Sentence examples for a shared misery from inspiring English sources

Which brings me to one of several points in the elevator's favor: A shared misery that brought residents together in close quarters at frequent and tedious intervals, it functioned as a major social artery.

I was describing that thing of a mixed neighbourhood, of shared misery and shared joy.

They divorced in 1994 and a year later, she published the details of their shared misery in a memoir.

The production, which Mr. Wolfe wrote with the composer Michael John LaChiusa and also directed, was the season's second adaptation of the 1928 poem by Joseph Moncure March, which chronicles a debauched evening of orgies, shared misery and murder.

Dublin, similarly – and this goes for the expat as much as the locals – has a way of bringing people together in shared misery.

In the Virginia colony of the mid- and early-1600s it was not unusual for blacks and white indentured servants to come together in the shared misery of bondage, he said, before the development of a distinct slave society and hardened racial attitudes.

Its sole consolation lay in shared misery.

In this world of shared misery, all things are relative.

Uh-oh.New York football fans, joined together in shared misery.

It was the camaraderie underground — the deep fellowship of shared misery.

If my roommate and I acknowledged, over her homemade manicotti or my Lean Cuisine, our shared misery, the moment was brief, and whispered.