Consistently, reliably, expectation produces misery.
While companies cannot control where oil is found, they should refrain from exploiting those resources when to do so produces misery as well as energy.
The knife edge is how to challenge attitudes that produce misery without provoking a backlash, from the society and especially from its conservative Islamist elements.
Yet until "those bad peepers" failed her, McWilliam had shied away from producing a "misery memoir," one of those "accounts of profitable suffering; no, profitable accounts of suffering" she had never cared to read.
It now appears that not only a failing economy can produce human misery, even one praised as a paragon of success also has the power to misshape human purposes.
So, when you're miserable here, you're miserable twice: once because you actually lost your home/job/savings/spouse/girlish figure, and all over again because it's not supposed to be like that (and maybe thrice because our mainstream society doesn't suggest any possibility of changing the circumstances that produced your misery or even how arbitrary those circumstances are).
At the time I accepted the case for sticking with the US as the least worst option in both instances – I still think it was – but the results, though still unfolding, have produced much misery as well as some benefit for both benighted countries.
In the sanctioning countries, sanctions are justified, even if they end up producing widespread hardship and misery, on the grounds that they are better than wars.
In his annotated translation of the Bhagavad Gita, readers could learn how to be pleasing to Lord Krishna by eschewing meat and spicy food (which could "cause misery by producing mucus in the stomach"), by working hard, by chanting his name — small, tangible steps that could bring a devotee close to the divine.
