Sentence examples for catastrophic misery from inspiring English sources

In Vildanden (1884; The Wild Duck) Ibsen completely reversed his viewpoint by presenting on stage a gratuitous, destructive truth-teller whose compulsion visits catastrophic misery on a family of helpless innocents.

The mood lasted only until the sun went down, which is when I began to make mistakes — none catastrophic, but together they added up to misery.

From crisis to crisis, the loss of power has meant the loss of lives, resources, medical research and patient protection; idle gas stations; catastrophic local and state economic impacts; and untold misery to millions of people.

It would take something catastrophic for them to stay on the dark side of their misery lines.

It will provide little solace to wounded fans of the Boston Red Sox, who recently endured the most catastrophic late-season choke in baseball history, to know that their misery has been mathematically quantified: 278 million to 1.

But as if leaving a warning for the future, it poured down enough water to inflict misery on many who had hoped in vain that the catastrophic earthquake on Jan . 12would be all they had to endure.

They include the millions who have lost access to the basic necessities of life after fleeing their homes; the millions languishing in refugee or displaced-person camps in conditions of unspeakable misery; and the countless children, many of them reeling from catastrophic losses - of their homes, their families, their access to education, and their childhood.

"Throughout recorded history, wars have been characterized by death, human misery, and the destruction of property; each major conflict being more catastrophic than the one preceding it," Greene argued.

But add to the overall sector's hit from high fuel prices a special stew of regional miseries such as the fallout from the SARS epidemic, terrorism in Bali and a catastrophic tsunami, and you can see why Chief Executive Chew, in a rare interview, wryly jokes about his "interesting times".

What misery?

Misery sells.