Sentence examples for misery threshold from inspiring English sources

James calls those who live on the sunnier side of their misery threshold "healthy-minded".

The when, where and how of surrender depends on a person's misery threshold.

James claims in "Varieties" that there are two kinds of people, differentiated from where they live in relation to their misery threshold.

Of course, we can fit an occasional bout of even extreme suffering into an otherwise happy life (see Peg O'Connor's recent post on William James and the "misery threshold"), but there's a level of sustained misery that wipes out happiness.

He explored this question of what we may call the "misery threshold" because he wanted to know if some people were more capable or more prone to experience "the acute fever" of religious belief.

James knew himself and many of his family members to belong to the second category — "sick souls" and "divided selves," who live on the dark side of their misery threshold.

It's as if they want to see who has the highest threshold for misery.

Only when misery has reached a certain threshold will folks awaken to the full extent to which they've been had.

"We stand near the threshold of profound economic misery," Mr. Romney told the veterans.

"We stand near the threshold of profound economic misery," he said.

In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday, Mitt Romney said that Americans "stand near the threshold of profound economic misery".