| A combination of loss of power and historiographical miserabilism leaves a society in poor condition to maintain its social fabric. |
| But perhaps Gwyneth was able to clinch the deal by demonstrating that she had some familiarity with existential miserabilism. |
| Cohen, now nudging 70, is often dismissed as some sort of bedsitter bard of miserabilism, but, in truth, he's capable of a much wider range of emotions. |
| England's World Cup song should embrace the national pastimes of miserabilism and self-deprecation. |
| If you're a glum dour downbeat killjoy who has nothing to peddle but reheated miserabilism, you will come across as a bitter fool, and no one will be persuaded. |
| So if French intellectuals are predominantly critical pessimists, miserabilism may in part be the consequence of holding them in such esteem. |
