Sentence examples for or wretched from inspiring English sources

Needless to say, the judges were either beastly or crazed, and the participants ruthless or wretched.

Other strange voices, other weird or wretched characters, surfaced in that year to haunt or infest my fiction.

This wasn't due to the advent of the talkies: there is no suggestion that her voice was especially reedy or ridiculous or wretched.

It's an entirely different sensation than you get on any roller coaster or wretched twirly teacup ride, and as an added bonus, at the apex you are given a spectacular view of Coney Island.

Or, instead, my friends and I will argue about who suffers more — I say that they are in worse trouble with their depression or bad digestion or wretched feet, and they claim that my eye trouble is worse.

Servicemen returning from their term of duty would land in San Diego and disappear into the hinterland rather than go home, finding refuge in drugs, alcohol or wretched anonymity.

The story always involves some expulsion from Eden, whether by the hippies of the 1960s, or the suffragists, or the wretched refuse of the shtetls, or the French Revolution, or the Enlightenment, or Luther, or Machiavelli or the sack of Rome.

She had to comply or her wretched conditions would worsen.

Everything else is garnish, and all of it leaves you feeling either one-dimensionally frenetic or complicatedly wretched.

Or, perhaps "wretched ordinariness" itself is the deepest mystery, if love (and art) have only the genius to find it out.

The documented lynchings of 4,743 people, most of them black, from 1882 to 1968 were a hideous strain on the national soul, but Clarence Thomas's "high-tech lynching" or the wretched message at Columbia are not the same thing.