Sentence examples for Wretched person from inspiring English sources

"There was nothing like walking around feeling you are a rejected person, a wretched person, as Frantz Fanon put it in 'The Wretched of the Earth.' " The attitudes toward dark skin have progressed as a result of discussion and the civil rights movement.

In my experience the trouble is that doctors and nurses won't recognise that anybody is dying, whereas this wretched person might be longing to die.

In fact, you could say – and this is so unusual for a painting of a monarch – that there is in this painting a complete division between the man who lives and breathes and the trappings that adorn his wretched person.

Despite what he's just said, he starts at the bottom and stays there a wretched person, a little girl, no less, has lost her mother and her father has married again to a horrible woman.

There were very few bodies belonging to women and children – probably because its main purpose was to cater for "poor scholars and other wretched persons" and pregnant women were excluded from its care.

Very few of the bodies belonged to women and children, perhaps because its main purpose was to cater for "poor scholars and other wretched persons" and pregnant women were excluded from this care.

If a story was about gang-rape, and all other Hebrew references to it and doublets (see Judges 19) of it, point to the motivation being wickedness, inhospitality to foreigners and greed, then they do not use that story to make an impressionable 15 year old who just nervously came out, feel like a wretched, evil person and kill himself rather than be labeled a "sodomite".

Marty's wife is a wretched soul.

The song concerns itself with all the strange and wretched miseries a person endures when the only thing he wants is no longer available to him; from that place, the notion of consolation is laughable.

The reasons for human suffering were innate and individual, not accidental and social, and it was absurd to hope to make "a joyful, happy race" from "many wretched and unhappy persons".

When a depressive looks at themselves, they see nothing of worth, a partial person, a wretched loser so in thrall to the strange machinations of their own mind that they have to pat themselves on the back and give themselves a gold star just for getting up, getting out and completing their working day.