Sentences with word «wretch»

The word "wretch" refers to a person who is miserable, unfortunate, or pitiful. Full definition
I personally like the old hymns such as Amazing Grace... who saved wretch like me.
When I was a boy, I used to think that a closet - naturalist must be the vilest type of wretch under the sun.
After all, it's one thing for an ink - stained wretch like yours truly to bang on about the threat of a housing crash.
It is hard for us to lay claim to this amazing grace sometimes, but it does save wretches, like us.
Creation comes about only through destruction, in a universe and plane of existence of seemingly infinite stretches and constantly redefined understandings, the poor wretch who clings to archaic mans reasoning will find himself continually outclassed, out thought and out performed.
Back in the day, we ink - stained wretches in print media used to call standard pre-packaged images for use in advertising «clip art.»
He protested about the fashion in which those who proclaim the gospel often spend most of their time in stimulating an artificial sense of utter failure and sinfulness, so that then those preachers could declare that after all God still cares for such miserable wretches as he has induced his hearers to think themselves to be.
--(It is) to free a slave, And to feed in the day of hunger An orphan near of kin, Or some poor wretch in misery, And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity.
As with most central banks, they have engaged in a game where they increase some aspects of internal credit, and in a way where precious little if any leaks out to the unfavored wretches with no access.
We may express thanks that we are not in the situation of those other miserable wretches, but our thanks are smug and self - congratulatory.
You, however, are a despicable little wretch because you are retarded by choice.
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.
Actor and director who could imbue the many wretches, prigs and braggarts he played with a wrenching humanity
If your dog wretches after eating grass or paws at his mouth, check for lodged grass as a potential cause.»
And a few, like Conrad Black, fire back with caustic ripostes, lambasting their pursuers as unjust wretches or worse.
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.
That night, that year / Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!)
Ruby judges herself to be superior, by more than a grade or two, to everyone there, especially to a poor, unkempt, teenaged wretch seated across from her who is reading a book.
My sins seemed to be laid open; so that I thought that every one I saw knew them, and sometimes I was almost ready to acknowledge many things, which I thought they knew: yea sometimes it seemed to me as if every one was pointing me out as the most guilty wretch upon earth.
This lawsuit is simply petty and spiteful — like the fundamentalist wretches that it represents.
For the recalcitrant, there was death at the hands of the community - commonly by the brutal method of stoning, that is, pelting with rocks until the poor wretch went down under them, and then was finally pounded to death.
life is not fair and occasional wretching (pain) is part of life... and, of course, everything must come to an end!!
Men created thousands of gods... The bibles god makes people feel like unworthy wretches... terrible.
On occasion, baseball fields were laid out more or less side by side where we played, and if the game I was taking part in was not sufficiently interesting, I would turn around and watch another or pass the time with my neighboring exile, a forlorn and uncoordinated wretch who had been banished to the right field of his game.
For what these poor unsuspecting wretches found there amid the din and dimness of the Fabulous Borum was hardly the same game they'd been training for in Beijing and Sydney and Montevideo and all those other hotbeds of roundball.
Actually can't believe you see so few teams as a threat, Spurs are above us * boke / wretch West Ham will pass us if they win, that means we will be 7th and if Chelski and Citeh win, 16 points off the better teams.
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You've probably been warned about what happens when a baby starts «cutting teeth» — Your cuddly bundle of sweetness will quickly turn into a drooling, screaming, feverish wretch who will fray your nerves and demolish hope of ever sleeping again!
Maybe unnecessary if you can quickly chuck em in an outside bin but essential if you live in a flat and would rather not induce wretching bar the brief time when it comes to change the liner.
Tantalus (from which came the English word «tantalize») was the Greek wretch, fated to eternally gawk at choice fruits and sparkling water, but never tasting neither!
In his book he said that when he heard the result of the referendum, he walked out of the office and as he walked into Whitehall started wretching violently.
I think the most hilarious part of her career as a political opportunist was when she recently announced that she is going to write a book that details her heart wretching account of having come out as a lesbian.
I feel like a two - faced wretch in loony - land trying to play nice and pretending to maintain interest in what goes on around me.
My eyebrows shot up on reading correspondence from Jack Wretch on the subject of Morning Chicness bags for expectant mothers...
There is no subtext to the carnage; we hold out no hope that these clueless wretches will learn or grow or stretch beyond the depth of a mug of Lone Star draft.
Though Harry has pegged the last ten minutes of the film correctly, being pure wretch, he has greatly over-rated the rest of the film.
The talky exposition is often tedious, though Leigh's murderous wretch is a treasure of amusing facial expressions.
He's a pathetic, wholly sympathetic wretch, and Serkis» work is extraordinary.
Also, the character of Nick gets a fair amount of screen time and, far from being a dire wretch of a husband (like the husband in «Double Indemnity,» played by Tom Powers), he's affable and kind.
Apparently one of my fellow ink - stained wretches objected, and it was moved back a day, but it still counts as a slap in the face of Ford's hometown auto show.
Meanwhile, yes: «Boycott Indiana businesses and groups that support these small - minded wretches.
DeWitt is my favorite novelist these days, combining the absurdity of Beckett with the droll stylization of Wes Anderson, with the unexpectedly big, innocent heart of some of George Saunders» most lovable wretches.
You have to accept the idea that although we're miserable, grubby, money - seeking wretches, somehow on balance human beings are creating more value than they are destroying.
I agree that these lowlife wretches should be removed from society but the Govt.

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