Sentence examples for a wretched scene from inspiring English sources

It was a wretched scene – but one that has become familiar in Egypt.

One official from the council's Integrated Team for Families, who made a routine visit in March 2011, described a wretched scene.

Sir Stephen Glynne noted on his visit in 1865 that the church was now abandoned and presenting "a wretched scene of decay" internally.

As the nation's flag is folded by uniformed members and a uniformed general officer presides over the ceremony, is the Air Force prepared for the appearance of unconstitutional impropriety and fundamentalist religious supremacy and primacy that such a wretched scene entails when hate-filled speech, disguised as permissible religious "free expression", begins to malodorously fill the air?

It is a wretched prospect, yet currently a real one.

The wretched scene at court paled alongside the brutality of the crime of which Oland, 47, a former financial advisor, has now been convicted.

That contributed to the wretched scenes in Hungary and Austria.

I can but only throw my humble opinion into the ring, as I sit up here in the nosebleed section, mournfully watching the wretched scenes of this frightful American melodrama unfold.

Yet incidents like the Bell shooting inspired a kind of split-screen effect, with one side featuring the meteoric ascent of a black Presidential candidate and the other replaying a wretched but familiar scene of excessive police force directed at a black male victim.

Chicago also shot a wretched 33percentt from the field.

Although he describes the most wretched, pitiful scenes, he is always quick to undermine our sympathy.