Sentences with phrase «abject misery»

The phrase "abject misery" means feeling extremely unhappy, helpless, and in a very bad situation. Full definition
In cultic language, the event is recalled in abject misery in the same Psalm which extols the grace of God in the David - Zion covenant:
Perhaps this was why Osborne seemed so much more relaxed than last year, when he sneered and grimaced his way through a supercilious speech of abject misery.
While the movie's tone never dips too, too deep into abject misery, there are enough moments of solemnity that when a joke about T'Challa's dad sandals pops up, you're not really prepared to laugh quite that hard.
Belong there, should suffer there, and should die in abject misery there.
I am definitely getting better at dealing with it all, but the slightest setback will totally reduce me to abject misery again.
While TV shows such as «Westworld» and «The Handmaid's Tale» were dragging audiences kicking and screaming through the muck of abject misery and hopelessness, cinema was taking people by the hand, reacquainting them with joy, warmth and especially the importance of family.
Unfortunately, right now, millions of these smart and social animals are crammed inside restrictive «gestation crates» and forced to live nearly their entire lives in abject misery and deprivation at Walmart pork suppliers nationwide.
It's an area overrun by poverty, yet despite the tragic circumstances there's a poetic beauty to Dayveon that prevents it from descending into abject misery, even when Day, despite the best efforts of his sister's boyfriend, Brain (Dontrell Bright), falls in with a local gang; drawn in by their sense of brotherhood and camaraderie.
The only thing that gets me through my abject misery about the end of summer is the NFL, specifically the Eagles.
It begins in spring with a close - up of a face locked in abject misery: Asked by a counselor how happy she is on a scale from one to 10, Janet (Imelda Staunton) says one, in effect setting the tone for much of the film.
Passage of this bill would have gone far in cutting down the abject misery of many suffering dogs and cats in that state.
As Christoph Grunenberg has written, Brown's paintings «live on the productive tension between extreme glamour and abject misery, confronting the viewer with a set of mysterious paradoxes» (C. Grunenberg, «Capability Brown: Spectacles of Hyperrealism, the Panorama and Abject Horror in the Painting of Glenn Brown,» Glenn Brown, exh.
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