Sentence examples for wretched look from inspiring English sources

The Legacy is set in and around the country mansion of the an artist, Veronika Grønnegaard, who in the drama's first episode emerges from a hospital's oncology department grimly lighting up a cigarette and sporting a wretched look – one that surely betokens she has just received her death sentence from cancer.

"Our house was the most wretched looking on the street, a patchwork of cement and drainpipes.

SEVEN years ago, the cover of The Economist had a picture of a wretched looking black teenager cuddling a baby in what looked like a third-world shanty town but turned out to be Chicago ("Welfare's children", June 18th 1994).

Eight times a week the group transform themselves into a hideous bunch of pathetic wretched-looking lunatics.

He hasn't turned his head from the plight of a boat full of wretched individuals looking for shelter, and then adding insult to injury by saying they threw their kids overboard first".

For the better part of six months, the Los Angeles Lakers belittled the 82-game regular season, treating it like a pregame warm-up, where missed layups and botched passes are irrelevant, where how splendid or how wretched one looks means nothing.

His humorous eye made the entire country look wretched.

The Don Valley and south Lancashire look wretched alongside the Ruhr or Toulouse.

The plant will look wretched, but remember the old adage, 'growth follows the knife'.

Because they look wretched and sickly, and because they are tough and have their own fighting units and are full of chutzpa.

Dressed in the same suit and tie he'd worn on stage a few hours earlier, his face pale and heavy, Peres looked wretched.