Two-person saws, also called " misery whips ", can also be played, though with less virtuosity, and they produce an octave or less of range.

He is entrusted with a certain amount of misery which it is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can.

Disunited, we can hope for nothing but stagnation, misery and ruin.

: I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me-The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber, in which we remain as long as we do not think-We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a bright appearance, we care not to hasten to it ; but are at length imperceptibly impelled by awakening of the thinking principle-within us-we no sooner get into the second Chamber, which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought, than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere, we see nothing but pleasant wonders, and think of delaying there for ever in delight: However among the effects this breathing is father of is that tremendous one of sharpening one's vision into the nature and heart of Man — of convincing one's nerves that the World is full of misery and Heartbreak, Pain, sickness and oppression — whereby This Chamber of Maiden Thought becomes gradually darken'd and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open-but all dark-all leading to dark passages — We see not the balance of good and evil.

He is entrusted with a certain amount of misery which it is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can.

The fact that this booklet was also meant to form bridges between Lutheran and Reformed Protestants in Germany can for example be seen from the role the Law takes as both the source of knowledge of human depravity and misery ( first part of the Catechism ) and the ' rule for gratitude ', the source of knowledge of God's will for a holy life.

Sensei clearly feels responsible for K's suicide, displayed in his constant trips to the cemetery at Zoshigaya to visit K's grave, his belief that he is being punished by heaven, or is destined for misery and loneliness, his belief that he must never be, or can never be, happy, because of this betrayal of K. Thus, as is often the case in Japanese culture ( particularly in the Tokugawa era, but also certainly carried on beyond it ), Sensei's suicide is an apology and an attempt to show penitence, or to do something about one's mistakes.

:: When a character is unfortunate by reversal ( s ) of fortune ( peripeteia ), at first he suffers ( pathos ) and then he can realize ( anagnorisis ) the cause of his misery or a way to be released from the misery.

In this facet, Faustus can be likened to Icarus, whose insatiable ambition was the source of his misery and the cause of his plight.

Poem has a hidden acrostic Solus deus potes nos liberare de tribulatione inimicorum Turcorum sua potentia infinita, " Only God can save us from the misery of our enemies Turks ", discovered by Luko Paljetak.

*「 十年生死兩茫茫 。 不思量 ， 自難忘 。 千里孤墳 ， 無處話淒涼 。 縱使相逢應不識 ， 塵滿面 、 鬢如霜 。 夜來幽夢忽還鄉 。 小軒窗 ， 正梳妝 。 相顧無言 ， 惟有淚千行 。 料得年年腸斷處 ： 明月夜 ， 短松岡 。」“ For ten years here I wander and there you lie ./ I don't think about you often ,/ yet how can I forget you !/ With your grave a thousand miles away ,/ where can I confide my loneliness ?/ Even if we met, could you recognize me ,/ with dust all over my face / and hair like frost ?/ Last night I had a dream in which I returned home ./ By the window ,/ you were combing your hair ./ We Looked at each other silently ,/ with tears streaming down our cheeks ./ There's a place which every year will be my misery ：/ the moonlit night ,/ the hill of short pines.

For example, the lotus flower has a particular message ; Its roots are in the mud at the bottom of the pond, symbolizing the misery of the human condition, but it's flower is pure white, symbolizing the purity of spirit that can be achieved by following the teachings of the Buddha.

* Grrkek ( Beau Billingslea ): A giant space alien that can kill planets who cares for nothing but destruction and misery.

Jakobovits also took a conservative view on trade unions, criticised " Faith in the City " for not mentioning the role of trade unions, arguing that " The selfishness of workers in attempting to secure better conditions at the cost of rising unemployment and immense public misery can be just as morally indefensible as the rapaciousness of the wealthy in exploiting the working class ".

He asks God how Israel can be kept in misery if God is just.

This determination strengthens Ellen's will to endure and undoubtedly pulls her through her grief and misery, as she knows only she alone can help herself ; though others may have tried, no one has succeeded.

Now we can see how the false fabrication of heaven and its denizens, the earth with its sociopolitical histories, and hell with its wildest screams of fear causes millions of people everywhere to undergo excruciating pain, shame and misery.

Spirits can also be used to attack people, cause sickness and misery and many other bad things.

Nick Dearden of the Jubilee Debt Campaign said of the change: " It will mean the poorest countries in the world can no longer be attacked by these reprehensible investment funds who grow fat from the misery of others.

Now, Rod finds himself aiding the aliens on their mission: to capture BKR ( pronounced Bee-Kay-Are ), an interstellar criminal whose mission in life is to cause as much pain and misery as he can.

Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours.

They would go to New York together, where parties would be piled on weariness and on misery.

The amount of blood and misery that will be poured in, and the likelihood that democracy will emerge at the other end.

In his works, Bacon called for a " spring of a progeny of inventions, which shall overcome, to some extent, and subdue our needs and miseries ", always proposing that all scientific work should be done for charitable purposes, as matter of alleviating mankind's misery, and that therefore science should be practical and have as purpose the inventing of useful things for the improvement of mankind's estate.

Calvin also wrote that the Jews ' " rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

I don't want to be part of a nation's misery.

Everything about Omelas is pleasing, except for the city's one atrocity: the good fortune of Omelas requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness and misery, and that all her citizens should be told of this upon coming of age.

It is scarce credible in so rich, populous, and plentiful countries as these were that so much misery and desolation, poverty and famine should in so short a time be, as we have seen.

In a spirited response Southey wrote an open letter to the MP, in which he explained that he had always aimed at lessening human misery and bettering the condition of all the lower classes and that he had only changed in respect of “ the means by which that amelioration was to be effected ”.

He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery, and it became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.

He chose to be a writer after witnessing the misery his father felt from working for the Internal Revenue Service and contrasting that with the portrayal of a writer's life on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

She seems to have embodied a blessed death ; the Suda connects her name to the figure of speech " be gone to blessedness ," instead of misery or damnation, which may be euphemistic, in the way that the dead are referred to as " the blessed ones.

In 1807, Foscolo wrote his Carme Dei sepolcri, which may be described as a sublime effort to seek refuge in the past from the misery of the present and the darkness of the future.

Bayern has been known to be involved with charitable ventures for a long time, helping other football clubs in financial disarray as well as ordinary people in misery.

God, in pity to mankind, lest his burden should be insupportable and his nature an intolerable load, hath reduced our state of misery to an abbreviature ; and the greater our misery is, the less while it is like to last ; the sorrows of a man's spirit being like ponderous weights, which by the greatness of their burden make a swifter motion, and descend into the grave to rest and ease our wearied limbs ; for then only we shall sleep quietly, when those fetters are knocked off, which not only bound our souls in prison, but also ate the flesh till the very bones opened the secret garments of their cartilages, discovering their nakedness and sorrow.

The opinion proposed by a few theologians ( Hirscher, Schell ), that for certain classes of men there may still be a possibility of conversion after death, is contrary to the revealed truth that the particular judgment ( judicium particulare ) determines instantly and definitively whether the future is to be one of eternal happiness or of eternal misery ( cf.

# a public sense, or sensus communis, " a determination to be pleased with the happiness of others and to be uneasy at their misery "

In his 1960 book, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch wrote that he found the USSR to be " a land of hunger, misery, and terror.

That is, sometimes it is used to describe felt human misery, and other times it is postulated to explain unfelt anxiety and discontent.

It increased awareness in the upper classes of the need for the reform of feudalism in England and the appalling misery felt by the lower classes as a result of their enforced near-slavery.

Nîmes, which was one of the Protestant strongholds, felt the full force of repression and fratricidal confrontations ( including the Michelade massacre ) which continued until the middle of the 17th century, adding to the misery of periodic outbreaks of plague.

In that later work she described both the deep misery of the experience of having her heritage stripped from her as she was forced to pray in the manner of the Quakers and cut her hair, and the joy she felt in learning to read, write, and play the violin.

Swami Vivekananda felt extreme pain by the wretchedness and misery of the people of India under the British rule and his opinion was that education was the panacea for all evils plaguing the contemporary Indian society, especially that of Indian women.

... Novo's originality is Americans ' hunger and our greatest misery is that this hunger is felt but not intellectually understood.