Sentence examples for has been wretched from inspiring English sources

This time, it is a symptom of weakness.The past year in Japan has been wretched.

It may be dominant in time, but so far it has been wretched.

Its hijacking by commercial and nationalist ballyhoo has been wretched, but at least in theory a positive calculus might be assessed.

Van Gaal said that Zaha, whose United career has been wretched since he arrived from Crystal Palace last summer, would play his first football of United's tour against the Italians at the FedEx Field tonight.

In private, Mr Clegg still supports reform of the NHS, including greater use of non-state providers (though he thinks the political presentation of the reforms by the Tory health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has been wretched, and that the changes could have been achieved without new legislation).

The problem for the Timbers is that two of their remaining games come away from Providence Park, and their away form has been wretched since the start of the year: their 2-1 victoverover CD Dragon of El Salvador in the Concacaf Champions League on Wednesday night was their first victory on the road all season.

Life had been wretched as a child and young person.

The Yankees' relievers have been wretched, but this loss was not their fault.

She had been wretched and trapped, and now she was not.

This is an era where revenge porn verges on an epidemic and there have been wretched attempts to shame celebrities with their own stolen explicit images.

In the end, however, Mr Critz beat the Republicans' Tim Burns, a self-made local millionaire, by a respectable margin of 53% to 45%.A defeat here would have been wretched for the Democrats.