Wrapped in his own private misery, he rolled on his side, facing the wall and ignoring me.
Lorton dragged his mind away from his private misery.
I was staring at my mother's private miseries, and it made me want to go outside and bury the book in the dirt.
Simon assumed he was remembering the truth of their private misery.
She was so locked into her private misery that she didn't hear Lydia leave the bedroom.
They were all shaken out of their own private miseries.
There is a belief among my people that those who achieve public greatness are doomed to private misery.
The young man had such a defeated air it threatened to drag her down into whatever private misery he was in.
It made Fenn feel uncomfortable, as if he were i voyeur into the private misery of others.
This is a man who does not merely hobble to a corner to sit down in private misery.