Sentence examples for miserable note from inspiring English sources

Paul Rees Wallaby Pocock arrested at mining protest Rugby fans mark memory of Phillip Hughes South Africa went into this tour with high hopes after their win over New Zealand, but they suffered an ignominious defeat by Ireland, secured two nondescript wins, then ended on a miserable note — defeat by Wales and, worse still, the sickening injury suffered by their captain, Jean de Villiers.

If the guy or girl you're dating is making you miserable, please note that there are 7 billion people in the world (some more tolerable than others), and this person may not be (ahem, isn't) the one.

Melody Maker reviewer Chris Roberts dismissed the claims that Disintegration was not a miserable record and, noting the tone of the album and its lack of melody ("You'll be lucky to find a tune on here. Or a gag"), he commented that "The Cure have almost invisibly stopped making pop records".

But for all the melancholy that pervades the finale, Haitink challenges the two-dimensional figure with which we are so often presented of Shostakovich in innumerable programme notes: depressive, miserable, laden.

"You, the media, have certainly done a miserable job," he said, noting that many newspapers devote more space to astrology than to science.

In a way, the absence of "hero" talk was a grace note to this miserable affair.

Steve Malcolm, analyst at the stockbroker Evolution, summed it up succintly when he wrote in a note: "This ends a miserable first year as a separately listed company".

"They literally made my life as miserable as they could," he says, noting the shaming lasted for years.

Commenting on his character of Wednesday, Vincent Schiavelli noted that he was miserable because "he really thinks that he's a dwarf" even though he isn't.

Our special report this week on American foreign policy notes that he inherited two miserable wars.

"It was like a breath of distilled lucidity, confirming to me the perpetually miserable state that everything is in," Gillette notes.