In much of Europe, austerity has become a byword for misery and has helped stir a fierce backlash against the so-called European project, a venture that began in 1951 to bind the Continent's previously warring states into a zone of harmony and, it was hoped, prosperity.
Leeds Rhinos conquered them four times between 2007 and 2011, while 2010's defeat by fierce rivals Wigan made up the quintet of misery under the Old Trafford lights.
Fierce winds, torrential rain and a tidal surge have brought misery to thousands affected by flooding and there is anger at a perceived lack of action from Whitehall.
During the strain, anxiety, and insomniac misery of the three-week search, Mrs. Campos was fierce and frantic with hope, holding prayer vigils at St. Joseph's Church.
"Ah, Jamess replied, "but one paints the fierce passions of a luxurious aristocracy, the other deals with the petty miseries of a little bourgeois in a provincial town".
As one of Europe's most powerful leaders, Merkel is unlikely to deviate from Berlin's approach so far to the low-boil euro debt crisis: a fierce insistence on austerity in financially troubled countries, many of whose residents blame Germany for inflicting economic misery on them.
Her misery creates more misery.
