Sentence examples for wretched at from inspiring English sources

More than once she wretched at remembering the things that the men did to her.

He says he was "pretty wretched" at school and didn't reveal any academic "capability or interest" until he was about 16 and "discovered science in the biology lab".

(anag. + H, & lit).. VHC T. Anderson: The wretched at Hades oft get stifling temperature here (anag. less t, & lit.; ref Job 38, 17).

Computers proved to be very good at tasks that humans find difficult, like calculating large sums quickly and beating grand masters at chess, but they were wretched at this, one of the simplest of human activities.

The Burj Khalifa, like most super-tall skyscrapers, looks best from afar, and, certainly, it can't do much to mitigate the real horror of Dubai, which isn't the fact that most of the towers look gaudy on the sky line but that they are wretched at street level.

His argument is simple and devastating: environmentalists are right on the big fundamental question the earth is warming and we should do something about it but so wretched at crafting or even pushing for sensible policy that they end up doing more harm than good.

Tofu yogurt is nearly as wretched as the food at Shea Stadium (which, in case you didn't know, is probably the worst food in the world).

At one point during a particularly wretched bit at a country club a character shouts "no one at this table likes you!" It took all my might not to cry out "same goes for us in the theater!" What's so frustrating is that McCarthy can sell the Bill Murray-esque obnoxious bull-in-the-china shop character and still make her likable.

Let me say this to Senator Cotton: for Emad, who has taught himself English and bears no ill-will to Americans despite his wretched treatment at our hands, being held indefinitely at Guantánamo Bay is rotting in hell.

It is a wretched country at a potential turning point, just as China was at the time of the Nixon visit in 1972.

Football is a savagely cruel game but 10 wretched months at United will not totally obliterate 10 decent years at Everton.