Sentence examples for wretchedness that from inspiring English sources

For as long as there was Europe there had seemed to be hope that the wretchedness that holds United in its grip might be cast away.

Leaving the prime minister's residence on Sunday, Niki reported, Giorgos Karatzaferis, leader of the Popular Orthodox Rally, said he "will not contribute to the explosion of a revolution due to a wretchedness that will then spread across Europe".

It will be if it has too many lines like these, inspired by a series of small mishaps in the countryside while he and Tom are driving the mystery girl to a new home where they hope she'll be well cared for: "There is no escape from the wretchedness that stalks the earth.

He calls instead for "a far-sighted humanism based on human wretchedness" that would not "have saved us from wars, revolutions and cataclysms – these have never been found wanting … but it would certainly have saved us from wars on a national scale, revolutions on a world scale, from mechanized barbarism, from gas and germ warfare – and from racism".

In 2010, she and Jessica Hynes (seen most recently as the inanity-babbling publicist Siobhan Sharpe in Twenty Twelve) wrote and performed in the pilot episode of Lizzie And Sarah, a tale of marital wretchedness that's often wincingly hard to watch.

A British diplomat who visited Warsaw in January 1919 reported: "I have nowhere seen anything like the evidences of extreme poverty and wretchedness that meet one's eye at almost every turn".

For the majority of the prostitutes portrayed, however, the paintings romanticised the wretchedness of the circumstances that drove poorly paid women to sell their bodies, turning their misery into a celebration of art and personal talent.

But anyone who travels knows that wretchedness on a plane is only a matter of degree and never confined to a single passenger.

It is partly because Albee follows an ancient rule of tragedy defined by Boethius as "a story of prosperity that endeth in wretchedness".

Epic in scale and thorough in detail (the screenplay was based on extensive research by Ms. Bosch and the Holocaust historian Serge Klarsfeld), the film includes crowd scenes that heave with unforced wretchedness.

Instead, we've gone for both the absolute legends of gaming wretchedness and, more controversially, the titles that promised the moon on a stick, but cruelly delivered a deflated football on a rusty metal shard – which then gave you tetanus.