The phrase "acute misery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of intense or severe suffering or distress.
Example: "After losing her job, she fell into a state of acute misery that seemed to consume her every waking moment."
Alternatives: "intense suffering" or "severe anguish."
Psychoanalysis once promised to turn acute human misery into ordinary suffering; positive psychology promises to take mild human pleasure and turn it into a profound state of well-being.
The Depression had made workers' misery acute, and, for the first time in history, a country, the Soviet Union, was ruled in the name of its workers.
She boarded all her school life, suffered acute bouts of homesickness and misery, tried to run away.
I am reading slowly because the book is so acute about the forms of human misery that it should come with a teddy bear and the numbers for suicide hot lines.
What drives both stories is a sense of human misery, whether of the acute or chronic sort.
If your own sense of fairness is disrupted frequently enough, you'll end up stupefied like I did with an acute case of work-induced Political Misery Syndrome (PMS) -- an epidemic disorder of the mind most frequently found in the female population.
The political violence has added to the economic misery, which has become more acute as the crisis wears on.
Her need for connection and communication became so acute that daily physical outbursts and a general sense of misery became routine.
Somalia is once again spewing misery across its borders, and once again man-made dimensions are making this natural disaster more acute.
He explored this question of what we may call the "misery threshold" because he wanted to know if some people were more capable or more prone to experience "the acute fever" of religious belief.
