Sentence examples for somewhat wretched from inspiring English sources

Kyle Gallner has been doing solid work in everything from Veronica Mars to The Haunting In Connecticut, so his appearance bodes well for improving upon the somewhat wretched teen acting in the original.

The sound quality is pretty wretched, though.

I mean it was pretty wretched.

I wish the program hadn't told us that Mr. Baecher's "Arachnophilia" is inspired by Louise Bourgeois's wretched spider sculptures; the dance is somewhat better than they deserve.

About 1871 a Parisian transport worker, Eugène Pottier, wrote the words (as a poem), which begin, "Debout, les damnés de la terre" ("Arise, the wretched of the earth") and acclaim, "Nous n'étions rien donc, soyons tout!" ("We were nothing thus let us be everything!"); somewhat later a Lille industrial worker, Pierre Degeyter, wrote the music.

And they were wretched.

O wretched state!

Beeber was wretched.

Conditions are wretched.

"I feel absolutely wretched.

O wretched me!