| 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. |
| The image of contempt and miserabilism, which the Medias of the North give to Africa in particular and to the countries of the South in general, discourage their young people to remain in their countries. |
| Rather than being just a study in Scottish miserabilism Burnside's new book is a chilling display case of grotesques, shot through with a bleak and mordant humour. |
| 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. |
| They exposed my miserabilism for the false consciousness it was. |
| But perhaps Gwyneth was able to clinch the deal by demonstrating that she had some familiarity with existential miserabilism. |
