Sentence examples for wretched attempt from inspiring English sources

Two hours later, in a kind of dream, I took a break, went into the garden for ten minutes, then decided that I should get on with my own wretched attempt.

The ultimate responsibility for this wretched attempt at authoritarian government lies with ministers, and in a few weeks the British people will be able to pass judgment on them".

This is an era where revenge porn verges on an epidemic and there have been wretched attempts to shame celebrities with their own stolen explicit images.

Almost as wretched have been the archbishop's attempts to reconcile Church of England differences over women bishops: a long-running saga that continues to bedevil relations.

Queens of the Stone Age provided a glorious and welcome counterpoint to Papa Roach frontman Coby Dick attempting to validate his band's wretched din by informing journalists that he had wet the bed into his teens.

James's attempts to address this issue have a wretched outcome: he is accused of arrogance, racism and irrelevance.

"Greece cannot accept the economic exploitation of hundreds or even thousands of our fellow human beings and the wretched conditions in which they are made to live, let alone their attempted murder," the minister of public order, Nikos Dendias, said in a statement.

9.09pm BST 6 min: I write a lengthy chunk of text detailing what a wretched start to the game Mesut Ozil has had and it disappears as I attempt to launch it.

Sure, the kid showed heart on the field, but My All American makes no attempt to actually show the ugliness and horror that comes with fighting this wretched illness.

Kings try to capture that, and priests attempt To use it when they justify a war; Lacking that, houses and altars deserve contempt Like a wretched heap of rubbish, nothing more.

So there have been lame attempts to excerpt works, summarise them, have the authors or stars introduce them humorously (or pretentiously) – all wretched failures.