Sentences with phrase «stained wretch»

An ink - stained wretch can dream.

He reveled in it simply for the sake of intellectual jousting, whether in the center of American Catholicism at Notre Dame or «educating» some ink - stained wretch from Buffalo hammering out a Sunday column.

Consequently at the first company you had CFOs who had run businesses or went on to run businesses, at the latter you had the proverbial ink stained wretch capable of turning out the best damned budget package in the world and still chained to a 10 key.

We ink - stained wretches could still more of his kind at the barricades in the battle for what remains of journalism and for the democratic promise that can only be realized when the press and the pressmen speak truth to power.

Back in the day, we ink - stained wretches in print media used to call standard pre-packaged images for use in advertising «clip art.»

Like a parent handing a 16 - year - old the keys to the new Bentley, GM executives recently allowed an army of ink - stained wretches to climb behind the wheels of 60 costly concept cars — and then crossed their fingers.

I'll be headed to the press preview on Thursday, but you can take a look before even the ink - stained wretches.

The funniest part of those meetings was not Lester's bloviating, but that he served fine French wines and cheeses to the ink - stained wretches.