Sentence examples for wretched impression from inspiring English sources

To compound the wretched impression he was making, Mr Berlusconi also made a series of rambling, jocular remarks about the delights of Italy as a tourist destination and the excellence of Italian television.

He is said to be "a kindly, worried little man," and the diminutive marks him as a bit player: an impression confirmed by "The Looking-Glass War" (1965), where he is granted a wretched and thankless minor part, pulling agents out of a job near the East German border, and leaving another man at the mercy of the foe.

And they were wretched.

O wretched state!

Beeber was wretched.

Conditions are wretched.

"I feel absolutely wretched.

They are wretched birds.