Sentence examples for miserable figures from inspiring English sources

As Lisa Tickner points out in her 1987 book on suffragette imagery, The Spectacle of Women, a mother, a laundress, a prostitute and a chain-maker can be made out among the group of miserable figures sketched against the towers of Westminster behind.

Ricky Ponting, by contrast, cut a miserable figure after he became the first Australian captain to lose two Ashes series in England since Billy Murdoch in the 19th century.

In 2012, a subsequent byelection registered an even more miserable figure: 18%, a low without precedent since the second world war.

But it's a pretty miserable figure when you compare it to the United States (where the figure stood at 16.1 percent last year), Britain (15 percent), or Norway, where a whopping 40.1 percent of board positions are held by women.

Shorn of its empire, Britain now cut a very miserable figure on the world stage.

Despite easily ending Stoke's run of three successive wins, Mourinho still cut a miserable figure on the sidelines after criticising his side following their 3-1 Champions League loss in Paris.

Perhaps his first question could be: "Why so sad Fernando?" Torres simply looks a dejected and miserable figure and that is before you even analyse why the snap and threat has gone from his game.

This follows Wednesday's miserable manufacturing figures, and data showing sluggish growth in construction yesterday.

NF 1.01pm GMT Osborne defends his record after miserable GDP figures Back to Davos, where UK chancellor George Osborne has been doing the rounds of the ad-hoc TV studios to defend his record, after figures showed the British economy shrank by 0.3% in the last three months of the year.

She is defending a majority of 5,318, a misleadingly low figure given the inevitably poor turnout that comes with a miserable November byelection.

Ronaldo cut a miserable, isolated figure.