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Readers have sometimes complained that my win-a-trip journeys focus on the wretchedness of the developing world — warlords, malnourished children, maternal mortality.
I Know It's Over was the album's grand, melodramatic centrepiece – a banquet of self pity in which Morrissey feasts on the wretchedness of life as he feels the soil falling over his head.
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.
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.
Belarus's plight makes even the heavily managed democracy in its eastern neighbour, Russia, seem lively.And the wretchedness of Belarus continues to cast doubt on whether its proposed merger with Russia will ever take place.
Much like the photo of Alan Kurdi, the young Syrian refugee who drowned in September last year while trying to reach Europe, the footage of five-year-0ld Omran Daqneesh being rescued from the rubble of his apartment block in Aleppo has encapsulated the wretchedness of the Syrian war and its effect on children.
The journey from wretchedness to redemption is one of the most common narrative arcs in memoir, from St. Augustine onward.
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.
While faulting Ohlin for the purported wretchedness of her metaphors, he squeezes out such memorable phrases as "flies around like kites in a waning zephyr," "stiffened in a morgue of mentation" and "the cosmos takes on a coruscated import".
