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Wretchedness in sentence

64 examples of Wretchedness in a sentence

You wake up and as you're emerging into consciousness, you feel this horrible dread, you know, this real wretchedness, and immediately, your mind starts to race.
Your brain is searching to find an explanation for those sensations in your body that you experience as wretchedness, just like you did with the blobby image.
There is something about Doug McLure's appearance in a movie that is a warranty of wretchedness.
Where oh where to begin in describing the comprehensive wretchedness of Neil LaBute's latest attempt at film making?
I saw this cinematic wretchedness in a dollar theater with a friend in 1979 (back when the tickets actually sold for $1).
The video quality is appropriate, however, as it's matched in wretchedness by every other facet of this stink-fest.
By the end of the film, instead of improving, the film takes a nose-dive into wretchedness!
In the book, the monster was quite articulate and we have a better understanding of his wretchedness and his wickedness.
And while I agree it is really bad, I'm not sure it reached the level of wretchedness needed to merit inclusion in the book--but it sure is close enough that I can't fault its mention.
The French, by contrast, faced a future in which “it is difficult to foresee to what pitch of stupid excesses their egotism may lead them,” and “into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves, lest they should have to sacrifice something of their own well-being to the prosperity of their fellow-creatures.”
The main difference is that it has become all too easy “to foresee to what pitch of stupid excesses their egotism may lead them” and “into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves.”
Bad as it sounds, this prospect appears to be a "realistic" compromise between the supposedly utopian vision of a flourishing, unified democracy and the wretchedness of a failed state.
Buried in the clothes she only showed her long face with large features of a heavy beauty, already disfigured at thirty-nine by her life of wretchedness and the seven children she had borne.
She sweated, panted, her joints cracked, but without a complaint, with the indifference of custom, as if it were the common wretchedness of all to live thus bent double.
The lady and gentleman were silent, softly stretched out, and gradually wearied and disquieted by the exhibition of this wretchedness.
As the Company reserved this new experiment for the captains, the workpeople called this corner of the hamlet the settlement of the Bas-de-Soie, just as they called their own settlement Paie-tes-Dettes, in good-humoured irony of their wretchedness.
Madame Hennebeau was already getting tired, happy for a moment to amuse herself in the weariness of her exile by playing the part of exhibiting the beasts, but immediately disgusted by the sickly odour of wretchedness, in spite of the special cleanliness of the houses into which she ventured.
The girls were precocious in the pits; and he recalled the Lille work-girls whom he had waited for behind the factories, those bands of girls, corrupted at fourteen, in the abandonment of their wretchedness.
What wretchedness!
The workers could not hold out; the Revolution had only aggravated their wretchedness; only the bourgeois had grown fat since '89, so greedily that they had not even left the bottom of the plates to lick.
He also felt anxiety for the morrow in face of the ingratitude of these children, who got married one by one leaving their parents in wretchedness.
When you're young you think that happiness will come some time, you hope for things; and then the wretchedness begins always over again, and you get shut up in it.
The eternal wretchedness, beginning over and over again, the brutalizing labour, the fate of a beast who gives his wool and has his throat cut, all the misfortune disappeared, as though swept away by a great flood of sunlight; and beneath the dazzling gleam of fairyland justice descended from heaven.
It was the season of wretchedness beginning once more.
And from the entire settlement there soon arose the same cry of wretchedness.
The women especially would have liked at once to take by assault this ideal city of progress, in which there was to be no more wretchedness.
But Madame Hennebeau was astonished at hearing of the wretchedness of the Montsou colliers.
Both of them, when the moment of action came, in spite of the injustice of their wretchedness fell back on the resignation of their race, trembling before the morrow, preferring still to bend their backs to the yoke.
He described the wretchedness that was common to all of them, the hard toil, the brutal life, the wife and little ones crying from hunger in the house.
The brutal scene was effaced and lost, and he was thrown back on to the sufferings of all, the abominations of wretchedness.
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