And so they weathered the deluge, swimming and wading through varying depths until they were finally picked up by Ms. Oleynik's cousin, whom the couple had managed to reach despite the wretched cellphone service.
The short menu, with some of Mr. DeMarco's distinctively modern twists on old ideas, was intriguing, but the execution was flawed and the service wretched.
I don't want to be the source of unhappiness, owner of another slice-and-dice, slash-and-dash Hamptons restaurant, where service is wretched, attitudes desultory, and the food, no matter how good, has been marinated in tension for so long that guests have already swallowed more vino and vexation than they can handle.
The state, home to huge numbers of poor, runs a big deficit, has wretched roads and public services.
How did so much customer service become so wretched?
If you think airline deregulation was an abomination because service can be wretched and airline bankruptcies are common, you will like Lind's telling.
The government will get a big boost if it can at last bring basic services into the wretched slums of Sadr City, such as electricity, sanitation and medicine.
The author's response, "To millions of people she is a 'living saint' for her unselfish service to the diseased, the dying, the wretched, the homeless, the outcast".
Stephens entered a particularly wretched period where she won just one point in four service games.
Nonetheless, by exposing the wretched condition of these invisible Americans, he has performed a noble and badly needed service.
