Sentences with phrase «decade of misery»

They made the postseason after more than a decade of misery.

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

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After misery and hatred at the hands of hateful Christians (concrete examples can be provided) for over five decades, I have nothing but loathing to return to those mean viscous Christians.

Maybe the whole misery began with the toleration of adultery some decades ago.

For two decades, liberation theologians blamed Latin American misery on «capitalist methods» such as markets, private property, and profits, and they looked for economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.»

Based on decades of Panksepp's research, the hypothesis is that the misery of depression is related to errors in the brain mechanisms that ensure emotional attachment.

A decade into its perpetual franchise, Marvel's purple - tinted sociopath with a corduroy chin, Thanos (Josh Brolin), appears to collect the Infinity Stones so he can end his misery, and ours, with a snap of his fingers and eliminate half the life in the universe.

But Logan Lucky works because the stakes are higher than they initially seem: Just as Danny Ocean was really striving to reclaim his lost love, Jimmy and Clyde Logan are looking to disprove decades of family misery.

A sometimes cautionary, often humorous, and always sad tale involving a friend, sibling, or father who brought home a brand - new Fiat decades ago only to be subjected to years of breakdowns, engine fires, and other mishaps until the car finally put the owner and itself out of their mutual misery by rusting into the ground.

Over the course of three decades he established himself with grotesque, existential canvases that spoke of the misery of new freedoms, urban malaise, and the diasporic experience.

«Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»

Why would the world's politicians of the left and the left / liberal biased media present the case that the world, in recent decades, has suffered untold misery at the hands of climate change when the facts are just the opposite.