Sentence examples for extraordinary misery from inspiring English sources

THE extraordinary misery of her life and the extraordinary merits of her poems make Anna Akhmatova one of the great literary figures of modern times.

"Is there such extraordinary need of misery to make beauty?" asks the doctor, but the answer is already written: yes.

This catalogue of misery emphasises the extraordinary breadth of public policy that needs to be aligned to improve the nation's mental well-being.

The suspected looters, a Legal Aid lawyer charged, were victims of "extreme misery caused by extraordinary unemployment... and massive cutbacks in services".

Reviewing the novel Present Times in the TLS in 1984, Valentine Cunningham complained of repetition and a "heavy touch", seeing the former rugby player hero's domestic misery as "an extraordinary threnody of despair about and hatred against The Way Things Are Going for Middle-Aged White Men in Our Britain".

The song works as a sort of three-act play, which, like the musical itself, is an extraordinary show of prowess and of misery.

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution created extraordinary wealth at the top and excruciating misery at the bottom.

This is far from a misery memoir, as Steinberg unfurls an extraordinary story in simple style, his uncluttered prose punctuated only by the odd detour into Somali clan culture or Ethiopian politics.

But as the crisis deepened, as the flood rose to crest even bridges and attics, something remarkable was sparked by the misery the storm wrought: ordinary folk demonstrated extraordinary grace and kindness in an unprecedented private, humanitarian and relief response.

"For anybody who grew up in the misery of the post-war years, Bern was an extraordinary inspiration.

'For anybody who grew up in the misery of the post-war years, Berne was an extraordinary inspiration.