Sentence examples for a wretched of from inspiring English sources

She has become one of the abject castaways of the musical's title, a wretched of the earth.

The Big Mo, by Mark Roeder (Virgin, £11.99) Coincidentally, Tony Blair has recently complained of "a wretched policy of apology", and Bob Diamond of Barclays last month looked at his watch and declared: "The time for apologies is over".

Now he has the chance to make amends for a wretched record of neglect of the country's road and rail system over the past decade.

"This universally disgraceful 'renaming' action by Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122's Commander is a literally breath-taking example of a wretched alloy of both blatant unconstitutionality and boundless stupidity.

The church lay in the outskirts of Pervomaisk — a wretched corpse of a town, ruined by months of frontline fighting in Ukraine's far eastern frontier.

Four years later, an Iraq-damaged Tony Blair won a reduced but healthy majority of 66 with a wretched 35.2 per cent of the vote on a pitiful turnout of 61.4 per cent.

The experience that they have endured is a wretched indictment of some officers and of the leadership of the capital's police.

The mind-numbingly inconsequential plot might have worked in a short film or an episode of Pegg's sitcom, Spaced, but as a feature film A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a wretched waste of time.

There is no shortage of stories to tell.Such a wretched state of affairs carries a price for India.

What's inside?" I was out of breath, standing there holding a wretched can of invisible peas.

As the soldiers speed away, a wretched line of women marches past carrying impossible loads of wood picked from the debris.