When I watched all the children, their copper, brown, and beige faces staring up at me as I taught Sunday school, I felt that I was committing a crime in talking about the gentle Jesus, in telling them to reconcile themselves to their misery on earth in order to gain the crown of eternal life.
The Govt. argued it was more merciful in the long run to let Biafrans starve & be bombed into submission than to remain neutral, that the alternative was a tribal "Balkanization" of all Africa, & that the Ibo leaders were exaggerating & prolonging the misery of their people in order to nationalize & abscond wit the oil & consolidate their own leadership.
When the Christie allies shut down the lanes in order to create misery among drivers — misery that, they hoped, would be turned to anger at the mayor of Fort Lee, a Christie non-supporter — the deed injected deliberate malice into the everyday headaches of getting back and forth.
Although her life has been turned upside down, she has put her misery aside for the moment in order to help others.
Leave them alone in their misery for a little while in order to ascertain what their true desire and motivation is for the emotional breakdown.
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In the eyes of his opponents, Crow's achievements were gouged out by exploiting his position in order to inflict misery on travellers.
Could they, for once, mischievously be tempted to let their rivals win in order to prolong their misery, in a "better the dilettantes you know" style scenario?
But it also says something about the sort of selective looking one must do in order to show human misery.
