Sentences with phrase «wretch who»

You may, like Samuel Johnson, define a patron as «a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery,» but you want to reward attention with something more meaningful than that.

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!

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.

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.

There is obviously no holding back these starving wretches who have simply been awaiting death in some way, whether by famine if the siege continues or by the sword if there is a victorious assault.

«On a Sunday you would be shocked indeed,» she replied, «for then the street is filled with multitudes of the wretches who, released on that day from employment, spend their day in noise and riot.

Not exact matches

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.

--(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.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

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.

I personally like the old hymns such as Amazing Grace... who saved wretch like me.

If you have a trunk, put things in a trunk, if you have an SUV I know people who have tugs in the back of their SUV's and they put things in there and close them up then they can wretch it down, same with strollers if you have those wretched straps you can strap them down in the back.

Actor and director who could imbue the many wretches, prigs and braggarts he played with a wrenching humanity