The relationship between productivity and wages has been severed, with miserable consequences for household income.
It heard copious evidence describing the byzantine dead zones of the benefit system, and the miserable consequences for unlucky claimants.
And she should reframe her message about Brexit to reflect her real concerns before she leads a car-crash departure with all the miserable consequences that she foresaw when she was talking the truth to the city slickers.
When one of the caretakers passes out in the laundry room, cigarette in hand, and dies in the ensuing fire, a fight over who can best look after the boy brings the small community's few remaining secrets into the open, with predictably miserable consequences for all.
William Godwin, another of the Waterloo dissidents we should be remembering this week, railed against the "miserable consequences of that accursed field", and continued throughout his life to believe that, however flawed Napoleon might be, he was still to be preferred to the restored Bourbon kings.
And after all the miserable unintended consequences of George Bush's "freedom agenda" in the Middle East, discretion may indeed be the better part of valour: time to get out while the going is reasonably good.
That it has miserable economic consequences, for another, in rich and poor countries alike: the period when it was at its lowest ebb started with the 1929 Wall Street crash and continued through the Great Depression, probably not by coincidence.World wars are clearly bad for global capital.
Between the weather – this is a place, we are starkly reminded, where a bullied child wandering just yards from an open early-evening door can produce the most miserable of consequences – and the venality of adults (just what exactly is with the Danish ferry captain? Just… what?), there exudes the most terrific claustrophobic menace, in the most huggably pleasurable of forms.
The possibility that these cutbacks could be made without damage to body or soul has been a miserable miscalculation with terrible consequences.
It would be a fitting coda to her impressive legacy if her death ended up provide a genuine 'teaching moment' for America: one that would encourage the media and public to look beyond the scandals and personalities to the complicated causes and consequences of this miserable disease.
