Sentence examples for badly wishes from inspiring English sources

Such is the atonement of the title: an echo of the "sob of atonement" given by the governess in "The Turn of the Screw" as she kisses one of the children she so badly wishes to be innocent.

The spectacle of his corruption trial was an insult added to an injury New Orleans badly wishes to put behind it.

To be honest, he looks miserable throughout the film, as if badly wishing he were somewhere else.

I was referring to this week's Lives, and I very badly wish that weren't the case.

Reviewers took the absence badly, wishing for more visible feedback.

It is an exciting time for our nation, and the millions on the cusp of having an opportunity to earn citizenship in the United States of America - a country to which they badly wish to contribute.

I can't tell you how badly I wish that e-mail feature was automated so their friends and family could just zip photos off to the frame's built-in e-mail address.

Enough pain that I know I won't be able to attend their homecoming, despite how badly I wish I could.

By the end of his memoir, it seems (or perhaps the reader just wishes badly) that Castner is learning to live more at peace with his experiences.

He wished badly he had brought a camera.

In the end, how badly do we wish to witness death at the movies?