Sentence examples for concrete misery from inspiring English sources
Reed is playing at the local concert hall, which looks made to measure for Reed in its concrete misery - the Barbican meets Belmarsh prison.
The outskirts of third-world cities today are vast jumbles of tin, concrete and misery.
"It gives us a concrete picture of the misery level that Mozart lived with in the last two and a half years of his life," Mr. Hoyt said in a recent interview.
But the Liverpool 8 anthem by the same group, written beforehand in 1975, goes: "Children of the ghetto / Runnin' wild and free / In the concrete jungle / Filled with misery / There's no inspiration / To brighten up their day / So out of desperation / I would like to say /Children of the ghetto / Keep your head / To the sky".
Bars, gates, steel doors and the ubiquitous echo of jangling keys, it still felt like the concrete and steel monument to misery that I remembered.
The reality of what the disaster site is -- a still-smoking field of misery, where body parts and human dust are intermingled with concrete and steel -- played a central role in the creation of the widows' groups.
RAC Foundation director Professor Stephen Glaister said: "This is not about concreting over the countryside with new roads but upgrading many existing routes which have been the source of misery to motorists for years if not decades.
"I don't want the rest of the world to think of Japan as a concrete fortress," said Abe. "The tsunami was a force of nature, so I can forgive it for the destruction and misery it caused.
Her misery creates more misery.
