didn’t write a lot, two novels and two collections of short stories, but it is a body of work that lingers for its portrayals of human yearning and misery. Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z He added that women buy the papers to make them “forget their misery. If the public cannot get their newspapers on the street, they will find the inconvenience intolerable.” The Newsstands of the Future Will Have No Newspapers 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z But there's something off-putting about the way this film wallows in its characters' misery, particularly its child hero. 'Hesher': Well-acted drama drowns in misery 2011-05-12T19:25:11Z They say misery loves company -- and in the case of reality star Kendra Wilkinson, that means a lot more viewers for her reality show. 'Kendra on Top' on WEtv gets boost in TV ratings amid scandal 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Kaufman’s gift for quotidian horror remains startling; he’s a whiz at minor miseries. Review: ‘Anomalisa’ Pairs Charlie Kaufman and Lonely Puppets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s caused complete misery from the top of society right throughout. Richard Branson Joins the War Against the War on Drugs 2012-12-07T16:40:21Z So many people lost their lives, and children and grandparents, the misery of everyone. Julie Delpy on breaking motherhood taboos in "My Zoe" & seeing the last of the "Before" franchise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z It felt weird to be clinging to a part of me that also drove me to misery on a daily basis. The upside of chronic anxiety: being good in emergencies 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z You may merely be validating your own misery and unhappiness by comparing yourself to others. 7 telltale signs social media is killing your self-esteem 2014-03-11T12:50:00Z It promotes “more misery than happiness” and causes many people to yoke themselves for life to the wrong person simply to satisfy society’s dictates. Books of The Times: A Graphic Memoir That Earns the Designation 2011-05-24T21:24:59Z Until then, Arvin faces minor and major miseries, and ends up living with relatives in West Virginia. ‘The Devil All the Time’ Review: Down-Home Livin’ and Dyin’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Riley plunges into a depression and the movie becomes a race against time as her good memories crumble and misery closes in. Review: 'Inside Out' Is the Craziest Movie Pixar Has Ever Come Up With 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It's a compelling performance, even if he admits defeat a scene too early, making his demise seem less the fall of a mighty beast than a broken animal being put out of its misery. A View from the Bridge - review 2011-01-17T21:30:00Z “We’re in the middle of a fetid stream, navigating a tide of misery, poison and excrement,” she complained. ‘The Dreary Coast,’ on the Banks of the Gowanus Canal 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Funny, uplifting and without a shred of self-pity, this is the opposite of a misery memoir. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z The Divine Comedy, he thinks, “was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.” “Inferno,” a Movie Even Tom Hanks Couldn’t Save 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z One positive pregnancy test is all it takes, apparently, for a woman to be at heightened risk for agonizing death or terrifying misery. When you’re pregnant, movies and TV constantly remind you of the worst-case scenario 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z In that book, as in this film, ordinary life is impossible to disentangle from political trauma, and comedy sprouts from misery and humiliation. ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Review: Mideast Conflict as Soap Opera and Farce 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “Because misery loves company, and nachos. And margaritas.” An Online Generation Redefines Mourning 2014-03-21T21:07:21Z And when his body folds in misery, or when he travels round the stage in literal transports of grief, the pathos is extreme. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z Cusack’s character has just been dumped, and all his misery and yearning are channelled into the music he loves. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z However, you still can’t escape the sensation that Top Gear will remain a shadow of its former self until someone does the decent thing and puts it out of its misery. The one with the other TV show: ranking the Friends cast's next steps 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The approach adopted by Gary Younge, a journalist on the Guardian, is to immerse himself in the misery. Barrel of deaths 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z "The inflammatory information goes up instantly and stays forever, unchallenged and unproven, to the misery and detriment of any citizen that is a victim." Jury adds $20M more to Wynn slander case damages 2012-09-12T00:10:09Z So, for as long as I could, I made your life a misery. A letter to … My brother, whom I bullied when we were young 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z The one thing Don has managed to retain over the years is his misery radar, which is more sensitive than ever. 'Mad Men' recap: Zou bisou boohoo 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z An absorbing if uneven work, provides testimony to the high human drama of Caribbean slave trafficking and the misery endured by millions in the pursuit of sweetness. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z Young star Vadim was torn away from his mother at the age of about three weeks and packed off to some brutal Russian dance gulag where he suffered years of misery and torment. TV review: Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet; Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India; Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard 2011-03-08T22:05:01Z How beautiful the Haitians look in their misery; they always do. Books of The Times: Amy Wilentz’s ‘Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti’ 2013-01-07T22:58:50Z We are passive in our liminal misery — waiting to be distracted, entertained, vaccinated, liberated. The Most Soothing Man on TikTok 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Curtis, born Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx in 1925, could easily have been defeated by the poverty and misery of his youth. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z The trick, which Barbakow and Siara seem to have mastered on their very first try, is to find the misery of the right kind and intensity, to imply tears that match the laughter. ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In terms of misery and pride, it’s hard to know where the team ends and the rest of Queens begins, except on Opening Day; then, for three hours, people are happy. Even a Mets fan can be optimistic on Opening Day 2013-04-04T16:12:00Z There followed years of misery, in which her “soul shrank to the size of a pea,” she wrote. In Life?s Latest Chapter, Feeling Free Again 2010-10-10T21:52:00Z Their attraction is so vivid and heartfelt that it shimmers off the screen in waves and reminds you of what love felt like at 22—both the marvel and the misery. Gaga in Love With Like Crazy 2011-10-27T22:58:38Z In places it reads as if the miseries of the euro zone stem from sinister corporate forces and not misplaced idealism. On course to fail 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z There was human misery, too: the animals’ mahouts, doing this for lack of alternative employment, were – and generally still are – execrably paid and housed by the attraction owners. Thailand’s elephants say goodbye to the circus – and a life of cruelty 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Prop isn’t the right word; Wall was a living, motionless portrait of misery, her head down, her held-in and slightly turned posture telegraphing that standing by her man had no substantive meaning. Chris Christie steals the show 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Unreported World customarily contains more information and human misery per square minute than any other programme on TV, and last night's half-hour documentary by Jenny Kleeman, Sex, Lies and Black Magic, was no exception. Unreported World: Sex Lies and Black Magic (Channel 4), Baboons with Bill Bailey (ITV) 2011-04-09T08:00:02Z Scrooge’s boyhood misery and his relationship with his sister would be illuminating additions in a production that attracts children. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:17:55Z As I watched her misery unfold, a strange thing started to happen to me. Her Facebook disaster show 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z Violence is its grammar and misery its context as Billy faces the unthinkable horrors of a place where savagery rules and the dead lie alongside the living. Review: ‘A Prayer Before Dawn’ Drops a British Boxer Into a Thai Prison 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z “Everything was rising,” Charlie notes, “hopes and despair, misery, boredom and opportunity.” Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Don't be misled by the seemingly cheerful title of this South Korean film; it's a grim tale of misery on both sides of the Korean border. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z The misery of the war years would see French critics call for a "return to order" – a conservative retreat from modernism. Celebrating 1913, a glory year for modern art 2012-11-19T17:00:03Z But they don’t want to acknowledge, in any real or material way, the misery and injustice that contributed to it. Review: ‘Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine’ Takes On Race 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z When I've worked with real people who hold these secrets it invariably leads to misery. Who's afraid of the big C? 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z West Indians would never neglect elderly relatives in such a way; we would not disgracefully confine them in their last days to such institutions of misery. ‘As a child, I plotted my father’s murder’ 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Echalaz’s voice can sometimes sound edgy, but she offered a compelling account of “La mamma morte,” in which she tells how miseries caused by the Revolution have been redeemed by love. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z Beth Sutton, who has fully surrendered to her predatory instincts, is the only person who seems to understand the source of everyone’s misery. “Yellowstone,” an American purgatory: No heroes in Kevin Costner’s new Western series 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “In no way shape or form did we ever want to add to your misery.” Scott Weiland’s death shakes Gen X: Even Pavement pays their respects to the rock star they once mocked 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The narrative penalty of passing is often misery or death. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z I never really learned how to play successfully and had hoped, when I got married, that I could put all that misery behind me. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z It is astounding the lengths to which some people will go to be unhappy, to contrive their own misery, as though happiness itself were a phobic object and held terrors. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z I also think making decisions based on the expectation of a mind change is a great way to create misery. Carolyn Hax: The pros and cons of motherhood 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The sense of danger is palpable, as is the sense of misery after the most dreadful scenes. Review: War Made Terrifyingly Palpable in ‘Citizen Soldier’ 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Who hasn’t been through a painful breakup, with all the attendant subsurface miseries and emotional politics – even those of us who aren’t bicoastal entertainment-industry professionals with access to large amounts of ready cash? The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 3 – Marriage Story 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z But we’re eager to steer past questions of means and motives, toward the relief of misery, and to land on the friendly shores of storybook resolution. How the “Sharp Objects” Finale Sums Up the Show’s Excellent Feel-Badness 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z A major exponent of what might be called magical minimalism, Oliveira plumbed the mysteries of love, the miseries of aging and heartbreak, with the cinematic elegance of an old, old master. The Movies' Grandest Oldest Man: Manoel de Oliveira Dies at 106 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z But Serwer describes Trumpism as an eruption of something very old in American politics — a long history of white supremacy that has nourished itself on others’ misery. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z If you expect the misery of familial guilt-tripping will overwhelm any happiness you feel at supporting your husband, then I suggest you launch this “next phase” with a few trips to a good family therapist. On one hand, a happy spouse; on the other, a big guilt trip 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z "Saturday Night Live" experienced the same boost enjoyed and suffered by the mediasphere while Donald Trump was in office, remixing itself into a balm for our misery with its weekly trolls. In hosting "Saturday Night Live" Elon Musk pulls the supervillain ploy of taking an audience hostage 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Sure, but I can’t imagine the ensuing drama will be worth sitting through the sheer misery of this character’s existence. ‘House of Cards’ Season 5: Watched It All? Let’s Discuss 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z It came in her dizzyingly passionate description of how she loves Heathcliff, and is a pivotal moment in the plot which lurches us into the next phase of exquisite misery. Radio review: Wuthering Heights 2011-03-27T20:30:01Z And although the play’s events span decades, there’s hardly a mention of politics or culture, as if these topics might detract from the misery unfolding across nearly four hours. Review: ‘A Little Life’ Is Quite a Lot 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z On the other hand, there’s something deeply comforting about Mr. Durang, of all people, delivering Chekhov’s lost souls from their eternal misery, if only for one night. Theater Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ at Lincoln Center 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z Piers Morgan's talent was only discovered after he swapped the misery of Britain for the Hollywood sunshine. Why endure London Olympic hell when you can live the American dream? 2012-07-27T17:00:02Z Whenever the Tyrones are willing to share their misery with me in style, I'm on board. ArtsBeat: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' in London 2012-06-20T20:01:13Z For today’s socially conscious British filmmakers, northern England is more or less what southern Italy was to the postwar neorealists: a landscape of social misery, both picturesque and harsh. Movie Review: ‘The Selfish Giant,’ Directed by Clio Barnard 2013-12-19T23:03:38Z It might seem ruthless, but imagine the misery and wasted time and money that could have been spared if this practice were applied outside of X Factor acts. X-terminated 2010-03-16T16:14:00Z “This doesn’t compare in terms of human misery and cost, but it shows that racism was so pervasive it touched all aspects of our culture.” With a Voice and a Spirit, Triumphing Over Racism 2011-02-07T23:23:33Z The quagmire of exploited human misery that is the online sex industry is preferable to acts of passion that require engagement with real people. My boyfriend is addicted to porn but doesn’t want sex 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “That which promised happiness when we were one at heart,” she tells him, “is fraught with misery now that we are two.” Scrooge on a Screen Just Can’t Be the Same 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Rex is interested, but instead of celebrating this coup, Albinus, when the book opens, is in a state of “irritation, confusion and misery” over a certain young usher he had glimpsed in a movie theatre. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Just as Tommy is addicted to booze, "Rescue Me" is addicted to a misperception of what artistic freedom means, equating misery, histrionics and outrageousness with hard truth. "Rescue Me" recap: "Normal is dead and buried" 2011-07-14T11:15:00Z To hike it without misery, she said, you’ll need the proper supplies and conditioning. A first-timer’s primer for hiking Mount Si without tears 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z In short, 1970 New York was a caldron of misery, one rare bright spot being its basketball team, the Knicks, neatly integrated and en route to its first championship. The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z His life has been marked by prolonged stretches of misery. Anthony Broadwater was wrongfully convicted four decades ago — and fought to get his life back 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z I wonder which miseries reading is a refuge from, and which not? Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z Now US psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has stepped in with Manufacturing Depression, a thorough, often shocking history of how the pharmaceutical industry has pathologised misery in order to sell us the cure. Manufacturing Depression by Gary Greenberg | Book review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Its thugs simply reach into the museum of human-made misery and pull out something at once horribly familiar, and terribly alien. Immolation of Jordanian pilot aims to drag us back to barbarism 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Syracuse's urge to believe in the selkie myth is rooted in the misery of his own existence. Ondine Review: A Fish-Out-of-Water Fairytale 2010-06-03T22:50:00Z All that was missing, I found, was the misery. With no time – or money – for a summer vacation, I’m trying a naycation instead 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Publishers know there is a vast audience of ghouls out there, keen to wallow in others' misery – and pay for the privilege. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z “I don’t think it’s a case of misery loves company,” Mr. Ives said. Fitness: Rowing Revives in the Gym 2013-09-06T22:30:10Z Instead of being offered another image of a sentimentalized Ireland, British patrons were confronted with an artistic rendering of the human misery caused in good part by the socioeconomic policies of their own country. The Artist Who Dared to Paint Ireland’s Great Famine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Sunny’s misery is treated as a shrug at best and a punchline at worst. ‘Adopting Audrey’ Review: Building a New Home Out of Nothing 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z “It was like touching the misery of man. It was very intense for me.” Graciela Iturbide talks about going viral, L.A. cholos and shooting Frida Kahlo's bathroom 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Is there a reason this genre shouldn’t be put out of its misery, I wondered? Critic’s Notebook: Long-Ago Shows From Stars Like Perry Como and Dean Martin 2013-12-22T21:24:18Z He is building his contentment on your misery, saving the best cuts of life for himself. Carolyn Hax: Woman isn’t wedded to sister’s destination choice for nuptials 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z But it's an unpredictable, impromptu act that triggers the action, and Herrin's production shows how easily everything can swivel round, and how quickly misery tips into farce. Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z I saw the legacy of human misery underpinning it all. Jesmyn Ward: By the Book 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z It would be easy for Hudson to slip into the well-worn groove of the misery memoir made good, and there are points at which Tony Hogan threatens to lapse into cliche. Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, by Kerry Hudson – review 2013-07-28T09:00:00Z “The problems for me showed up in the dichotomy between my success as a physician and my miseries as a husband and a father,” he recalls. How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z If you want more punching and misery, there’s “Daredevil,” whose story is not great, but whose fight sequences are wonderful. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z As she sang it, her face contorted into a mask of dread and misery. Review: Jane Monheit, at Birdland, Alternates Latin Textures With a Moaning Cry 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The bickering between them is discordant filler, particularly given the miseries — the bullet-pocked buildings, the orphaned, the starving, the desperate and the dead — that surround the aid workers. Review: ‘A Perfect Day’ About Aid Workers in the Balkans 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Learning his lines for “Othello” while simultaneously performing in “Butley,” for instance, was “unrelenting hard slog and pain and misery,” Mr. West said. Dominic West in ?Appropriate Adult? on Sundance Channel 2011-12-04T03:49:03Z In 1977, Johnny Rotten penned the lyric “A cheap holiday in other people’s misery.” 2010-02-11T06:20:00Z So when a month passed without an offer — the noise in his head by now impossible to ignore — he decided to put an end to his misery. Alessandro Nivola Put His Foot Down and Won the ‘Many Saints’ Role Anyway 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z That show, though, was a drama, which is what “outsiders” might expect: Disability equals struggle equals nothing but pain and misery. How the Sitcom ‘Speechless’ Understands Families Like Mine 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The empathy on Brian’s mournful face suggests that, if he could just find the killer of this one victim, he could somehow expiate the misery of all of them. Movie review of Texas Killing Fields 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z Victims can inflict misery on others and people who lack self-awareness can still have insightful moments. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z Güler often documented the grit and misery of Turkey’s working class. What Ara Güler, “The Eye of Istanbul,” Saw in His Homeland 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z “At first I was thinking that misery loves company, but … it’s about feeling connected when we are physically isolated.” The Instagram project documenting the everyday drama of life under lockdown 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z It doesn’t hurt that the majority of his clients are anguished women, and that Zhenia’s warm, attentive touch purges them of their routine misery, if only for a little while. ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ Review: You’re Getting Warmer 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z With Hedda’s misery so loud and clear upfront, modulation also becomes a problem. ‘Hedda Gabler’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’: 2 Takes That Shout Subtext 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z In return, request a promise from him to pull the plug — after a year? x years? — should you develop a misery your efforts can’t fix. Embrace the adventure of moving abroad 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z “The Outsider” is dark — visually, emotionally — but absorbing, patient with both its misery and its misdirection. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z They seem to issue from a misery so unbearable that those ordinary woes can’t account for it. Knausgaard’s Selflessness 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z But beyond scrupulous detail about the numbing boredom and the agitating misery of working in such a psyche-warping environment, the play has little to offer by way of drama. Theater Review: ?Assistance,? by Leslye Headland, Revolves Around Absent Boss 2012-02-29T00:09:35Z I'm not even sure I saw all of it as I careened through, going from one monstrous interior to another, one misery after the next. The Glasgow International impact zone 2010-04-19T20:30:00Z Firth's face is a picture of misery in the opening scene, under his top hat, as if attending his own funeral. The King's Speech ? review 2011-01-06T15:00:00Z If you don’t embrace change in New York, you can drown in nostalgia and misery. The Italian Cafe Where New Yorkers Sample La Dolce Vita 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Having spent so many years as a harried and unhappy holiday shopper, I simply assumed my misery was shared by the people on the other side of the checkout counter. T Magazine: A Little Give and Take 2012-11-30T19:54:59Z Isn’t it true that for many women in places like Chillicothe, such carnal misery is an inescapable reality? Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is generally known to fans of world cinema as a purveyor of sprawling, depressing dramas packed with numerous characters, multiple intertwining storylines and heaps of misery. Like 'Biutiful'? Scarecrow suggests other Best Foreign Film nominees 2011-02-03T20:56:07Z “Can we laugh about all this bloodshed, all this darkness around us, the torture, the misery?” he pondered. For these Syrian artists, humor is essential to coping with oppression and war 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The Empress, while she is famously callous to the misery of ink-deprived Losers, actually wouldn’t hurt a fly, at least for fun. The Style Invitational: How do your captions Staake up? 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s really a misery to notice these things. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Review: The Renovations Are Only Skin Deep 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z In Remembrance, a moment of light relief amid the misery of the trenches is provided by a discussion on hem lengths. Theresa Breslin: bringing the past to life 2010-09-02T15:44:00Z “Perhaps because of the will of man, growing up in Congo is to grow up in misery, because of these endless, unjust wars.” “This Is Congo” and the Ongoing Despair in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Wolff is spared the rest of cast’s groaners like: “All this anxiety is palpable” and “human misery is a profit indicator” and “when did elite become such a dirty word?” ‘Human Capital’ Review: The Waiter’s in a Coma. Tennis Anyone? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z I mention the journey purely because of its unusual misery. Choose October's Reading Group book 2012-10-09T09:56:53Z If nothing more, I hope people get a chance to experience the occasional miseries of papers declined, ideas criticized and grants rejected directly, without their expectations guiding them toward misery first. You only hate grad school because you think you’re supposed to 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z The fallout from constant heavy drinking is worse than mere social embarrassment: illness, insomnia, squalor, violence, misery for oneself and others. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z What makes Post Malone particular are songs in which ecstasy and misery are indistinguishable: antagonists are saviors, surrender is freedom. Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z With songs like “Pablo Pueblo,” he defined the working-class Latino subject, disillusioned with urban misery after being promised the American dream. 15 Essentials From Johnny Pacheco and Fania Records, the ‘Motown of Salsa’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “Our story to me is anything beyond the perceptions there have been about Palestinians, whether they are the misery side, ‘Oh, the poor Palestinians’, or the fantasy of ‘Oh, Palestine is dangerous’,” says Kattan. Little town of Bethlehem – a travel photo essay 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z "The People Speak is the perfect response to the abject misery of my history class as a schoolboy," said Firth. History lesson 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z But the movie doesn’t really ask you to pity these guys; they feel sorry enough for themselves already, and their misery seems well earned in any case. Movie Review | 'Hot Tub Time Machine': John Cusack Leads a Cast Back to the 1980s 2010-03-25T22:14:00Z Dickens’s genius was to unite all kinds of contradictory impulses: education and entertainment, misery and fun, violence and laughter, simplicity and sophistication. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z “Suffering, Inc.” is about the misery of office work — but every word was written by Chekhov, then cut and pasted by Pony World Theatre to make a gallows-humor drama where “Uncle Vanya” meets “The Office.” To go do this week: ‘Ghostbusters,’ Elizabeth George, VR at sculpture park 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Letting us drop in on these impressive beasts is a way of raising funds to rescue more elephants from misery and exploitation. Thailand’s elephants say goodbye to the circus – and a life of cruelty 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Out of that misery came the unshrinking “Case History,” for which Mikhailov photographed Kharkiv’s most desperate people and printed them at billboard size. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Let’s put this tainted term out of its misery. It’s time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The novel opens in a fog of misery. Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila:’ an exquisite novel of spiritual redemption and love After one particularly hideous day in school, Ms. Rips slumped home to the lobby, her misery clearly written on her face. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z They’re trying to do their best for their mother, yet find it hard to understand her misery. This Week in Fiction: Lore Segal 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Audiences see a series of very different lives, but each is mired in debt and misery. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z She was paralyzed by a sense of failure, misery and rage, but only temporarily. How Erin French Made a Tiny Maine Town a Dining Destination 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z We quite like misery and are more at home with grunge than glitz. Cemetery Junction may be joyous, but Brits were born to be glum 2010-04-19T10:03:00Z If we don't start designing for these new inhabitants now, then the potential for human misery is all the greater. The urban age: how cities became our greatest design challenge yet | Justin McGuirk 2010-03-29T13:39:00Z It’s about how rock music can express not only liberating joy but, conversely and perhaps more importantly, also speak to bottomless misery and pain. ‘Wolf in White Van,’ by John Darnielle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The children palpably long to be returned to their mothers at all costs, and their absence leaves a void that is filled with misery, despair and rage. Kids in care and The Invention of Dr Nakamats 2010-10-06T07:00:00Z And yet, every year around their wedding anniversary in May, they are ambushed by tabloid reports of their misery. Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker Spend the Night Together 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z "These paintings are ways that I can act out a thought or feeling — terror, misery, death." Ed Moses, 90, prepares nonstop for a new survey at Bergamot Station 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Metaphorically speaking, Kimmy has let go of the crank only to realize that women everywhere are smiling through their own misery generation systems, a few moments at a time. We all have a Mystery Crank: “Kimmy Schmidt” Season 3 and feminism 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Anthony Hamilton’s preacherly timing magnified the suicidal misery of “Better Off Dead” and later, when he returned, the streetwise determination of “Harlem.” Review: A Bill Withers Tribute With His Soul Disciples 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In the first four new episodes, “Veep” seems intent on prolonging Selina’s anxieties, as well as her deeply narcissistic definition of misery. ‘Veep’ is so good it’s the only comedy that doesn’t need Trump jokes 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Surely her overt misery has toppled over into a formal separation. Stunts! Bumps! Fake Trumps! 25 pop-culture myths too weird to be true 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z High-speed robot trading systems make it easy for speculators to manipulate agricultural commodity prices, no matter the cost in human misery. Feeding Frenzy by Paul McMahon; A Hungry Man in a Greedy World by Jay Rayner – review 2013-05-26T07:00:05Z In it, she detailed the misery of her marriage and her passionate infatuations with a series of young men, most particularly Edward Lane, a married doctor who was a friend of the family. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z “You wanna meet in misery park/By the moon so low and lovely/With the gloom that’s above me,” he sings on “Run My Heart,” over taut mid-80s guitars accenting his loneliness. New Music: Music by the Very Best, Twin Shadow and Jeff the Brotherhood 2012-07-16T22:34:10Z Like most people living in the nation’s capital, he escaped the muggy misery of August when he could. The weather used to be good for small talk. Now it’s dead serious. 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z But that left plenty of time for misery. She brought kids joy with her ‘magical’ toys. And hid her own misery until it became unbearable. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Sabratha, an ancient port city in Libya, is the site of a prison, and of vast human trafficking and misery. The Screening Room: “Lifeboat” 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The misery is matched against exhilarating and mostly electric guitar solos, and there's redemption, of sorts, in the final Saving the Good Stuff for You, which already sounds like a country standard. Richard Thompson: Electric – review 2013-02-06T21:45:01Z Alone in the dark, with your own misery. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z One review of the first book noted – quite astonishingly – that it was "as far from a misery memoir as it's possible to imagine". All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z I wanted to get rid of misery because, ultimately, nobody likes miserable people.” This Jack Reacher Is Going to Be Big 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z To see your child entranced after a long period of misery—misery for which you bear some responsibility—is also a form of magic. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Proposals and retractions, propositions and rejections, someone breaking something and someone storming off: “Animals” plays the standards but this cover of the theme “misery loves dinner company” doesn’t chart. In Four Audio Plays, No Stages but Lots of New Voices 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z But these are just on ramps to the mother of all concerns, the one that single-handedly drives most of the coupled misery that finds its way to my inbox: She is not listening to you! Carolyn Hax: With disagreements about medicine, this couple needs boosters: Therapy 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z He believes that in the current economic climate, “many people — and men in particular — could be entering into a period of prolonged and growing misery.” Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z Works with so much misery and difficulty and death, and Saunders showing how alive they are, extracting the joy held within the gloom. Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The time-loop conceit allows the show to explore its themes without forcing viewers to confront the misery and degradation of serious addiction. Stuck on repeat: what is Netflix’s Russian Doll actually about? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The first season of “Halt and Catch Fire” is by far its weakest, but stick with the show — especially if you’re looking for an engrossing, thoughtful drama that’s not about murder and misery. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Woven together, these monologues of bereavement and confusion, illustrated with images so terrible they repel rational explanation, form a tapestry of human misery that’s impossible to shake off. Movie Review: ‘Tears of Gaza,’ a Documentary of Human Misery 2012-09-18T21:51:22Z Other painters found the basic form of Millet’s workers compelling but balked at their misery and abjection. Review | It’s easy to see Millet’s influence on other painters. It’s harder to see his genius. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z There would be no happy twilight for Brooks and Barney, for whom love triangles remained the governing geometry, to the women’s alternating elation and misery. Review | How Capri became a hotbed of hedonism 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z There's enough misery and woe in the world without my adding to it. T Magazine: Bon Mots 2012-11-09T16:00:43Z In structure and tone, “Moonlight” sets itself against the earnest, austere naturalism that has become a default setting for movies about social misery. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z But just below the surface of all that adolescent male vitality run crosscurrents of anger and misery. Review | ‘Bridge of Clay,’ by ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak, was 20 years in the making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z And when this event happened, it became the sort of antidote to all the misery and dread that a lot of people had been experiencing. "Four Seasons Total Documentary" captures the Trump campaign's emperor-has-no-clothes moment 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z They fuel the power and eloquence of the many passages in the book that capture the chaos of the United States invasion and the snowballing misery it has inflicted on Iraqi civilians. Review: ‘War Porn’ Widens the Field of Vision About the Costs in Iraq 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Even if we ignore such attitudes, the uncomfortable reality is that the western publishing world is fascinated by such tales of female suffering and misery. Misery memoirs: why is it different for Muslim women? 2013-04-18T11:14:50Z He saw the blues, and jazz, as an uplifting response to misery. Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z And both issues are less important to the success of this endearing little movie than Donna’s comic spin on her miseries and Slate’s bravura turn in the title role. REVIEW: Obvious Child: Do Not Abort This Movie! 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z For all of Marhoul's bold conception and presentation of the misery, he is thankfully, never manipulative. "The Painted Bird" is a brutal masterpiece depicting the horrors and inhumanity of war 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Nothing complicates the celebration of a cultural high-water mark like the knowledge that we owe it to a rising tide of human misery. Review: ‘Fives and Twenty-fives,’ by Michael Pitre, a tale of dangerous duty in Iraq At one point in the book, Harry tells his therapist that he has no addictions, and she corrects him that it’s obvious he has one: the press, which has made his life misery. Perspective | Prince Harry doesn’t need to explain himself anymore 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z She’s left to raise their son alone, condemned to misery by her unshakable belief. ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ Review: Death, and Life, on the Nile 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Despite the misery that created it, “Vulnicura” is ultimately a vehicle of empowerment and affirmation. Björk's Healing Music 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The chapters devoted to her star-making role in “Evita” illuminate both the glory and the misery, and they make for often hair-raising reading. Books of The Times: Glory and Misery on the Way to Stardom 2010-10-07T22:52:00Z Richard makes a few journeys, which have clearly been selected to find misery, not joy. Dispatches: Train Journeys from Hell 2011-03-22T08:00:04Z I knew my misery was completely unjustified, but I couldn’t move. “A few weeks after I graduated, I tried to jump in front of a train”: My bipolar disorder nightmare 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Lancashire, Turner tells us, was already over-run with itinerant preachers and tiny sects broken from Methodism, but Young and his companions were more eloquent egalitarians, offering economic as well as spiritual solutions to proletarian misery. Mitt Romney: Disgrace to Mormonism 2012-10-28T23:00:00Z By the time we were on the top floor I thought I was going to implode with the misery of it all, a feeling that lingered for hours after the play had finished. Edinburgh fringe theatre: Sub Rosa; Of Women and Horses I Have Known; Long Live the King; The Author; My Romantic History; Speechless 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z He had big shoulders, curly hair, and a silver Camaro whose cassette howled "everything about you is bringing me misery." A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z This has been a dog, with misery piled on top of disappointment piled on top of misery. From Top Gear to The X-Files: the six worst TV shows of 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The second season has been more of the same, still focused on “bad men and hard women,” stumbling through their misery. Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “But in his hands, you are impressed by the dignity, rather than the misery.” Louisa Jo Killen, Folk Singer With a Booming Tenor, Dies at 79 2013-08-26T02:29:11Z She found happiness hard to recall most of the time — misery was stickier, puzzling, more intense — but she could be happy in the moment.” Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z His way commits you both to being stuck and miserable — or, I should say, it commits him to that, and limits your choices to stagnant misery or divorce. Carolyn Hax: She chose happiness over a higher-paying job — and pays the price 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z But the experiences of those characters are largely rooted in misery. You can be queer but you can't be happy on "Ted Lasso" 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z William even references a song by the famous goth/misery pop band the Smiths. Hell House 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The show within a show is relentlessly optimistic, light, and full of commercials targeting an audience that despite all the misery unfolding around it only wants to be happy. Trump satirist Sarah Cooper's new Netflix special is a joyous acknowledgement that we're not OK 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z He suspects the Russians are trying to “break” him, employing a method of creating misery, “tried & true & right now I feel it in my bones, my soul, it teems throughout my body.” This American teacher also sits in a Russian jail, worried nobody cares 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z For if secularism resulted in moral deterioration, then highly secular societies would be decaying bastions of crime and misery, while the strongly religious would be shining beacons of liberty and harmony. The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Secularism doesn't destroy society or moral order 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z They arrived like ambassadors from exotic lands to reassure us: Yes, there is misery in the world, but not where you live. Perspective | Trump spoke of images he’d ‘never seen before.’ Now there are mass graves in New York. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z And yet the most affecting songs on III don't sound like a band raging at the outside world, but rather experiencing a very personal kind of misery. Crystal Castles: III – review 2012-11-08T21:30:02Z Billy looks forlorn when we see him in the coda but he's likely not done making misery for everyone. Explaining Exactly What Happened at the End of 'Stranger Things 2' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Instead, according to Hadot, “philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish and misery.” Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z That makes the collateral damage, which a momentarily emerged Charly puts out of its misery with her bare hands. At long last, "The Long Kiss Goodnight" is getting the holiday affection it deserves 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Linking childlessness and misery is risible but inevitable as the sisters replay the incident. Review | Motherhood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in ‘Pramkicker’ 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Except for one minor character’s elegant Manhattan apartment, you don’t sense the city’s extremes of luxury and misery or feel the tension between the haves and have-nots. ‘Chinese Puzzle,’ a Comedy Directed by Cedric Klapisch 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Like a healer, he helps us to come to terms with the miseries he ventilates on our behalf. Pl?cido Domingo: 'I am a very happy man, but I love to suffer on stage' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z More satisfying to him is the poetry that abject misery and grief can inspire. ‘On Consolation’ Searches for Solace in the Face of Grief and Misery 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z In December 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a young fruit vendor in a rural city, set himself alight to protest his economic misery and harassment by police, the whole nation caught fire. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z The thrill of thievery is balanced by the abject misery of incarceration. 'Sutton': conscience-ridden bank robber becomes a national hero 2012-09-19T21:10:11Z “It’s misery. It’s one of the worst ways to end a campaign you could think of,” one campaign staffer fielding the calls said, calling the prank calls traumatizing. In case you missed them: the Guardian's unsung heroes of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Similarly, title track “Days Go By” serves as cookie-cutter inspirational rock circa “Can’t Repeat”, but at least it’s an uplifting placeholder in a record chock full of uninteresting “misery loves company” tidbits. Veteran Punk-Rockers The Offspring Let Days Go By on New Album 2012-06-29T15:45:58Z At 20, she wore her hair in a mullet and dressed "in neon that hugs in all the wrong places," turning her awkwardness and misery into self-display, and then that self-display into art. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “In her mind, she saw the misery which was so sure to come,” Helen recalled. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z If the lyrics tend slightly towards angst-by-numbers, never mind: Dinosaur Pile-Up are a young band, and the joy in their racket rather undercuts the protestations of misery. Dinosaur Pile-Up: Growing Pains 2010-09-30T22:20:00Z To put the case negatively, the wrong kinds of buildings can inflict misery and frustration. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z But it appears that the alternative is more misery. Potty-eschewing preschooler’s bathroom time turns into a battlefield 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z It will be a playlist of eternal aural misery. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z This may be illusory — sometimes misery just compounds — but it is deeply baked into how the Western world conceives of the season. Perspective | Joe Biden warned of a ‘dark winter.’ Why does living in it feel so . . . unreal? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Her demeanor was less that of a politician than a game warden who has encountered a dying animal in the woods and now must club it out of its misery. Perspective | Liz Cheney understood the assignment 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z As Bloch later observed, he was "saturated" with the misery of the world when he wrote it. Bloch, Bridge, Hough: In the Shadow of War – review 2013-04-06T23:06:23Z All those years of misery the wretched Terry caused his parents – oh, Jack's bitter resignation! Corrie on stage? Bless my hairnet! 2011-02-09T21:31:01Z Photograph: Fox Searchlight/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar Me and You touches on heroin addiction and the miseries of adolescence but it marks a lightening of tone compared with much of Bertolucci's back catalogue. Bernardo Bertolucci: 'I thought I couldn't make any more movies' 2013-02-01T07:00:00Z “Look, kid, do yourself a favor and put Steinbigle out of its misery,” Stein recalls him saying. Seymour Stein’s “Siren Song” Recounts a Career Co-Starring Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads, and the Smiths 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The video above charts my slide into misery as I struggled to stick to Soylent for the whole period. My week on Soylent: 'I was irritable, grumpy and a general pain in the arse' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The “misery” that is proposed as a source of comic inspiration — and that not all of the comedians admit to — is fairly circumscribed. Review: ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ Puts Stand-Up in the Spotlight 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “Very few filmmakers have managed to smile so convincingly in the face of misery and fatality,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z I knew misery while pregnant with Madison; I acted psychotic while pregnant with Frankie. Plastic surgery after the baby 2013-04-27T22:00:00Z The movie seems so excited about rubbing the audience’s face in misery as to feel perverted. Tony Kaye's Detachment: A Miserable Education 2012-03-22T17:09:55Z Art Angels” is a slippery thing that pulses with malice and misery and weirdness and doubt; it contains multitudes. Grimes wages battle with herself on the wild and wonderful ‘Art Angels’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z "And what a journal should be is a document of misery." 'Portlandia' gets greenlight for a second spoofy season 2011-02-14T21:55:03Z His new book is a toothsome evocation of something Clive’s sister says to him, as if speaking about life’s joys as well as its steep miseries: “No one gets over anything.” Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z But instead of turning these portraits into misery biographies, she weaves them into the broader context of the time. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-01-04T22:55:08Z The film hinges on Adam’s ability to kill: He couldn’t put the fox out of its misery, but his stomach becomes stronger as he proves his masculinity through brute strength. ‘Barbarians’ Review: Unexpected Visitors 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z But be prepared for an unrelenting blast of misery without a lot of context. Review: In Documentaries on Syria, Much Despair and a Dash of Hope 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z After all, how can a loving God cause indiscriminate human misery? Are natural disasters part of God’s retribution? 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z It is a strange world," Bram Stoker wrote in "Dracula," "... a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. How Charlie Sheen remains a TV superstar 2011-01-31T13:32:00Z Opening the festival on Friday at 7:30 p.m. will be a discussion on the joys and miseries of conscious and unconscious thoughts led by a neuroscientist. Spare Times for Oct. 12-18 2012-10-11T22:15:05Z Then, mischievously: “Who knows what kind of misery lurks within?” Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Some of the best scenes in these new episodes show Debbie falling apart in magnificent style, white wine in hand, and Gilpin once again makes her character's misery as funny as it is palpable. “GLOW” returns to Netflix with an excellent season 2, right when we need it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But in the bigger picture, his misery is trivial. Review: Ben Stiller Is a Dad With a Bruised Ego in ‘Brad’s Status’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z A picture of misery … portrait of Elizabeth I, c. Fading queen 2013-02-13T15:46:04Z Sian Brooke captures perfectly Jean's wan adjustment to the single life, and the misery of spending her days as a garage-cashier staring at a brick wall. Ecstasy - review 2011-03-16T00:17:46Z And like Marclay's Clock, the exhibition is full of mad stuff, lyricism, pain and misery and laughter, things you've seen before and things you never want to relive a second time. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z Inside explores a world between prison walls, its violence, its misery and its agonising moments of hope, with the five male dancers powered by the guitar/noise/glitch band 65daysofstatic. This week's new dance 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z When they sit by themselves alone, glowering in the dark, these guys wallow in existential misery, as do all of the X-men and the Avengers. Keep your man-child antiheroes: The new crush-worthy guy is the quietly competent, grown-up man 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z This museum “honors several pioneer doctors from the 19th century,” devoted to the College’s mission to “advance the science of medicine and to thereby lessen human misery,” Mütter curator Anna Dhody says via email. In Philadelphia, a medical museum puts the human body on display 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The great Venezuelan hero Simón Bolívar is attributed with saying that “the United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” Are Horses More Useful to Humans Than Pigeons? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z When Phil writes his misery memoir Mummy: Wigs, Wallops And Woe, Peggy's name will be on every page in bold letters. Grace Dent's World of lather 2010-08-27T23:06:00Z No. But sometimes, misery loves company and recruits it too. 20 Things Nobody Tells You When You Graduate College 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z If you want something with emotional heft but not the baggage of prestige misery, watch this. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Mr Collins, "often moving wrong without being aware of it", gives her "all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give". Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z As I entered a rocky puberty, followed by disastrous teenage years, these movies were like my internal soundtrack, each one investigating the subject more deeply as my own hormonal misery deepened. On the set of Dumbo with Tim Burton: ‘Like meeting up with your teenage boyfriend’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z A major figure in the world of psychology, Seligman describes how he turned his practice from one that focused on eliminating misery to one centered on gratitude, resilience and hope. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z As Season 4 begins, Kelsey and Josh discover that misery loves company — maybe too much so — and give Liza a new name: “Lies-a!” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Okja,’ ‘Younger’ and ‘Broadchurch’ 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z For some, it’s a lifeline – somewhere to socialise, sing and escape whatever misery they’re currently going through. One night on the streets: a portrait of homelessness in Britain 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z In Crystal Pite’s “Flight Pattern,” those bodies are for the most part indistinguishable, a seething human mass of misery and hope, refugees whose desperate desires, fears and losses are subsumed by the attempt to survive. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z He seems firmly in the grip of method acting, using his slim body and increasingly strained voice to channel Ivanov's raw and pointless misery. Ivanov – review 2012-11-12T18:01:24Z Readers remain drawn to so called “misery memoirs” — for good reason: They are often quite well done. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Even when rain does ruin your party, how much of your suffering is the result of you prolonging the misery with your own negative judgments about the experience? 4 Ways of Choosing Happiness from Within 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The film straddles the fine line between the misery and humor in Kate’s situation. Smashed's Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Scream Queen to Oscar Contender 2012-10-12T12:00:52Z “You need to embrace your empty nest and not wallow in your misery,” Ms. Mellor said. The Empty-Nest Book Hatchery 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Any tiny gaffe, and she’s wailing in misery or jumping to absurd conclusions. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Recovery of an MMO Junkie’ 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z With her mother “captivated by the glitter” of Lavien, the 16-year-old Rachel quickly found herself pressed into “a hated marriage” that would cast the rest of her life in misery. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z There was plenty of sadness and misery in Brown’s life, much of it self-inflicted. Godfather of Soul Inspires the Spirit of James McBride to Write a Biography 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Bucky is barely hanging on and doesn't believe he's entitled to anything better in life but misery. "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" explodes with action and hints at probing America's identity 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z |
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