Sentence examples for human wretchedness from inspiring English sources

He calls instead for "a far-sighted humanism based on human wretchedness" that would not "have saved us from wars, revolutions and cataclysms – these have never been found wanting … but it would certainly have saved us from wars on a national scale, revolutions on a world scale, from mechanized barbarism, from gas and germ warfare – and from racism".

Should art transcend human wretchedness, or embrace it?

It has turned into an epic display of human wretchedness and filth.

What Fincher, with his acute eye for human wretchedness, will make of Ellroy's 40s-set tale of obsession is enough to set the nerves jangling already.

When he got to debtors' prison, in July of 1797, he decorated: "The necessary repairs of the apartment allotted to me in this abode of human wretchedness has so engrossed my attention that I have not looked into a book scarcely the last week," he complained in his diary.

In his depiction of the Petersburg background, Dostoyevsky accentuates the squalor and human wretchedness that pass before Raskolnikov's eyes.

These musings on happiness by an eminent Australian novelist and poet revolve around the question of why it eludes so many of us, "when the chief sources of human unhappiness, of misery and wretchedness, have largely been removed from our lives".

These musings on happiness by an eminent Australian novelist and poet revolve around the question of why it eludes so many of us, "when the chief sources of human _un_happiness, of misery and wretchedness, have largely been removed from our lives".

"These women... acknowledged in their own eccentric way the wretchedness of human history, which they would no doubt have called the sinfulness of the world".

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.

It is the first of many stark, declarative statements about a human condition of cruelty and wretchedness that afflicts the lives of countless young people in distant African lands, people whose stories we are unaccustomed to hearing.