Sentence examples for sheer wretchedness from inspiring English sources

But nothing in that bungling could compare with the sheer wretchedness of the security police officers in the Biko case, who symbolized, in their brutal and callous treatment of a defenseless man, and in the jesting about it I heard in that courtroom passageway, just how far below human decency apartheid had descended.

Sheer fear, sheer terror.

Sheer illusion.

Sheer genius.

Sheer coincidence.

Sheer terror.

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?