The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable. The area was wealthy and fertile, yet infighting led misery and despair. Security has given place to danger, prosperity to misery and calamity. She wails in disappointment and misery. Fred wondered how she could smile in the midst of all that misery and death. This fills her with misery but also jealousy. Here he saw the "grim misery and cruelty of the Franco regime". Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger and reckless with misery. The misery of rural day laborers, abandoned by everyone, was often appalling. He experiences the threat of death, misery and a loss of self. They were compelled to live in sheer misery and isolation. They targeted drinking establishments, which they viewed as the source of societal ills and misery. Koch wrote that the Soviet Union was "a land of hunger, misery, and terror". Ruth rebukes Ellen by accusing her of causing the misery that has befallen the family. Valachi shoots the victim to put him out of his misery.