Nostalgia seemed pointless on this damp, miserable Sunday morning because the Mets still had a game to play that could bring delirious joy or abject misery.
"But the only thing worse than being miserable is sentimentalizing misery as a desired state".
Likewise, an employee marinating in grievances about the employer will make him or herself miserable -- a misery that spreads quickly to everyone around, taking engagement AND productivity down with it.
My life is shrouded in the low level misery of a million other mildly miserable lives, and I blame Flo Rida.
"The results are miserable, but we expected misery," said Dan Ortwerth, an analyst at Edward Jones.
The result is a miserable existence, and the misery is rooted in unlimited attitudes that demand more satisfaction than a person can achieve.
They might cost less (although, many "gourmet" sausages are awful, too), but they leave a trail of misery in their wake: miserable pigs, miserable sausages and, ultimately, miserable you.
It was miserable but we endured the misery together.
Werther is not just miserable but proud of his misery, which he takes as proof that he is exceptionally sensitive — finer than the world that disappoints him.
Soon we'll be adrift, cut off from the continent, a miserable island of bitterness and misery.
