Sentence examples for A wretchedness from inspiring English sources

Leaving the prime minister's residence on Sunday, Niki reported, Giorgos Karatzaferis, leader of the Popular Orthodox Rally, said he "will not contribute to the explosion of a revolution due to a wretchedness that will then spread across Europe".

His grandfather suffered horribly from black lung disease -- a wretchedness caused by years of breathing in tiny coal dust particles -- and Howard himself was diagnosed with it years ago.

There has rarely been a rivalry to speak of — one franchise rising as the other is falling, or both hitting the skids simultaneously, in a rivalry of wretchedness.

"Gin drinking is a great vice in England," he wrote in the early 1830's, when he was still a journalist, "but wretchedness and dirt are greater".

Get married or sentence yourself to a lifetime of wretchedness.

It is clearly a work of fantasy, eschewing the wretchedness of a peasant's life.

The confessions of musicians who have been through rehab can sound a little rote: a greatest hits of wretchedness, routinely recounted to journalists from the sunlit uplands of sobriety.

But anyone who travels knows that wretchedness on a plane is only a matter of degree and never confined to a single passenger.

It has one of the best closet scenes ever: with Clare Higgins as a raunchy, bibulous Gertrude dishevelling into a tousled heap of wretchedness.

According to Jonathan Freedland, a Guardian columnist who wrote "Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic," the country's apparently boundless tolerance for multifaceted wretchedness is an atavistic echo of its roots as a feudal society -- deferential to authority and grateful for what its rulers deign to dole out.

"I passed a night of unmingled wretchedness," pants the tortured title character in one of many a palpitating passage in Mary Shelley's gothic novel "Frankenstein".