Sentence examples for miserable gift from inspiring English sources
About three months ago, Thomas Eisner of Cornell University, a towering figure in the fields of biology, ecology and evolution, and a promoter of the class Insecta and related arthropod throngs so thermodynamically persuasive you kept expecting a pair of antennae to sprout from his forehead, sent my 14-year-old daughter, Katherine, a wonderful, miserable gift.
I suspect she is cast in unhappy roles because she has a gift for looking so compellingly beautiful when miserable.
His earliest letters home make him seem less miserable than the average English public-school boy; a gift for self-concealment and a talent for appreciating objets find early expression in acting and model-making.
We were miserable, we used no more than a hundredth part of the gift we received for our long journey.
Aniston's angst Please, media outlets of the world, as a gift for 2009 spare us any more "Jennifer Aniston is miserable and unfulfilled because Brad Pitt left her for a baby collector" stories.
You may be miserable and making a terrible mess of it, but nevertheless that was your gift of days".
It is of course Family (messy, complex, miserable, happy, so many gradations of those last two words) which is the real gift, beneath the wrapping.
So many gifts have I gained from what on the surface was a miserable situation.
But if you're miserable, and your familiarity with yourself is a weary resignation, alienation can be enlargement: a gift of new space, a door opening where you didn't know there was one.
