Finally Gregor has only himself to blame for the wretchedness of his situation, since he has willingly accepted wretchedness as it was thrust upon him.
Whitechapel as he saw it was a thriving, prosperous place, with its wide, busy, well-lit central artery, and all the wretchedness and squalor were buried in contiguous courts.
It's that powerful in its wretchedness.
Yet, it is coming, and with it, all the wretchedness of its meaning.
It is only fair to note that unmingled wretchedness is, like beauty, in the eye and ear of the beholder.
It is clearly a work of fantasy, eschewing the wretchedness of a peasant's life.
It's awful!" He seemed strangely pleased: the scene's wretchedness reaffirmed his faith in the audience.
It is not because the material is raw, with its accounts of lesbian sex invariably ending in wretchedness, but because the writing is.
It is a year after the crucifixion, and such are the depths of her wretchedness that she can barely bring herself to think about her first-born at all.
Raising people above that level of wretchedness is not a sufficient ambition for a prosperous planet, but it is a necessary one.The world's achievement in the field of poverty reduction is, by almost any measure, impressive.
