Sentence examples for wretched collection from inspiring English sources
Instead, what we get is a wretched collection of thieves and murderers, backstabbers and brawlers, every one of them hugely entertaining.
In a one-star review, Slant Magazine's Erich Henderson panned Versus as a "wretched collection of failed club-sex jams".
Can you imagine the headline when a distraught gunman storms into the government office where his ex-wife works, marches straight up to her desk and dumps his wretched gun collection on the floor, tells her he's sorry for everything and wishes her a blissful and happy life, just before heading off to Tibet to study transcendental meditation for a year and become a poet?
3Elizabeth Lincoln sent this lock of hair to Samuel Norton, ca. 1780, with the final lines of "The Friend" by Anne Steele: "Oh may I make my friend's distress my own — Nor let my heart unhappy grieve alone — In sorrow let me never want a friend — Nor when the wretched mourn a tear to lend". Collection of Houghton Library.
This collection's central concerns are childlessness, wretched but intense love affairs ("pockmarks in the walls spoke of her many attempts to impale me with her shoes"), bizarrely symbolic pets and mortality.
One way or the other, she contracted HIV.Consigned to the Shalom hospice, a collection of wooden shacks in Churachandpur, in India's north-eastern state of Manipur, her plight is wretched.
