Sentence examples for a woeful condition from inspiring English sources

Providence, like many cities and states, is in a woeful condition.

Those foot-soldier readers who successfully march through all of Dickens's fiction may wind up feeling like David at his journey's end, with shoes in a woeful condition ("the upper leathers had broken and burst until the very shape and form of shoes had departed from them") and skin powdered "white with chalk and dust, as if I had come out of a limekiln".

They ended up making a film that ties Detroit's woeful condition to the sense of decline that spread across the United States with the housing and financial crises.

But most of the bones were buried in wooden coffins outside the churchyard and probably were those of poorer rural people, whose daily lives are less well known than the nobility of cities. Commoners' bones will provide a counterpoint to Fornaciari's work elsewhere revealing the woeful condition of the well-fed nobility.

Anu Anand When more than a million protesters took to the street of Brazil last year, the woeful condition of the public healthcare system was high among their list of grievances.

Another woeful condition for mascots is that children half their size feel free to pummel them straight on, a prospect almost too painful to type.

When he sees the woeful condition of the maple, he too wonders what happened to the trimmer the city was supposed to send.

Zoe Williams's touching plea to reconfigure the legacy of the former PM (We need to talk about the legacy of Tony Blair, 9 April) only serves to reinforce the widely held view that even the "liberal" media is incapable of offering the radical analysis of our current woeful condition that the times demand.

This view angers some academics, Ceci says, especially those "still wedded to the idea that women's woeful condition is due to discrimination".

In 2009, Justice Department officials released a lengthy report about the jail's woeful conditions, and then in April 2012 released an even more scathing update.

In Russia, drug users are routinely cramped into large numbers in one room in woeful conditions, with inadequate food, often tied to beds for periods of up to 24 hours.