Sentence examples for wretched by from inspiring English sources
But not all parents are made wretched by their offspring.
Every country that has endured one has been made wretched by it.
It is a pittance, but the American campaign against sweatshops could make his life much more wretched by inadvertently encouraging mechanization that could cost him his job.
His existence here seems to have been forlorn and unproductive, and made yet more wretched by the death of Elizabeth in 1603.
I wasn't the only one who noticed: Swift's medley was disparaged as "strikingly bad" (by Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times) and "incredibly wretched" (by Chris Richards of the Washington Post).
Her life is made wretched by her affections, which are divided between her first love, the Hong Kong tycoon who made her rich, the poor but talented poet and the father of her understandably confused 11-year-old daughter, Nini.On this form, Chinese footballers will qualify for the World Cup long before a Chinese novelist wins the Nobel prize.
On this month's fiction podcast, George Saunders reads two short stories from the New Yorker archive: "Love," by Grace Paley, from 1979, and "The Wretched Seventies," by Barry Hannah, from 1996.
By The New Yorker October 1, 2014 [audio url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/170197190"] On this month's fiction podcast, George Saunders reads two short stories from the New Yorker archive: "Love," by Grace Paley, from 1979, and "The Wretched Seventies," by Barry Hannah, from 1996.
A double fault by Ferrero handed Costa yesterday's match, and summed up a quite wretched performance by the younger of the two Spaniards, although this is to take nothing away from Costa.
But some of those caught told of their wretched journeys by freighter from China to the coast of British Columbia, according to documents filed in the December indictment.
Volpe and Levine have made partial amends for that wretched record by bringing forth four new operas in the past fifteen years, with Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" on deck for next season.
