Sentence examples for a rather wretched from inspiring English sources

It's not difficult to imagine a rather wretched future.

"Most of the 25 countries on that list, which are in the EU, have a rather wretched record of sustainability in fisheries".

Ethiopia and others may well prefer to see a weak and wretched Somalia rather than a united and Islamist one.

I am surprised, however, to find that someone who claims to respect culture and discipline chooses to mock Reginald Maudling as a "Hegel enthusiast", as if habitual Hegel-reading were a wretched self-indulgence rather than an arduous long-term cultural investment.

The source of his success has been a preconception that Japan is not a single wretched market but rather a menu of 3,000 stocks.

Ever since the Smiths, Morrissey has presented himself as a melodramatic deity, who treats his pangs of the heart with such excessive vigour and doomed brio that he comes on like a provincial Byronic hero; most obviously, in How Soon Is Now? he recoils from rejection like a wretched, misunderstood creature, rather than a mere man who's not much cop at flirting and fails to pull at a nightclub.

But the lack of a UN figure sends a wretched message to Syrians.

Better a noble death than a wretched life.

A wretched villain, a quiet hero.

Along the way Socrates makes yet another point of great importance, namely that the poets ought not be permitted to say that those punished for misdeeds are wretched; rather, they must say that in paying a (just) penalty, bad men are benefited by the god (380b2 6).

It's a wretched character, and a truly hateful performance.