Sentence examples for how wretched from inspiring English sources

How wretched she that slew him, he thus slain!

That should suggest how wretched and rough state politics can be.

A play about how wretched the life of a would-be actor is.

A whole people, no matter how wretched or obscure, must certainly be worth three days of ammunition.

He treasured family and friendship; how wretched it must have been for him to hold himself apart from people for fear of being found out.

"I find it interesting that adults are so nostalgic about a story that is about how wretched and miserable a lot of growing up is.

Exactly how disruptive, wretched and illogical is the so-called "spare bedroom tax", and precisely how much chaos will it inflict on some of the UK's poorest families when it crashes into their lives in April?

Just how truly wretched the sexual weather was in Vienna in the eighteen-nineties may be gleaned from the letters that Freud wrote to his friend Wilhelm Fliess between 1887 and 1902.

They've poked their way into my living room, stopped me working, sabotaged my printer, which was specially set up to match Windows 7, stopped the sound on iPlayer, wasted hours of my time while I fiddle about trying to find files and sort out how this wretched new system works.

(See, for example, this New Republic column by Katherine Marsh on how the "wretched state of parenthood has become the story du jour". ) The anti-natalist bias is implicit in many of the influences that shape our sense of self and purpose, our identity, our aspirations and our understanding of success and the good life.

How whiny and wretched, tormented and convinced -- convinced!