Sentence examples for physical wretchedness from inspiring English sources

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In the same interview, he claimed that disease was not only physically debilitating but psychologically degrading: "physical wretchedness has done its worse on the human sufferer, for it has destroyed his mind... [it] annihilates the mental faculties the faculties distinctive of the human being".

Rarely has physical wretchedness been rendered with such delicacy.

"I'm coming back," I told Tom, because what I experienced during those first few hours, despite my exhaustion and wrinkled clothing and matted hair and overarching physical wretchedness, was a blush of the true, unfettered romance that I'd longed for and forced myself to feel in cities more clucked about, cities more fabled.

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In "Resolution and Independence", that great despondent William Wordsworth describes the descent from exuberance to wretchedness as a law of the physical universe.

In contrast to Newton's vision of wretchedness as his willful sin and distance from God, wretchedness has instead come to mean an obstacle of physical, social, or spiritual nature to overcome in order to achieve a state of grace, happiness, or contentment.

Underlying mood: despair at the wretchedness of the Arab condition.

Wretchedness, depicted with great verve, plays as fun.

Mentions "wretchedness" of Chaim Soutine & describes his self-portrait.

Should art transcend human wretchedness, or embrace it?

Because didn't misery imply a wallowing sort of wretchedness?

Now in London, here is a gra-dient of wretchedness?

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