Sentences with phrase «levels of misery»

Lucius is certain that Heloise's new invention will cause untold levels of misery.

It contains misery as well, a level of misery that we adults know only rarely.

Years ago, I coined a phrase, which I continue to live by: The weight of your bag is equally proportionate to your level of misery on the road.

The friend I was staying with in New Orleans, who lives in Bywater, suggested I use the bartender as a metonym for the entire city because when things fail here, as they often have, an unproductive level of misery gives way to mere acceptance and everyone just gets on with it however they can.

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Lastly, he shows a level of humanity when he puts Mance Rayder out of his misery rather than letting him slowly burn to death.

In a report Friday, he said that the firm's «bitcoin misery index» — a gauge of how investors feel about prices — is currently at 19, the lowest level since 2011.

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.

Their misery was not at the level of money or social position, which was high, but at the level of contempt.

At this level, Whitehead writes, «human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.»

The theological principle that a man, by his own strength, can not even sustain the basic ethical level of natural principles is the rationale for the misery that we are living through today.

Redknapp's misery did not last long, though, as straight from the kick - off, his side responded showing the levels of character that we had only previously seen with Team Crooks and in Brendan Rodgers team talks.

«Even though we learn to blame others for our unhappiness and misery in relationships, we also know at some unspoken level how our masculinity has limited and injured us as we touch the hurt and pain of realizing how little we seem to feel about anything.»

«With BAU (Business As Usual) humanity faces a very abrupt future of misery; including rapid 5 to 9 meter sea level rise taking out coastal cities around the planet.

Carbohydrates and added sugars were looked at as the new food demon, causing inflammation, high blood glucose levels, weight gain, and a life of misery.

Rarely visualized in such detail (particularly with the monotony and miseries of breastfeeding, sleeplessness, deteriorating bodies and energy levels, and countless other stresses) and virtually never a sole conflict, motherhood is essentially roasted here, making it as easy to laugh at Marlo's discomforts as it is to empathize.

But instead of toning down the bleak misery of his rookie film, Iñárritu cranked the torment levels up to ten for an experiment in onscreen mourning.

If hell is other people, then high school is a four - year journey through all nine levels of Dante - ish misery.

The dominant model of development has entirely failed to lift large sections of humanity out of unacceptable levels of poverty, misery and desperate want.

On the level of a common man, education for life shall help us overcoming fears and misery, showing us how tremendously beautiful and worth living our life is, with all its lights and shadows.

Such a national debate is long overdue given the huge amount of human misery that has been caused by the level of overvaluation that we as a society permitted to take place in the late 1990s (with both the experts and the ordinary investors listening to their advice sharing in the blame).

As well as the few single - player levels, there's also a survival mode which involves fighting off waves of enemy craft, a number of multiplayer modes with different objectives, and options for squad based play and player vs AI battles to ease the misery of playing against real people.

They do it because (1) they can and (2) at some level they think it is perfectly OK for them to live off the misery of others.

Feelings along the lines of delirious levels of fury, profound misery and a fairly good amount of second - hand embarrassment for those in the room were inevitable and rampant.

In the meantime, prudence suggests that we concentrate on the ongoing disaster of global energy poverty first as it is a certain disaster that is happening now and forces 1/3 of the world's population to live in near prehistoric levels of poverty and misery.

The Bitcoin Misery Index, introduced by Fundstrat a week ago, dropped to the second lowest level of the past eight years, which implies that the price is going to recover: the lower the index is, the better the outlook for Bitcoin.

«If you make everything okay for your kids it seems like it takes [away] the sense of doom and failure and misery on just so many levels,» the actress said, according to New York Daily News.