Sentence examples for as a misery from inspiring English sources

Even Stalin Ate My Homework "might have got more attention", he says, if he'd written it as a "misery memoir".

It should not be dismissed as a misery memoir – it's beautifully written, truly chilling, maddening and uplifting.

All these goals and the often random assignment of points that go with them could just as easily be described as a misery machine.

By asserting that nature has a value in and of itself, Francis is overturning centuries of theological interpretation that regarded the natural world with outright hostility — as a misery to be transcended and an "allurement" to be resisted.

Scotland manager Gordon Strachan described the experience of Scotland's 6-1 win over Gibraltar as a "misery" as he admitted his decision to change his system against the international minnows failed to meet his expectations.

Referred to by some as a "misery show," Queen for a Day "awarded prizes to women who could come up with the most heart-stabbing stories told by the sick and the downtrodden .... On one show, a mother of nine requested a washing machine to replace one that broke when it fell on her husband and disabled him and who, by the way, also needed heart surgery".

Over the past five seasons of "Game of Thrones," few characters have held as strong a misery poker hand as Sophie Turner's Sansa Stark.

9/11 is a pretty good example for people who didn't live in New York or know anyone who died, but the recent war in Georgia really stands out as a misery-coopting bonanza.

One review of the first book noted – quite astonishingly – that it was "as far from a misery memoir as it's possible to imagine".

"That's what they've come to expect and they don't see people making their lives a misery as unusual.

Their main decision is whether to work with that logic or against it (which Smith regards as a choice between harmony and misery).