Sentences with phrase «degrees of misery»
These statistics depict an extent of deprivation, a degree of misery, a sense of hopelessness and despair, a fundamental alienation that is difficult for that great majority of Americans who lack direct experience with this social stratum to comprehend.
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He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»
It increased the warmth and power of action in the blood to such a degree that it gave him such pain and misery in his legs that he could not bear it.
Like an influenza outbreak, happiness — and misery too — spread through social networks, affecting people through three degrees of separation.
Meanwhile, the other students of Brookside High experience various degrees of euphoria and misery leading up to the dance.
«For the most part, the dancing manias [after the dreadful miseries of the Black Death,] present more of the characteristics which we associate with epidemic infectious diseases of the nervous system.They seem, rather, like mass hysterias brought on by terror and despair, in populations oppressed, famished and wretched to a degree almost unimaginable today.»