Sentence examples for quiet misery from inspiring English sources

But in the quiet misery of the Yankees' clubhouse, Nelson hardly felt exonerated.

Inge set himself a smorgasbord of quiet misery to work with.

Yet people are still living in quiet misery as they muddle through the shortfall in benefits, and councils attempt to mitigate the impact of arrears.

As we sat in our hotel's luxurious lounge, sipping those much-anticipated cocktails, a sense of quiet misery began to infuse my thoughts - and not just because I was drinking a Zombie.

Paris, Texas re-engineers the Alice in the Cities conceit – that landscape and its observation can both reflect and inform states of mind – but also captures something then-novel about the US: a quiet, poetic misery that perfectly matched the mood of the burgeoning American indie movement of the 1980s, for which Wenders was a key inspiration.

The idea that a celebrity living in Malibu with a gold medal from the Olympics could be living in quiet, inauthentic misery gives lie to the idea that the "rich" are always better off, and in some strange unconscious way, invalidates the suffering of those who live desperately from paycheck to paycheck, if they even have a paycheck.

The mood is not one of misery, but of quiet, weary endurance punctuated with moments of joy.

Resilience is that quiet yet confident reminder that life can be misery and turmoil coupled with wonder and excitement all wrapped in one.

For all its inherent misery, the controlled drawing and restrained posing of the figures give the scene a quiet dignity.

Either those scenes of misery had never been, or this of quiet beauty was a cheating dream.

But the true beauty here is the absence of vengeance and vitriol: About Farewell is a sincere depiction of the quiet, resolute acceptance of mid- to long-term misery.