abject misery

On his face was an expression of utter, abject misery.

In abject misery the samurai went back to his place by the wall.

He let out a low sound of abject misery.

Sonja nodded, but there was a look of abject misery on her face.

For the first three years he endured abject misery.

The vast majority of Muslims were peasants, living in abject misery.

"I would have come," he moaned in abject misery and joy.

And been crushed to abject misery because he had found a satyr, not a god?

She looked up at Bolan and spoke quietly but in abject misery.

The prime minister should know what abject misery this unemployment will cause to individuals, to families and to communities.

Labour's acting leader said the losses would bring "abject misery" to families and communities.

She clutched his massive arm, her face crumpled in abject misery.

He and his father before him have run the country into such a state of abject misery that some people are surviving on boiled grass.

President Hasan was stretched out on one of the beds in abject misery.

It is a graphic picture of the abject misery of the rural poor.

At that he threw himself down on the blankets in abject misery, beating the floor with his fists.

Maddie in a state of abject misery and humiliation.

This man, kneeling not far away, cried in abject misery because Kahlan had asked nothing of him.

Shenna abruptly fell silent, but her expression was still one of abject misery.

But for some, who didn't get the grades they hoped for, there's abject misery.

To read about 19th-century London is to know that we have not cornered the market today on poverty, crime, child abuse, disease or abject misery.

I called, and trudged slowly back over the knoll, hopefully a picture of abject misery.

He turned his face to the ceiling, as though to Heaven, with an expression of abject misery, sobbing silently.

The look of abject misery on the face of his second-oldest was heartbreaking.

Richard was making a show of throwing off his grief but I, who knew him so well, could detect the abject misery in his eyes.