Our "lily-livered" unions are planning "miserable, measly" actions, Tariq wrote, and the Labour leader is still too scared to join in.
They were angrily condemned by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who called on the French government to "distance itself publicly from the miserable statement and the miserable action of a company that is partially owned by the government of France".
Nobody, least of all Stitzer, is making a crude threat that a City institution accepting Kraft's miserable terms would have to explain its action to the public.
Action movie-wise, I'm reminded of The Delta Force, in which Neeson was uncredited muscle alongside Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin, that most poignant of elderly action-heroes, in his truly miserable final movie.
Whether it's schools, universities, the health service or local government, staff seem to be miserable, with a marked increase in industrial action and other protests in recent months.
Such gloom amounts to a miserable denouement to a difficult but decisive NATO action.
"We initially tried to attack this movie like an action movie, and it was a miserable failure," Mr. Kurtzman said over breakfast at a hotel here, near where he and Mr. Orci grew up.
I became the queen of defending my actions, even though deep inside, I was miserable and guilt-ridden.
Americans give Congress a miserable 11% approval rating, and when the government does take action, it seems to bungle the job.
The large number of family migrants is an unintended, even ironic, consequence of actions taken by Congress and successive administrations to make life miserable for immigrants regardless of legal status.
