unhappy situation
Example Sentences
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“It was a thoroughly unhappy situation I was in, but I was too far gone,” she told Rolling Stone.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
In another telephone call, she testified, Ms. Jordan angrily blamed her for her unhappy situation, because Ms. Cristman had urged her to have a baby to combat her frequent depressions.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2014
Asserting yourself makes you feel better, even if you’re in an unhappy situation, he adds. “If you want to beat anxiety and depression, don’t try to be good. Try to be in contact with your emotions.”
From US News ● Sep. 26, 2014
But with the prospect of determined experiments designed to bring about such changes, he warned of “the unhappy situation of the cure being worse than the ailment.”
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2013
I should wish to select some unhappy situation; it would allow me to unfold his mind far more poetically.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle
