Sentence examples for such wretchedness from inspiring English sources

It is both shocking and outrageous that the Royal Opera, a company of supposed international standards and standing, should be putting on a new opera of such wretchedness and lack of musical worth.

The captain looks down into steerage and confronts such wretchedness that he cannot stop himself from dreaming that in some world, somewhere, people would be bothered by it: "And it is all so bitterly unmerited.

The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims "were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same".

One chat from the summer about a breakup shifted from indecision to decision in 369 characters, and is full of such admissions, wretchedness and sadness, I can't believe we got through it.

With a nod to his two formative years of travel in the Mediterranean, from 1809 to 1811, he asserts that "never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country".

Rarely has physical wretchedness been rendered with such delicacy.

It is a year after the crucifixion, and such are the depths of her wretchedness that she can barely bring herself to think about her first-born at all.

Out of sight are pockets of wretchedness similar to slums in developing countries such as India.

While faulting Ohlin for the purported wretchedness of her metaphors, he squeezes out such memorable phrases as "flies around like kites in a waning zephyr," "stiffened in a morgue of mentation" and "the cosmos takes on a coruscated import".

Winehouse was clearly no stranger to the tendrils of addiction, using the term as a romantic metaphor for obsession in "Addiction" itself, while some of the most striking songs on her Back to Black album, such as the title track and "You Know I'm No Good", are infused with the underlying sense of wretchedness and self-loathing which often accompanies the condition.

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