But I do know that in today's child's play — which often unfolds on the screen — there is more than the misery and isolation that most midlifers profess to see (as they click and point).
He portrays the misery and isolation of Saudi women who, despairing of their menfolk's insensitivity, often turn to female companionship and sometimes lesbianism.Mr Lacey conveys the simple, homely character of the current ruler, King Abdullah, relaxing on his farm with his horses or splashing with grandchildren in his swimming pool.
If you become a donor to The Fistula Foundation, we can together help to treat the extreme backlog of more than 500,000 women worldwide who are suffering lives of misery and isolation for doing nothing but try to bring a child safely into this world.
His misery, shame, anger and isolation seem complete: he is beyond reach.
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are living in isolation and misery, trapped in their villages by Israeli road closings.
Despite the feelings of isolation and misery, you not alone and hearing the stories of others can be comforting and supportive.
It's a corrective to complacency, a reminder of a period when rage itself was a necessary tonic, a caustic application that could burn through the misery of shame and isolation.
President Bush is simply wrong in saying Fidel Castro's revolution "has brought Cuba's workers and farmers and families nothing -- nothing -- but isolation and misery" ("Embargo Remains Until Cuba Alters Policy, Bush Says," front page, May 21).
"In an era where markets have brought prosperity and empowerment, this leader clings to a bankrupt ideology that has brought Cuba's workers and farmers and families nothing -- nothing -- but isolation and misery".
The trip had given me a flavour of the isolation and misery of Bunce Island, but it had also allowed me to understand something about the loneliness of what it means to sail upriver in Africa.
