Here was no irony turned inward, but only purest misery.

"The Road" would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.

To be gawked at and whispered about by strangers would have been pure misery.

The milky eyes held a look of pure misery.

I had to watch my two nephews one weekend, and it was pure misery.

She hunched one shoulder, and the cast of her face was pure misery.

The Gut's been pure misery for us every since, we can barely run a train within reach of the coast.

She had slept wrong on her back and it was a pure misery to her.

An hour passed, while he sat hunched in pure misery.

To be put out of her misery, pure and simple.