Sentence examples for wretchedness and from inspiring English sources

It has turned into an epic display of human wretchedness and filth.

St. Aubyn is seen to have done something remarkable with his balance of wretchedness and wit.

When she left him it was wretchedness, and when she came to him again it was despair.

Forget the call to ensure that the world's poorest do not suffer twice, once because of their wretchedness and twice because rich-world aid budgets are cut.

Their encounter provides a slightly too explicit reminder that, for all his wretchedness and misbehavior, Nick is, deep down, a decent guy.

"Gin drinking is a great vice in England," he wrote in the early 1830's, when he was still a journalist, "but wretchedness and dirt are greater".

It is the faith of social justice activists like Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, the church whose pope pleaded for relief of the "misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class" in an 1891 encyclical.

These musings on happiness by an eminent Australian novelist and poet revolve around the question of why it eludes so many of us, "when the chief sources of human unhappiness, of misery and wretchedness, have largely been removed from our lives".

These musings on happiness by an eminent Australian novelist and poet revolve around the question of why it eludes so many of us, "when the chief sources of human _un_happiness, of misery and wretchedness, have largely been removed from our lives".

Of primary concern was the need for some amelioration for "the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class".

The Pope spoke urgently of the need to find "some opportune remedy... for the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class".