Sentence examples for misery factor from inspiring English sources

Ratchets up the misery factor from Coldplay's teary-eyes to potential suicide b.

New regulations, altered compensation models, and (for clients) the potential for conflicts of interest contribute to the "misery factor," she said.

At Friends Seminary in downtown Manhattan, parents were called to a meeting two years ago after students in a fifth grade class began pairing off and breaking up, and "the misery factor was high," said Pamela Wood, the head of the middle school.

"The big investment banks continue to be tough places to work — between regulations, the lack of capital to fund deals and the broken compensation model," Ms. Caruso said, adding that the "misery factor" remains high even four years after the financial crisis.

Have you ever met somebody who's down in the dumps, but blames all of their misery on factors outside themselves?

I'm not arguing that media coverage of global disasters should be an X Factor style misery contest, where clap-o-meters are replaced with devices that measure the wailing of grief-stricken mothers, but in an era of rolling news and 24-hour web access, our senses are so bludgeoned by tragedy that we have to numb ourselves to human suffering.

He suggests that, "while not taking Israel out of the picture as the main factor in our misery", a lack of effective leadership that has left the two main Palestinian factions desperately split is also "a fundamental problem of the Palestinian people".

Mr. Pedraza said one common cause of second-home misery was that owners failed to factor in how much time and money were needed to maintain a place from hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away.

Marilyn Stasio, Variety: The eek! factor is largely missing from Misery, starring a laid-back Bruce Willis as the bed-bound author held hostage by his "greatest fan," played here by Laurie Metcalf.

But it is sustained by local factors including wild terrain, economic misery, tribal divisions and the weakness of the Yemeni state, battered by the Arab spring and the threat from secessionist movements.

California's poor showing in the survey is particularly surprising given that one of the 10 factors assessed by compilers of the "misery index" is weather.