Sentence examples for miserable manner from inspiring English sources

By the miserable manner of his dying, alone, naked, and comatose on the floor of a freezing prison cell, Mr. Biko became, in death still more than in life, a powerful force for an end to South Africa's institutionalized system of racial repression.

The New Yorker, January 23 , 1978P. 25 A punk rock band with miserable manners is performing live at Mom's apartment.

By Paul W. Wales The New Yorker, January 23 , 1978P. 25 A punk rock band with miserable manners is performing live at Mom's apartment.

Horror stories circulated, like the one about the woman who became so sodden that "she fell on the fire, and was burned in so miserable a manner, that she immediately died and her bowels came out".

McGregor is the journo, never named: cynical, boozy and miserable in the classical manner.

Either way, it was a monumental effort from Dilshan, especially for the way he carried the fight to England in a manner which suggested Sri Lanka's miserable 82 all out at Cardiff was an aberration.

(His older sister, Hinde Esther — also a writer, though in the thwarted manner of Alice James — was saved by a miserable arranged marriage that sent her to England).

Others were upset with Perkins' military-style manner, saying that he "made playing football a miserable experience".

It is another thing to cause them to lead a miserable life of torment, and then to slaughter them in a crude and callous manner.

But good manners only went so far, and Mr. Richter described himself as "vaguely miserable" until he began studying film at Chicago's Columbia College and taking improv classes with Del Close, a mentor to John Belushi and Bill Murray.

Though his manner is smooth and smiley, he rails without cease against the greedy corporations that supposedly make ordinary Americans' lives miserable.