But for people breast-fed on misery, it can be an awfully tight sweater.

Although there are things that thrive on chaos and misery, we don't have to.

Socialism thrives on misery and envy, it may well be a mental illness.

As a result, naturalistic writers were frequently criticized for focusing too much on human vice and misery.

Criticism has been raised at the contradiction of demanding such fees to speak on world poverty and human misery.

They are malevolent, demonic beings who thrive on human 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.

They fed on human pain and misery, so anywhere there was the potential for such things, you found them in the thick of it.

Though you thought, Oh come on old misery can't I go out on my own some time?

I told the kids not to dwell on misery, to thank the Lord for the good things.