Sentence examples for miserable territory from inspiring English sources
She started off as a sexy young thing, a symbol of the swinging 60s (in films such as Antonioni's Blow Up and Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment) and gradually moved into ever more miserable territory.
As thoroughly as Perry has covered this territory, her descriptions of these miserable streets and their wretched inhabitants still have the power to shock, as do her unsentimental views on the appalling price of progress during the industrial age.
Instead, it has persisted with a slow, grinding strategy of seizing the territory it can while making life miserable in the areas beyond its reach.
Lt. Col. Charles E. Bruce (son of the commissioner quoted above) explained in a 1938 monograph on Waziristan that this "policy of nonintervention tempered by punitive expeditions" had been a miserable failure: "Under that system, this belt of tribal territory..
Conditions at the time are reported by Dutch sources as miserable; Suharto himself is reported as assisting smuggling syndicates in the transport of opium through the territory he controlled, to generate income.
