Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig -- an animal easily as intelligent as a dog -- that becomes the Christmas ham.
Olmert, who has been plagued with legal problems since leaving politics, has been flirting with getting back into the game — a jovial egotist, he palpably aches to make a comeback — but how he proposes to do that, considering his miserable showing in current public opinion polls, his legal "challenges," and much else, is the question.
I know we're probably not high on your sympathy list, but have you stopped to consider how miserable life is going to be for journalists covering the Bush Administration?
It's never fun being the subject of another person's negativity, but consider how miserable that person must be to be intentionally treating you this way.
Most had come to their current jobs after meandering through what they considered some fairly miserable professions -- Mr. Holbrook was in software development and downing seven Advils a day; and Hannah Koltuv, the owner of Monster Mutt, a day-care center in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, was a television producer working on an ulcer.
By late 2002, Abramson was miserable, and considered taking a senior editing position at the Washington Post.
"Afghanistan, which has always been at the bottom of the poverty and social-indicator rankings of countries, must now be considered the poorest, most miserable state in the world," the World Bank said in a report last October.
Campbell was under all sorts of strain in the wake of that move – he tells me he was so miserable he considered leaving Arsenal after six months – and there were eruptions later.
In 1989, Zappa considered his idea a "miserable flop".
The film has a cult following but is generally considered to be a miserable failure.
