With the exception of Hillbrandt and Skinner, present misery was enough for all of us, without anticipating events to come.

Only in contrast to Lark's present misery did it seem a carefree episode.

It was the good things that sharpened his present miseries.

The end result should make all your present miseries disappear - we hope so, at any rate.

And it would certainly put me out of my present misery if he did.

All present pain, whatever it be, makes a part of our present misery.

The present misery derives from too-high demands in times of prosperity and a lack of readiness today to agree to share the burden of downsizing.

Hannah, the intellectual, wants to believe that knowledge will impose order and prefers focusing on fixing present misery to worrying about the apocalypse.

And as the bridal couple stood up for the first dance, she felt the enormous gulf between their obvious carefree happiness and her present misery.

Suppose, as I believe, she would rather endure her present misery than be made to promise to keep apart from him?