Sentence examples for wretched character from inspiring English sources

It's a wretched character, and a truly hateful performance.

The English actor, who dredges up sludgy buckets of anguish and terror from inside his wretched character, has always had a feverish faraway look in his eyes.

They are peopled by wrecked, wretched characters, gaunt and pale, twitching and whimpering at the upcoming apocalypse.

Other strange voices, other weird or wretched characters, surfaced in that year to haunt or infest my fiction.

The wretched characters, affectless prose and clinical descriptions of group sex ("Bruno and Rudi took turns penetrating Hannelore") are deeply disturbing.

But when you watch it (as I watched it) at a film festival, in a cinema of eight hundred and thirty-two seats, every one of them occupied, something strange may overtake you—a grim, communal determination to stay with these wretched characters in their hour and a half of need.

And you can't say to someone, 'I'm offended by your life story.'" She plays Levitt's "wretched girlfriend", making it her second despicable character in a row, after The Help. "I'm totally on a mean streak this year," she laughs.

David is a wretched case.

And far too much attention is taken by the wretched Jester, a character fecklessly added to "Swan Lake" by the Soviets.

In Ian McEwan's novel Sweet Tooth, set in the wretched 1970s, a character writes a novel about the end of the capitalist industrial world.

"Texas Night Train" amounts to about 10 minutes of storytelling in 75 minutes of repetitive film, ill-defined characters, wretched acting and droning voice-over maunderings.