self-commiseration

Mr. Wallis's delighted smile changed to gravity; a look of sincere self-commiseration came over his face, and he said that it had come along pretty well, but he feared it would never be quite the member it was.

Alas, Poor Wallis Victoria Janssen 2009

Mr. Wallis's delighted smile changed to gravity; a look of sincere self-commiseration came over his face, and he said that it had come along pretty well, but he feared it would never be quite the member it was.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

In self-commiseration he stood picking little bits of skin off his fingers.

In Chancery 2004

“You got home all right,” he said, gloomily, of a sudden, his tune modifying itself to one of self-commiseration.

Sister Carrie 2004

As it was, he suffered a pang of commingled self-commiseration and self-contempt, based on the distress he felt for his mother.

An American Tragedy 2004

As he turned from the mirror a look of self-commiseration mingled with his appreciation of his own physiognomy.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

They are looking to heaven and thinking about themselves, in self-commiseration.

Twilight in Italy 2003

After the First World War, when the world was basking in a glow of self-congratulation, it was Keynes who had rattled the skeleton in the closet; now in the thirties, when the world turned to self-commiseration, it was the same Keynes who bravely talked of an impending end to its travail.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

“Mr. Veblen,” wrote Ellen at the end of a long letter of self-commiseration, “though his part of the bargain is to furnish me with $25 a month—probably will not do it.”

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

After the First World War, when the world was basking in a glow of self-congratulation, it was Keynes who had rattled the skeleton in the closet; now in the thirties, when the world turned to self-commiseration, it was the same Keynes who bravely talked of an impending end to its travail.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999