Sentence examples for not wretched from inspiring English sources

It was the lamentable misjudgments and reckless overreaching of some of the biggest British, American and European banks and financial institutions, not wretched political crooks in Lahore, Doha or Buenos Aires, that plunged much of the world into avoidable austerity and recession.

Bibb, aka Salem, told me she was in love with Salem, and Stoddart's vision of the profane but not wretched past-her-prime model when she got a look at the script last August.

I follow readily, but if I choose not, Wretched though I am, I must follow still.

So you can gun the Range Rover to 60 mph in a respectable nine seconds, which isn't stellar, but isn't wretched, either.

Trust them, not your wretched committees.

We are not the wretched of Belsen!

All told, Poland is politically stable.Even the farm outlook is not all wretched.

Taylor arrived from Wigan in 2009 and made 110 appearances for Newcastle - a figure which would have been much higher was it not for wretched luck with injuries.

Little is left in Thurber itself but a smokestack, the graveyard (divided into Catholic, Protestant and black areas) and a few company buildings.The story is not all wretched, however.

Antonio seems unable or unwilling to embrace the obvious redemptive moral - that his son is the important possession, not the wretched bicycle - and De Sica is unwilling to embrace it either, perhaps precisely because it is too obvious, or because this moral is a luxury that only well-off people can afford.

Books offer us a shared experience with characters as they struggle with these aspects of life, and also provide a means to place our own deeds and misdeeds in silent measurement – I'm clearly not as wretched as that fellow; or, just as likely: that feels terribly close to home.