| The abject misery, the clearest glimpse of absolute evil, is almost impossible to describe. |
| A tragedy will still pack the seats of a theatre with those who enjoy wallowing in other people's misery. |
| The soldiers will find a heaving city of misery, mortars and stray bullets. |
| I walked on, feeling sick to the stomach as I saw so much misery and ruination. |
| I mean, when I think of Cambodia in the 1970s, I think abject misery, suffering and genocide on a Stalin-like scale. |
| Behind the colourless doors of these homes were people who still live in the misery of abject poverty. |
