Sentences with phrase «hours of misery»

I returned my Kindle after just 24 hours of misery.

Hours of misery due to uncomfortable feet, awkward lonely moments, nagging feelings of insecurity... SIGN ME UP!!!

Lack of detail at the outset cost hundreds if not thousands of hours of misery for the poor civil servants who dealt with it.

Not exact matches

He slept two to three hours each night and soon discovered the isolation and misery that goes with not having a warm bed of your own.

The electro - mystic misery of the waves alarm thirteen times in two hours could fairly be described as sonic battery.

Then they all settled in for that phase of labor called Timing the Contractions, three hours of mounting misery in which Saberhagen alternately watched Saturday morning cartoons — Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner — and coached Janeane in breathing techniques designed to ease her pain.

About as sweet as spending a fruitless half hour trying to calm a crying baby who doesn't want a load of cold, hard, plastic eggs touching her skin, making her chilly, and forcing her to share her misery with you through some screechy vocal stylings.

Ed Miliband will tomorrow (Tuesday) declare that a One Nation Labour government will outlaw the exploitative use of zero hour contracts that make life a misery for thousands of families.

But given what we do know, who are the ladies to whom David turned to during his dark, jealous hours of marital misery?

«The bane of many opiates and sedatives is this, that the relief of the moment, the hour, or the day, is purchased at the expense of to - morrow's misery,» he wrote.

Amid the misery and exhaustion, science after hours can still produce moments of serenity, even euphoria.

We had been working 14 - hour days in the makeshift intensive care unit at the Buen Samaritano clinic on the outskirts of Jimaní in the Dominican Republic, and none of us had ever before seen, much less been responsible for, a unit so laden with human misery.

I ended up going in to the hospital at hour 30 and begging my midwife to put me out of my misery.

They may be getting rich of the world's misery, but they have more of our sympathy than the coke - snorting, yacht - owning predators of Martin Scorsese's three - hour epic ever did.

This is two hours of pure misery, but it's brilliantly acted and impeccably written to be a layered and complicated mess of emotions.

The post went viral within hours, and the huntress made a public statement, indicating that she had killed it as it was «old and close to death» — implying she meant to put it out of its misery, and that the giraffe did not go to waste as the locals also used its fur, meat and bones.

But now, instead of inducing stress and misery through mind - numbing 60 - hour work weeks or lack of work / life balance, firms are inflicting pain through mass layoffs.

Apart from the innovative and courageous outliers - whose numbers I hasten to add are increasing all the time - and who have put the billable hour out of its misery by completely changing their business model - most firms apply a bandaid approach and continue to work within, and therefore prop up, the existing leveraged based business model.

legal practice is bad because of the billable hour and because of general misery and unhappiness

He slept two to three hours each night and soon discovered the isolation and misery that goes with not having a warm bed of your own.

See a picture of how I felt after my 36 - hour trip home finally ended here, with a bit more jetlag misery here.