Sentence examples for universal misery from inspiring English sources

All the usual yearnings — for beauty, money, health, leisure, ocean views — were the controls of the experiment in "Laguna Beach," so that what was left to bedevil the show's teenaged characters was only that universal misery: love.

The president of the United Nations General Assembly, Han Seung Soo, quoting the Mexican poet, Octavio Paz, said the richest nations could no longer afford to be "islands of abundance in an ocean of universal misery".

When John Lennon sang the words, "I read the news today, oh boy," he really captured the universal misery of paying attention to current affairs.

The fact is that if I sat around thinking about all the ways I'm contributing to universal degradation and misery I'd never get out of bed.

While there are near-universal reports of misery and exploitation, quitting is the only remedy anyone can seem to come up with.

Fighting any war without the public sacrifice of a universal draft is an unjust misery for military personnel and their families.

They decided that its purpose should be defined in the most universal terms possible — "the alleviation of human misery".

They decided that its purpose should be defined in the most universal terms possible—"the alleviation of human misery".

Bragg should be applauded for choosing the form of a novel – scene of the universal – rather than the predictable particularities of the misery memoir to tell his tale.

If all goes well, the United States will finally have a universal health-care system that should obviate the economic losses (and the human misery) that such a statistic reveals.

The day before the universal credit fiasco, Kent county council linked Duncan Smith's welfare "reforms" to the growing misery in the county.