Sentence examples for wretched world from inspiring English sources

Tragically, they cling to the scraps of life allowed to them in this wretched world.

Among the many terrible realities to which David Mamet exposes us in his exceptional, calculated work, one theme stands out: suckers will never get a break in this wretched world.

He had a wretched World Cup in June, and his private life became public after a prostitute sold her story of an encounter with Rooney during his wife's pregnancy last year.

He ended last season hobbled by the ankle injury, he had a wretched World Cup, and he has created more headlines about his marriage (and about what reports say is a relationship with a prostitute) than about his play.

This novel's heroine, a 19-year-old prostitute who plies her trade in Victorian London, confronts a wretched world armed with nothing more than wit, moxie and a good heart.

"The author takes the reader on a careering, kaleidoscopic tour" of the mayhem and the wretched world of Manhattan's immigrants, Geoffrey C. Ward said in these pages last year.

Returning to the wretched real world is a sad obligation.

The audience's tears are more likely to result from boredom, irritation at Hans Zimmer's wretched fake-world-music score and inadvertent amusement at the thunderously earnest dialogue and Ms. Bellucci's awkward line readings.

CENTRAL and Eastern Europeans think they have a deeper understanding of Russia and the Russians than anyone else, and given their wretched history since World War II, they should.

Today, while no one would actually sink a boat, not even the most progressive citizens of rich countries want their borders thrown open to the wretched of the world.

In his way, Franklin Graham had at last answered one of his father's severest critics, Reinhold Niebuhr, who had long ago written that the trouble with Billy Graham was that he talked the talk of social progress but his simple ministry of soul conversion did little to help the wretched of the world.