Sentence examples similar to extreme wretchedness from inspiring English sources

He became an opium addict and a chronic drunkard, and the last years of his life were spent in extreme neglect and wretchedness.

A British diplomat who visited Warsaw in January 1919 reported: "I have nowhere seen anything like the evidences of extreme poverty and wretchedness that meet one's eye at almost every turn".

"Just before his second inauguration, the President spoke to Jefferson of the 'extreme wretchedness of my existence while in office,' " wrote John Rhodehamel, curator of the Huntington Library show, in the excellent catalogue, "The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic Yale University Pressss).

The media make wretchedness commonplace.

Underlying mood: despair at the wretchedness of the Arab condition.

Wretchedness, depicted with great verve, plays as fun.

Mentions "wretchedness" of Chaim Soutine & describes his self-portrait.

Should art transcend human wretchedness, or embrace it?

Because didn't misery imply a wallowing sort of wretchedness?

Now in London, here is a gra-dient of wretchedness?

Speak, though thy words bring wretchedness to me.