Sentence examples for somehow wounded from inspiring English sources

Her look is almost insolent, but somehow wounded.

He quickly discovered that Nixon was a fantastically weird and solitary man rude, unthoughtful, broiling with resentment against the Eastern élites who had somehow wounded him, be it in his imagination or in fact.

Indignation about appropriation is a new frontier in the ever-expanding empire of cultivated victimhood: "Marginalized" persons from a particular culture supposedly are somehow wounded when "privileged" people — those who are unvictimized or less victimized — express or even just enjoy the culture of more pure victims without their permission.

The BBC, therefore, isn't wrong, or bad: it is guilty of "failure", or of being "defective", a word somehow particularly wounding in its total lack of malevolence.

Wounded, wounded, wounded!

Casner devotes several pages to the proper technique for slicing a bagel; annually, three hundred and thirty-three thousAmericanscuts cuthemselvesesoso badly with kitchen knives that they have to go to the E.R. Twenty-one thousand people hurt themselves with food processors; twenty-eight thousand injure themselves with hammers; forty thousand are wounded, somehow, by their washing machines.

The soldiers were wounded but somehow managed to get out of there fast enough to avoid serious doses of radiation.

And it describes the daily patrols through streets where snipers and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) are a constant hazard, where God or luck or a split second can determine whether one dies, is grievously wounded or somehow escapes unscathed.

This is, after all, the party that swayed the American people to believe that John Kerry, who went to Vietnam and was wounded, was somehow less patriotic than Bush, who used the influence of his wealthy parents to get out of having to fight in the war.

Stories of grievously wounded people who somehow cheated death because of resilience, luck and the extraordinary efforts of strangers.

Their two badly wounded colleagues, Jaquione Johnson and Patrick Castro, somehow managed to crawl up the stairs to call for help.