Sentence examples for called misery from inspiring English sources

And yes, there is a band called Misery Index.

The self-help memoir may owe something to a backlash against what Ben Yagoda, in his 2009 book "Memoir: A History," called "misery memoirs".

"Blood Money" starts with songs called "Misery Is the River of the World" and "Everything Goes to Hell"; "Alice," a collection of songs written for a music-theater collaboration with Robert Wilson in 1992, is haunted by solitude and death.

During the opening number, for instance, a brash, stomping carnival dirge called "Misery Is the River of the World," the entire cast assembles and sings in front of one of Mr. Wilson's huge, cartoonish backdrops, and then everyone files out except for a mechanical monkey.

He called Misery a "hoot", stating: "Anything where Brian is held in the palm of diabolical Stewie works wonders for me".

Joanna Gruesome vocalist Alanna McArdle is involved in a feminist collective called The Misery Chicks, which seeks to give women in DIY the voice they might not previously have had.

I ask Lanegan, who has written a song for the Gutter Twins called All Misery, how he imagines he might have dealt with the pressures of fame that destroyed Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley of Alice in Chains.

Of these positive checks, those which appear to arise from the laws of nature, may be called exclusively misery; and those which we bring upon ourselves, such as wars, excesses of all kinds, and many others, which it would be in our power to avoid, are of a mixed nature.

Sadness is probably more endemic to the human subtext than sanguine spirits, which is why funereal songs like Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday" strike a universal chord and why Freud conjectured that "ordinary unhappiness" (as opposed to what he called "hysterical misery") was the best the talking cure could hope to achieve.

Howe also owned a plantation called "Mount Misery" in what was Bladen County.

"It was called Club Misery, but you knew they weren't really miserable.