Even when talking about family, the ever-miserable Parcells barely mustered a smile.
This woman is always miserable".
In the meantime, the life of ordinary Burmese is becoming ever more miserable.The army has ruled Myanmar since 1962.
Zimbabwe's situation is growing ever more miserable.Another UN agency, the World Food Programme, reckons that 4m Zimbabweans about one-third of the remaining population will need food aid by next year.
The move to slash unemployment benefits, then, is counterproductive as well as cruel; it will swell the ranks of the unemployed even as it makes their lives ever more miserable.
She started off as a sexy young thing, a symbol of the swinging 60s (in films such as Antonioni's Blow Up and Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment) and gradually moved into ever more miserable territory.
How could Netanyahu bolster restrictive and discriminatory laws against the Palestinians, build physical barriers and endless checkpoints, and make their lives ever more miserable but then expect them to take these abuses with equanimity?
The economy is shattered, Iraqis scrabble for an ever-more-miserable living, hundreds of children die each week and Mr Hussein is still in power.In this section Who owns the knowledge economy?
Had the girl ever not been miserable?
So while the country has grown ever more scared, miserable, broke and broken, the president has too often been absent, quiet, ambivalent, impenetrable and inscrutable.
Often, when I'm asked about what it was like being in Afghanistan by civilians, I tell them it was the most fun I ever had being miserable.
