Sentence examples for sight of misery from inspiring English sources

"Up to a certain point," as Melville wrote in "Bartleby the Scrivener," which is the persistent ghost in "By the Sea," Abdulrazak Gurnah's absorbing new novel, "the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not".

An incense of misery.

There's a lot of misery in the making, and these are new kinds of misery.

"They've had a lot of years of misery.

In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, he defined it as "a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery".

For those of us who take pleasure in other people's misery, the sight of a huge smile slowly disappearing from Love's face is priceless.

Anecdotes of misery abound.

"Those days of misery, anguish".

After years of misery, she succumbed.

Such a picture of misery.

The shadow transport secretary, Michael Dugher, said passengers had endured "misery on top of misery".