The stink of wretchedness, of a miserable, indifferent grave, is already in my nostrils".
It is clearly a work of fantasy, eschewing the wretchedness of a peasant's life.
They are falling fast towards the relegation zone while teams below are sprouting wings, none more so than Leicester, whose late-season surge continued here thanks to two goals from Leonardo Ulloa, one by Wes Morgan, and the wretchedness of a Newcastle side that finished with nine men and were accused of cowardice by their own manager.
There have been many attempts in rock'n'roll to distil the experience of heartbreak – not the wider misery exactly, the wailing and the wretchedness, but of a lover's ability, as the Decemberists once put it, "to rend your ventricles apart".
It's more fun than Kurva, in which the Reial Companyia de Teatre de Catalunya recreate the wretchedness of roadside prostitution on a byway in the hills above Hove.
On the other hand, the deaths and the injuries and the general wretchedness of life in limbo in a jungle camp will be tacitly used to deter asylum seekers overseas and, more importantly, to remind voters that Abbott is hard on refugees, just as he promised.
If he does play, and for all the wretchedness of his last visit, there will be a corner of Portland Victoria that feels a flush of pride.
Joe never recovered from the wretchedness of his childhood and it remained a presence throughout his life.
Readers have sometimes complained that my win-a-trip journeys focus on the wretchedness of the developing world — warlords, malnourished children, maternal mortality.
Eurídice, eager to escape the wretchedness of the northeastern bush, sold her watch, a donkey and her portraits of the saints to buy space on a pau de arara, a rickety open-ended truck with boards for seating.
Even when many things in the reality of our lives enrage and depress me, even when the miracle disintegrates into tiny fragments of routine and wretchedness, of corruption and cynicism, even when the country looks like a bad parody of that miracle, I remember the miracle always.
