Sentence examples for wretchedness I from inspiring English sources

I close my eyes and try to recapture the wretchedness I felt the last time I was stood here, but I cannot.

Or it could be that I'm just full of spite and wretchedness, I don't know.

With a nod to his two formative years of travel in the Mediterranean, from 1809 to 1811, he asserts that "never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country".

One chat from the summer about a breakup shifted from indecision to decision in 369 characters, and is full of such admissions, wretchedness and sadness, I can't believe we got through it.

Now the money I earn is exchanged for my fatigue, but I have no other way to go, and there are days I awaken upon wretchedness.

Afterwards, in the thickening twilight and with the first vapours of sedation gathering, I felt my wretchedness in the joy of others: the shoppers and their gift bags; the lovers giggling; the young man on the tube engrossed in a book.

"When I arrived, I was shocked by the wretchedness of the prisoners.

I felt that in some way I had profited from their wretchedness.

When he got to debtors' prison, in July of 1797, he decorated: "The necessary repairs of the apartment allotted to me in this abode of human wretchedness has so engrossed my attention that I have not looked into a book scarcely the last week," he complained in his diary.

"I passed a night of unmingled wretchedness," pants the tortured title character in one of many a palpitating passage in Mary Shelley's gothic novel "Frankenstein".

I'm with you on the wretchedness of the last three Star Wars films – or the first three, as Lucas's half-hearted renumbering of the series would have us refer to them.