Sentences with phrase «in general misery»

Now to this were added, more and more frequently, headaches, painful joints and burning pain over my body in a general misery.

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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.

It's a great comedy about this young Irishman who's not just dealing with his own demons with what he's done, but also his general misery as he has to live in Bruges for the next few days.

Compounding their misery is the continual presence of Alyssa's divorced sister, Gwen (a wickedly acerbic Mary - Louise Parker), who makes little secret of her disdain for marriage in general and for Nick in particular.

The film isn't interested in subjecting the animal to physical cruelty but it surrounds the poor thing in a world of misery, disappointment, regret and general negativity.

There are, in general, two flavors of value investing: buy cigar butts on the cheap (wretched companies whose stocks more than discount their misery) or buy great companies at good prices.