Carpenter's drafts of essays, "Object of Existence," "Misery of Existence," "Opinion," "Concerning Literature and the Philosophy of Expression," "Of the Justification of Learning in a Democracy," and "Hopes in God," Notes on and transcripts of Thomas Watson's Italian Madrigals Englished, 1590.
We deny the existence of such misery, refuse to let it inform our political choices and then wring our hands at the reality.
Burke never dissembled the existence of the real misery that he observed in civil society.
In the 1920s, facing another economic crisis, America -- unlike Europe -- chose the path of liberal universalism, a preliminary welfare state that admitted the existence of poverty and misery.
However, I simply refuse to subscribe to delivering mouthfuls of misery about my own existence.
The images of the U.S. soldiers enjoying a humorous moment in an otherwise terrifying existence compared with the stoner dad's tale of misery while accompanying his family on a trip to Disney World was inspired.
The scholar Laurent Dubois's new book relates the violent birth and troubled existence of Haiti, a tale of much misery, shot through with flashes of hope and bravery.
Leithauser, away from former band the Walkmen, spends this song convincing himself that an aloof existence is manageable; but a voice as resplendent as his engulfs all sense of misery anyway.
It's hard to tell whether Paul's joyless existence rubs off on Jenny or hers on him or if they bring equal amounts of misery to the equation.
Although she too believed in a benign God, she continued to ask how the reality of a God of love could possibly be reconciled with the existence of a world filled with so much misery and pain.
