Sentence examples for a misery on from inspiring English sources

How often do we hear of people's lives being made a misery by the pestiferousness of trolls, when the obvious remedy is to withdraw from whatever social medium the trolls are making their life a misery on.

He also questioned "why imprisonment is not used more effectively at an early stage for those who make the lives of the law-abiding a misery on a more routine basis".

In some of the funnier asides, Christie caricatures herself as a militant women's libber whose gimlet eye for discrimination makes life a misery for "her fictional on-stage husband".

He has made life a misery for people on low incomes by cutting entitlements back to the bone, but the housing benefit bill has continued to rise.

If that makes the book sound mawkish or exploitative, or a misery memoir on a grand scale, it never feels at all like that.

Fred Robson, Shelton, Conn.: I don't think I could sit through four hours of a misery miniseries on the Holocaust produced by Hoot Gibson.

Gubaidulina intended her work as an eagle-eyed view of a riven world abject misery on the one hand, empty-headed pleasure-seeking on the other and she found a potent metaphor for her vision.

The former Soviet Union has become such a disaster that Eastern Europeans now speak of a "Second Iron Curtain" -- meaning a curtain of misery on their eastern frontier.

He is then struck by a vision of misery: on the beach, a white horse covered with sores is swaying, about to die.

And if it's hard for the modern mind to understand why a good God would allow such misery on a temporal scale, imagining one who allows eternal suffering seems not only offensive but absurd.

Anything less than Özil could mean a misery-riot on the streets of North London.