Sentence examples for a level of misery from inspiring English sources

And Japanification it is, except with a level of misery the Japanese never had to endure.

He added: "We had hoped that the government would respond to these demands or at least acknowledge the failure of its policies, which led Iraq to a level of misery it had not seen in modern history.

Of course, we can fit an occasional bout of even extreme suffering into an otherwise happy life (see Peg O'Connor's recent post on William James and the "misery threshold"), but there's a level of sustained misery that wipes out happiness.

These are offset by a "good" (GDP per capita growth), which is subtracted from the sum of the "bads". A higher Misery Index score reflects a higher level of "misery," and it's a simple enough metric that a busy president, without time for extensive economic briefings, can understand it at a glance.

We had only been locked up for about a week, but the level of misery we experienced is nearly impossible to describe.

The past is a place containing no small level of misery.

While sports, commuting and weather can be considered trivial by many, they can be the determining factor in the level of misery for a significant number of people.

And Americans face a level of unemployment, and sheer human misery, far worse than anything Japan went through.

Control of the camp has given Isis its first foothold in the Syrian capital of Damascus, adding another level of misery to residents who have already survived a two-year government siege, starvation and disease.

"With the level of misery we are living with, I really feel social media is a magic solution.

"Really hard to overstate level of misery radiating from several members of White House staff over last few days," the Times' Maggie Haberman recently tweeted.