The film was later described by Bosley Crowther as "interminable;" and he noted that "of all the miserable dilemmas in which Miss Davis has been involved ... this one is probably the worst".
And after all the miserable unintended consequences of George Bush's "freedom agenda" in the Middle East, discretion may indeed be the better part of valour: time to get out while the going is reasonably good.
For Eleanor, election to the White House "meant the end of any personal life of my own" — a note of self-pity that F.D.R. mocked with an irritated quatrain: Did my Eleanor relate All the sad and awful fate Of the miserable lives Lived by Washington wives?
It was beginning to look like all of the other miserable losses that had piled up for the Mets in the last week.
The real problems are the absence of a credible plan to deal with errant countries (as the Germans have recognised), the structural imbalances between Germany and the less competitive southern members and, most of all, the miserable growth prospects for those poorer, weaker southerners, made worse by their fiscal retrenchment.
Tragedies at sea have been a fixture for decades in the global movement of the miserable.
The authors, Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman, dressed readers down for following low-fat and low-carb diets, drinking diet soda, entrusting their health to the Food and Drug Administration, and most of all for ignoring the miserable realities of the American meat and dairy industries.
Lifeinvader's strapline, if the point needed pushing home further, is: "Where your personal information becomes a marketing profile (that we can sell)." Beyond this, the characters in GTA5 live in a post-recession world - and encounter all the miserable side-effects of it along the way.
We've got a case of the miserables and you don't want to catch it.
