Sentence examples for the wretchedness of from inspiring English sources

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

It is clearly a work of fantasy, eschewing the wretchedness of a peasant's life.

"When I arrived, I was shocked by the wretchedness of the prisoners.

The family now lives in the wretchedness of Tajabad, one of Peshawar's many squatter colonies that teem with Afghan refugees.

Readers have sometimes complained that my win-a-trip journeys focus on the wretchedness of the developing world — warlords, malnourished children, maternal mortality.

"Beauty causes the wretchedness of this place," the novel tells us, but though its message is powerful, it feels overly didactic.

Now we have to view our solipsism and wretched excess through the prism of the "epic wretchedness" of the Afghan people, as The Times's Barry Bearak called it.

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.

On the other hand, the deaths and the injuries and the general wretchedness of life in limbo in a jungle camp will be tacitly used to deter asylum seekers overseas and, more importantly, to remind voters that Abbott is hard on refugees, just as he promised.

Omprakash Valmiki, whose Hindi autobiography, "Joothan: A Dalit's Life", has been translated into English, read poems about the routine wretchedness of the lives of poor Indians.

And the Sibelius-like composer in "The Silence," who has been suffering from writer's block for nearly 30 years, complains about "the infinite wretchedness of the artist's lot": "so much work, talent and courage, and then everything is over," he thinks.