Victims can inflict misery on others and people who lack self-awareness can still have insightful moments.
He fears that The Hum will soon pervade the entire globe and inflict misery on a sizeable group of people.
That would inflict misery on the new investor class, and valuations would still not be particularly cheap.
It would cause massive increases in noise and air pollution and inflict misery on hundreds of thousands of Londoners.
But addiction can also inflict misery on the families and especially the children of any addict, and involves wider social costs.
And although both share a capacity to inflict misery and despair on the innocent, the scars from a recession will eventually heal.Finbar O'Keeffe Studio City, California.
London Underground staff have started a 48-hour strike in a row over ticket office closures, after Prime Minister David Cameron said the action would "inflict misery" on Londoners.
And there is little doubt that grave breaches of all these treaties still inflict misery on millions and threaten international peace.
"And one thing is clear, history will not absolve Fidel Castro; it will remember him as an evil, murderous dictator who inflicted misery and suffering on his own people.
He is one upset away from joining the ranks of Dick Tarrant and Pete Carril, who often inflicted misery in the first manic hours of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
