Sentences with phrase «depths of misery»
A lot of reality TV, however accidentally, manages to mine the depths of this misery with its wholesale fascination in stock characters trading in stalled careers (Brett Michaels, etc.), desperate grabs at being noticed (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), and useless and misguided attempts at falling in love (Brett Michaels again, for some reason, and also The Bachelor and its numerous spinoffs).
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He is unabashed in his depictions of the lowest depths of misery and the dark sides of humanity, yet always maintains a sense of humor.
It's just so damn depressing, and more than once feels rather exploitative, plumbing the depths of misery in an attempt to create drama.
«Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.»
Even in the depths of misery — in 2000, say, or in 2004 — the party has shown an alarming capacity for self - delusion, deploying all that outdated tripe from the age of deference about the secret weapon of loyalty.
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HGI may provide us with the power of knowledge and the opportunity for attaining a new and unprecedented level of human health, but it may also provide us with opportunities to exercise our greed and shortsightedness so as to open up new depths of human injustice and misery.
He glimpsed again the tiny clawing hands, grabbing at fronds of ferns from the brook - side, and all of it, the whole creature, tangled in green threads of time, plummeting, twisting, swimming, down to the depths, right down through the misery of the last century.
After seeing the work of the four artists shortlisted this year, many critics said the prize, for British artists under 50, had plumbed new depths, was run by a self - selecting cabal and should, after a 17 - year run, be put out of its misery.