I felt that in some way I had profited from their wretchedness.
On Sept. 11, 2001, dozens of New Yorkers died far from the wretchedness at the trade center: 151, according to the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Henry Ford thought of cars as tools for liberating humanity from the wretchedness of cities, which he viewed with as much distaste as Jefferson did.
Nevertheless, until I am able to exercise that right, I want to live in safety and dignity somewhere, anywhere, away from the wretchedness of this desert and the carnage of Iraq.
In "Resolution and Independence", that great despondent William Wordsworth describes the descent from exuberance to wretchedness as a law of the physical universe.
GABE: Marriages all go through a kind of base-line wretchedness from time to time, but we do what we can to ride those patches out.
For readers acquainted with the fiction of Patrick McCabe and Roddy Doyle, with an Ireland whose sordid aspects proceed from poverty, here is a different Ireland, a newly affluent Dublin whose wretchedness proceeds from wealth.
In the first century A.D., kept from his wife, Calpurnia, by legal drudgery, he found time to write that he sought refuge in "toil" and "wretchedness" to distract himself from the pain of their separation.
Once sounded, that note of brotherly encouragement ("I see them and complain not and am content with all") never died; watch John Ford's film of "The Grapes of Wrath," and you find the title's fury starting to ease in the gentle framing of the Joads' resilient expressions, and in the sense that every searcher, even in hours of wretchedness, could take heart from the swell of fellow-feeling.
His grandfather suffered horribly from black lung disease -- a wretchedness caused by years of breathing in tiny coal dust particles -- and Howard himself was diagnosed with it years ago.
