| 单词 | wretched |
| 例句 | I had to hold the wretched thing with both hands; I still remember how cold the hilt felt. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He derived a passionate pleasure through the gambling away and squandering of wretched money. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z You ’re the one with the wretched heart. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I have made a most wretched discovery,” said he, after a short pause.— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The food is wretched, and so are we. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I was about to settle down to a warm fire and a roast fowl, and that wretched singer had to open his mouth, he thought mournfully. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was terrible in the cellar, all night long, all the cold, damp night long with the rats and lizards and bugs and wretched smells. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The wretched woman dropped him a fluttering curtsey, with one hand clutching at her breast and scuttled past him for the stain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They were wretched, flimsy things, but cooking pots of any kind were always difficult to get. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you bring the broadside over to Number Three tonight and we’ll slog through that wretched thing together.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They made her feel safe and wretched at the same time, so she kept her eyes down and hummed, and tried to forget they were there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Just this, a ruined town, a dead baby, a few wretched women. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I napped until four, still in a daze because of those wretched peas. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z His eyes, filled with anger and disgust, were fixed on the wretched creature as he now began to move again, still whispering and hissing to himself. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Amelia would know what turp—turpitune, turpentine, whatever the wretched word was—Amelia was sure to know what it meant. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Till this moment, I had been so intent on watching them, their appearance and conversation had excited in me so keen an interest, I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z This time, visions of a firestorm—really, the land of the goblins is clearly an endlessly wretched place, and they must be awful creatures to want to live there. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The wretched Tereus too was changed into a bird, an ugly bird with a huge beak, said sometimes to be a hawk. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen different plans went through his head, all wretched ones, and at last he fixed on the worst plan of all. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He watched Baba's body rise from the dirt, mouth open in a silent scream as a creature stalked forward, a being with wretched black eyes and blood dripping from its maw. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The one thing that made it bearable was that Granddaddy took pity on my wretched state and brought me one of his books, Fascinating Flora and Fauna of the Antipodes. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Why was she spending so much time chipping away at the wretched boat when she could burn a hole into it? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the Argonauts had beached their boat for the night lived a lonely and wretched old man, to whom Apollo, the truth-teller, had given the gift of prophecy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sobbing had let up a bit, or seemed to have, but her body was in the same wretched, prostrate, face-down position. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Rows of wretched souls sat hunched on wooden benches. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Colin stood at the bottom of the staircase, staring at her balefully, his sad countenance seemingly a manifestation of Ophie’s own wretched feelings. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Does this mean we have to go the whole wretched way on foot again?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My father said he had never seen a more wretched creature. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z At the gate to Tres Marias there was a group of wretched people waiting with anxious eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes and rubbed his temples, willing his father’s voice to go away, willing the wretched memories to go away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But there’s a waft of warm, wretched air coming off that toilet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Between meals, if his mother did not stand guard, he was constantly pilfering at the wretched store of food on the shelf. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Not Gwystyl! Why, he wouldn’t have done the least thing for us—until Doli threatened to squeeze him! Gwystyl! All he wanted was to be let alone and hide in his wretched burrow!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z And why did only Harry and I have to suffer through this wretched weekly imposition of culture? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Go back there? Oh, no. It’s a long way, Fiver, and what would be the good? The risk, and this fearful heat, and you’d only make yourself wretched.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, I remember that when I got into my little bedroom, I was truly wretched, and had a strong conviction on me that I should never like Joe’s trade. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The Silvers don’t bat an eye at any of it, complaining about the “wretched conditions.” Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z “He cried when he saw how Gawaine was spared. It made him remember things, and be became so wretched that he was ill.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Be that as it may, she saw him go with regret; and in this early example of what Lydia’s infamy must produce, found additional anguish as she reflected on that wretched business. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “There is no act more wretched than stealing, Amir,” Baba said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had exchanged them for the most wretched things, for the transitory, for the pleasures of the senses, for high living and riches. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw. What have you gotten yourself into, you wretched sop?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Every ounce of the noble courage he’d felt, the will to make a difference, the promise to himself to reunite Chuck with his family—it all vanished into an exhausted fog of hopeless, wretched weariness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I hope so, because I’m not going to be able to share those wretched moments with you right now. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z There is no act more wretched than stealing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He went to visit them in their wretched huts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They vowed to heal the sick, care for the injured, and give aid to the wretched and impoverished. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Another fellow told me our food was so wretched that he had to flee before it made him sick, so I had his foot cut off, roasted it up, and fed it to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He himself, Sinon told Priam, was the wretched victim chosen to be sacrificed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved along the track, skirting the wretched shanties and the pools of sewage, and watching the never-ending stream of ghosts arriving and passing without hindrance into the town itself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z "I was just talking to myself!" cried the wretched witch. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z A wretched feeling of being tom engulfed me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Closer to the truth, I was in such a state of wretched disorder, I did not want to think. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There’s only me looking into the wretched eyes of the man from the Nut who asks for one reason. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!” said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was not about Rachel that Mr. Marsden wished to speak, it was about the wretched Irish girl. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The wretched rabbits, obeying his orders, were met by Silver and Buckthorn at a point where the run opened out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the blade a quick twist and then withdrew it again before the wretched boy had had time to disentangle his head from the towel. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z To overcome the difficulty of getting past that monosyllable, I took it from her, and said, repeating it with emphasis, “Well! Then, that is why it makes me wretched.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z His face was white, and his eyes strained and wretched with that dark lost look they had had when I first met him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I looked at my father’s wretched face, and I knew that he would honor my wishes no matter what I decided. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The rocking of the deck beneath his feet made his stomach heave, and the wretched food tasted even worse when retched back up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Naturally, the wretched boy dirtied his pants, which caused a storm later on upstairs with the Matron. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Darling, could you close those wretched curtains? The light is intolerable.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora slunk over to Hob, where they banished the wretched. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “When my eyes were opened to his real character—Oh! had I known what I ought, what I dared to do! But I knew not—I was afraid of doing too much. Wretched, wretched mistake!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z I would have to seek advice from Harry, although my estimation of him as a counselor in affairs of the heart had received a substantial drubbing at the hands of the wretched Miss Minerva Goodacre. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The morning after they landed, Aeneas with his friend, the faithful Achates, left his wretched shipwrecked followers to try to find out what part of the world they were in. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The wretched girl blushed and held her tongue, while Lancelot could be seen throwing his reins to the terrified carter, and storming up the drawbridge, shouting at the top of his voice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They sought to make themselves conform ever more perfectly to God’s will, whereas outside I had seen mostly men who sought to make God’s will conform to their wretched prejudices. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is this girl’s fire that will keep you safe as you face the last of the malevolent trinity—the wretched chupacabras.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I could see the apology written there, the wretched guilt, and was surprised to find my heart could break even that bit more. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched, and I believe that his early losses endowed him with great humanity and sympathy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I was mistaken; tonight I found new ones, worse ones. I am the most wretched of creatures. Say you wouldn’t mind it if I killed myself so I could end this existence.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Thundering toads,” Jennet would say, “I am but a poor woman with this wretched inn and a blind man to care for. I am sure God does not begrudge me my little economies.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The wretched thing—and the thing she never dared talk about—was that in order to exploit the humans’ fears, she’d had to dwell in them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His job was to make our lives as wretched as possible, and he pursued that goal with great enthusiasm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This wretched place had been pushing Toby away for years, but now that there was someone else to think about, Toby found himself actually listening. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The whole thing had been so wretched and awkward for Beatrice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I said to Herbert, meanwhile, that even if Provis were recognised and taken, in spite of himself, I should be wretched as the cause, however innocently. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The wretched rat soldier lay shaking on the churchyard path. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “To curry your lord father’s favor, I don’t doubt. I know how that game is played. How old is this wretched girl child?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As ever, Lord Ghael was the first to present himself, looking even more wretched than usual. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Vole family taken captive; death or slavery was all the wretched creatures could look forward to. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I was jolly well tempted to tell him it's those wretched Frenchmen. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The gateman was impressed with all he saw and he said to Wang Lung, “Do you sit within my wretched room while I announce your woman and son within.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z As the wretched pair passed by the company they came to the hobbits, and Saruman stopped and stared at them; but they looked at him with pity. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But they managed it at last, and then everybody gathered around the wretched Centipede and began arguing about the best way to get the paint off his body. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z He chose a satin tunic striped black and gold and a fine leather jerkin with silver studs . . . and only then remembered that his wretched sister put more stock in blades than beauty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Gay held cold washcloths to my forehead while I wretched. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “On Yulemas? I couldn’t think of sending her back to that wretched place!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “But the fact remains—they have that wretched pot and we don’t. They’re there and we’re here, and it looks very much as though it will stay that way.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She sipped her chocolatl, which was thin and weak; how like these wretched priests, she thought, to take their self-righteous abstinence out on their visitors, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The wretched square looks about his closed house and sees no one. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All he could do was again to sit wretched and helpless on the shore, but this time not trying in fury to kill people, only singing mournful love songs to soften the sea nymph’s heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was no way he’d go back to that wretched orphanage. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z They could be free of this wretched unending brightness, and they’d never have to think of it again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Deoch said you were caught in a fire or something. Told me you looked positively wretched.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Capitol viewers will be glued to their sets so they don’t miss one wretched word. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But whereas the wretched Io had to pay dearly for the distinction, Europa was exceedingly fortunate. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s doing an ad for keeping your wretched school open!” fumed Mr. Huxley. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Ah. That wretched tiger! It seems to be all anyone can talk about. Last night at Drusilla’s party everyone was describing...” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “It is true—it is true,” wept the wretched woman. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z These unprovable suspicions, Jackson’s detainment in the laundry, Pierrot’s wretched delivery and the morning’s colossal heat were oppressive to Briony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z ‘I am no good after all. There is not enough of the breed of Bandobras the Bullroarer in me: these howls freeze my blood. I don’t ever remember feeling so wretched.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I felt better when I had taken my hat off, and my wretched little fur, and thrown them both beside my gloves and my bag on to the window seat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I was neither physically nor mentally prepared to deal with bathing the wretched odor of dead coyote atoms from Laika’s oily fur so early in the teenage day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z So many of those souls were lost and wretched, Billy believed, because they could not see as well as his little green friends on Tralfamadore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And she poured out to him all the love no one had wanted from her through the wretched years:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur, whose corner of the triangle was the least fortunate from a personal point of view, was not entirely wretched. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He took solace in the fact that others, if they ever heard of the wretched accidents, might well assume that it was some other Henry Smith standing by when disaster struck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I was wretched looking, damp from rain and dust-covered and squatting in a mound of debris. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z A big station clock rattles off a relentless advance of seconds, and Marie-Laure sits beside her great-uncle and listens to the wasted and wretched shamble off the trains. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It had lured him out of his old, wretched life, but it seemed that Dustfinger didn't like it anymore, he didn't know why—and Dustfinger had told him to keep watch on the prisoners. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Isn’t this wretched,” said Francis as soon as we were alone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z No one was even sure John could survive the wretched Highway 3 to reach Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Harriet Blaine wrote her daughter of the dilemma: "Poor dear Gaffy, how wretched it is! Wounded and sore and hurt to the death, he now to save his life, must dare to lose it." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The big man gave a wretched moan and stopped feeling around with his hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At the sight of him sitting fearfully on the sofa, tiny and wretched as a sick old man, she understood that she could expect no help. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If Matt thought he’d been bored before, it was nothing compared to writing the same letters, coloring the same pictures, and counting the same wretched beads and flowers all over again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking her hatchet and running through the swamp as her wretched mother had done. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The pond is the best place to wallow in my wretched state. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z There was still time to get back downstairs, to get out of this wretched place. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I simply refuse to do that wretched math every day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Agave was the most wretched of all mothers, driven mad by Dionysus so that she believed her son Pentheus was a lion and killed him with her own hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘That means,’ said Sophie, ‘that somewhere in the world, every single night, nine wretched people get carried away and eaten alive.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dear, wretched Frank, who had not understood, who had always thought we were the normal happy married couple we pretended to be. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Tortured and sent off to be used as a lab specimen—dear God. That lovely, clever girl. I may as well—I am wretched. No, you’ll not hang.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But that was what wretched Malvolio thought, whose part he had played once on the college lawn—“Nothing that can be can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The wretched singer had come along with them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was wretched, but it might have helped. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Under the bones lurked a ruined and wretched creature with cracked brown teeth and a yellow tinge to the whites of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As the sun approached its zenith, and the park bustled with midday traffic, the heat transformed the hidey-hole into a wretched furnace. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They joked and they picked fast when the bosses’ eyes were on them and they acted big, but at night in the cabin after midnight they wept, they screamed from nightmares and wretched memories. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He’d served nine months in prison, and the few people who visited him said he looked wretched. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She thought she had heard Betsy again—that wretched hacking sound that sawed through her rib cage straight into her heart. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “It’s probably for the best. We still have fifteen minutes of that wretched movie left to endure in Biology — I don’t think I could take any more.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower! Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It was essential that they got as far from those wretched spiders and their wretched webs as possible. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Now Billy sat up, too—wretched, close to tears. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As March continued, the weather turned to rain and then to snow, and the men crawled into their damp sleeping bags in complete, wretched misery. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z No princes had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast-growing spurge. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Why would he build such a wretched thing?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Exhausted, soaking wet and dispirited, he curled up into a wretched damp ball and slept. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The wretched insects sucked life from him faster than he could replenish it. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Now they had wandered off—one might almost say inconsiderately— and left him with his wretched brachet to get rusty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, although he had passed several adventures in between, he was still thinking of the lady’s advice and feeling wretched. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But he sees firsthand how they can be so loosely allied as to be basically ineffectual—they are wretched and filthy; they live in holes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was nothing brave or fine about it, it was a wretched tribute to convention. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I have the hardest time trying to maintain a normal facade when I’m feeling so wretched and sad. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Worse yet, men would assault the women trying to make a bit of money, leaving them “poor, wretched, and helpless.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But deep in his heart there was something that restrained him; he could not strike this thing lying in the dust, forlorn, ruinous, utterly wretched. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Why did you rob me of my last consolation? I relied on your innocence, and although I was then very wretched, I was not so miserable as I am now.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl Aegisthus disdained to kill; he only made her utterly wretched in every way possible until her whole life was concentrated in one hope, that Orestes would come back and avenge their father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll not forget all your help, wretched cat,” I muttered as I knelt in the squash patch. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as the wretched Goodacre was well out of our lives, some degree of pining and sighing might be indulged in strictly as a romantic exercise. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She had more time to herself and more time to worry, more time to plan a wretched new life. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The consequence of all that ice was a wretched Thanksgiving of tiny tough birds, heavy pork cakes, and pithy sweet potatoes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There was a pale moon that allowed me to make out in the distance the outlines of a wretched slum, with houses made of cardboard, planks, and corrugated metal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing accidental about a wretched road, or an overcrowded tap-tap with bad brakes, or the desperation of peasant women needing to sell something at market in order to feed their families that night. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And as if their wretched Rally and their wretched Olympic Games weren't enough, do you know what they've got his lordship working on now? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Most wretched waifs”—plop!—“in your circumstances would be sent away— Ouch!Percy, beloved, why are you kicking me? Have you mistaken me for a chair leg?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Somehow Osha and the wretched boys were eluding him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He took the wretched ball away from her with a gesture which was almost rough. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His father had forsaken him, his uncles, his sister, even that wretched creature Reek. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Undoubtedly older heads than this boy’s had egged him on to this wretched, scurvy trick, but Mr. Lyte had no wish to go into the matter beyond the recovery of his own property. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Crow’s Eye gave him to me, wretched creature that he is.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Ignore that wretched beggar bird, Jon, it's just had half my bacon." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Did that wretched sign bring you? Because we’re not in the mood to design anything. Especially not for random people who haven’t made an appointment. Besides, the inspiration to create just isn’t there, is it?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "Save me!" cried the wretched witch in the front row. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z That wretched woman beat Ruth, I just knew it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” Henry says, sounding wretched, but there’s a bitter defiance rising in him too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I could tell that Mother was relieved that the wretched Goodacre had gone. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z "Then kill it, Pellinore. Kill the wretched creature” "Oh, really,” said the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But while he was doing this, the wretched boy was being sucked closer and closer toward the mouth of one of the great pipes that was dangling down into the river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I could have sworn that just a few seconds ago I was twenty-three, and now here I am in this wretched, desiccated body. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They tried Polish on Billy Pilgrim first, since he was dressed so clownishly, since the wretched Poles were the involuntary clowns of the Second World War. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please,” he added, lowering his voice, for the wretched Gwystyl had begun to shake violently, his eyes turning up as though he were about to have a fit. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “No,” I said, “I don’t do anything like that. I’m fond of walking,” I added, as a wretched anti-climax. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His wretched uncle had a whole crew of muscled bullies he hired to collect money from people who owed him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Quite wretched, I should say, and sick with longing for their lost child. They made a terrible mistake and will always regret it. When I told them you were safe, your parents’ relief overwhelmed them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z For one hungry, wretched German soldier come five of the enemy, fresh and fit. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Mining has of course always been a wretched line of work everywhere, but nowhere more so than in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Put out that wretched light!” he shouted, hurling the boot up at the ceiling. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The old hag looked so wretched and smelled so foul. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I rubbed a little rouge on my cheeks in a wretched attempt to give myself colour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “What Ambrose says makes sense. Would you lift the wretched creature up and carry him to the sick bay, please?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They have killed her father in those wretched mines. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His plans, his hopes, everything he’d spent years working for was gone because of that wretched creature. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Red Army had held the invasion back from the Soviet capital, but it was the wretched Russian winter that really turned the tables. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “So unfortunate that wretched ship going ashore there,” said Colonel Julyan, “but for that the whole matter would have rested in peace.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But pity stayed him, and though he kept the ring, in which his only hope lay, he would not use it to help him kill the wretched creature at a disadvantage. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Look upon Thy miraculous gift. This wretched boy has given the world a smile!” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I would have to give myself something to do, in order not to be too bored and find myself among all the wretched unsaved of the Avenue. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Celaena awoke the next morning to the wretched booming of the clock tower. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He isn’t religious, scoffs at Jesus Christ and takes the Lord’s name in vain, and though I’m not Orthodox either, it hurts me every time to see him so lonely, so scornful, so wretched. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z For one thing, Arthur began to assert his position in their wretched triangle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now that wretched fellow will haunt me in my dreams, and every time I hear something rustling out in my garden at night I will feel his knife at my throat.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The moon hid behind the clouds, unable to stomach the wretched scene. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter's head and pieces flew all over the platform. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Nobody wanted to go down and do this because the moment a giant was freed, he would be sure to turn on the wretched person who had freed him and gobble him up. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Or if they had a job, the children in daycare or left with some brutal ignorant woman, and they’d have to pay for that themselves, out of their wretched little paychecks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z However, no municipal works projects—such as putting in a sewer system to eliminate the polluted “sinks”—were initiated to change the wretched conditions. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The next few minutes were wretched ones indeed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I considered; my life was so wretched, it must be changed, or I must die. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We entered the Experimental Chambers to find the wretched Family of Smiths with their Laundry hung over their Sticks of Furniture. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He was filled with sheer anger over the wretched care he was getting, even though he couldn't imagine anything for which he might have an appetite. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Who could believe he would ever need his wretched tattoo? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Lancelot,” said the King, finding him one afternoon in file rose garden, "you have been looking wretched lately. Is there anything the matter?" The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z An absolutely certain way in those days to draw down on one a wretched fate was to claim superiority in anything over any deity; nevertheless people were perpetually doing so. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But then the earring’s spell must have broken, because Cecilia, looking as old and wretched as her house, hobbled out of her shack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I lived at number twenty-three Blenheim Road for five years, blissfully happy and utterly wretched. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few days of the funeral, Cleopatra, wretched with sorrow, fell ill from an infection brought on by the injuries she had inflicted on herself. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Treebeard looked at him in his long slow way for several minutes, till the wretched man was squirming on the floor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "That stripling . . . wretched boy . . . not speak that name to me, your duty . . . your mother, she would , . ." Lord Hoster cried as a spasm of pain washed over him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sound of my name on his lips makes my stomach flip, and 1 feel wretched. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will never be the same! Oh, it is the fault of that beastly Crochan! The wretched thing struck at me deliberately, I’m sure!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Then she went over to where the wretched Tweedie lay and very carefully she dropped these little soap-flakes into his open mouth. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They were living in such wretched conditions that he wrote an article about the deplorable situation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z So at least someone can see through her wretched fantasies. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Alas, my wretched brother, torn from me so quickly'. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There had been a wife once, long, long ago, beautiful and wretched. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Her wretched dog nipped at my shoe under the table. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed the jungle’s very essence had sought him out, a living nightmare purged from its most wretched depths. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘Nothing?’ said Faramir, looking at the wretched creature with a keen glance, but without any expression in his face either of anger, or pity, or wonder. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Lazlo slid from Rasalas’s back and stood before her, and if her despair was grim before that surge of joy, how wretched it was after. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Surely she didn’t approve of this wretched boy? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Soon the monsters were gone and only the pitiful, wretched form of their friend lay on the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “My wife is traumatized, Baaz. We're never setting foot in this wretched place again. To think we even considered supporting it...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “She most of all,” said Ernest, “requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched. But since the murderer has been discovered—” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the witch stalks the wretched child like a hunter stalking a little bird in the forest. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z "To hear is to obey," moaned the wretched man. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z None of them got such a wretched job as hers. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We’ve watched Macbeth change from a noble, trusted, dedicated soldier, willing to sacrifice his life for king and country, to a wretched, depraved, corrupt murderer who no longer has feelings of guilt or morality. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His avid sons thereafter dividing up the property by lot gave me a wretched portion, a poor house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggie heard him cursing the thorns, the prickles, the darkness, and the wretched riffraff he was having to stumble after in the middle of the night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Then at last he left the tent in which he had sat so long, and went down to where the Greeks were gathered, a wretched company, Diomedes grievously wounded, Odysseus, Agamemnon, and many another. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Our eyes were sunk into our heads, our ears stuck out like donkey ears, and we must have smelled wretched, though of course we’d all been long accustomed to our stench. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z What do I care for the wretched lawn? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Inside its jar, shrunken into a fetal position, wrapped in tatters, and accompanied by its wretched necklaces of teeth and a handful of rag dolls, the mummy looked like the pit of some exotic fruit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Death by drowning had to be better than letting some wretched slaver gut her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They were the despised and rejected, the wretched and the spat upon, the earth’s offscouring; and he was in their company, and they would swallow up his soul. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z What pride they had in Odessa came from their very survival in a place they openly admitted was physically wretched. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Aphrodite was back of this wretched and ominous state of affairs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His mom paused, and he could just feel her wretched pity. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z But it’s my own fault, too: like 30 percent of my fellow Americans, my sleep habits are fairly wretched. 4 ways to get a better night’s sleep 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But he has blown his chance to take a swing at Hollywood’s most disheartening era of wretched excess. Books of The Times: ‘Moneywood,’ by William Stadiem 2012-12-24T21:52:46Z It’s a glimpse of another culture in the totally counterproductive form of confusingly wretched comedy, broken up by moments of instructive domestic tension. Movie Review: ‘One Candle, Two Candles ...,’ About Forced Marriage 2014-02-20T22:24:11Z Many use the term “Resist!” write comments on these pages--sitting behind a computer in the safety of our homes-“Maybe someone will DO something about this wretched excuse who occupies the White House?!” Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z At least when Nicole Kidman makes a film as wretched as Grace of Monaco, she has a good 10 or 15 stunning performances behind her that can serve as an inbuilt rebuttal. Angelina Jolie springs back to life from a career slumber in Maleficent 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z "I don't want anything to do with those wretched creatures once again." Gorillaz and Alan Moore fall out over opera 2010-06-15T09:07:00Z The Night’s Watch are the wretched refuse of Westeros, sent to the end of the world generation after generation to defend a thankless realm against White Walkers. RECAP: Game of Thrones Watch: Fee Fi Fo Fum! 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z His 2009 novel, “How I Became a Famous Novelist,” includes some of the best examples of deliberately wretched writing that you’d ever want to see. In ‘The Wonder Trail,’ Steve Hely Takes a Comedic Detour 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z For centuries Indians born into wretched circumstances have accepted their lot as karma—punishment for misdeeds in past lives. We’re not gonna take it 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Then it felt that April had been stolen from me.I was once heartbroken in April, wretched, torn apart. What the months of the year mean to me 2010-12-17T08:30:00Z The house is riddled with this wretched history. ‘Sisters’ Builds a Gothic Plot to an Artful and Shocking Climax 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z It looks like Serkis has easily slipped back into the wretched creature's slimy skin, but Jackson stops short of giving us a proper look at Freeman in action as Bilbo Baggins. The Hobbit: Peter Jackson's latest clip reveals more questions than clues 2011-07-21T13:41:59Z And far too much attention is taken by the wretched Jester, a character fecklessly added to “Swan Lake” by the Soviets. Dance Review: A ?Swan? Of Complex Shades 2011-02-14T05:15:08Z Moriarty didn’t put this book together to send everyone home as unfulfilled and wretched as they started. Sinister Doings at a Luxury Spa? Must Be a New Liane Moriarty Novel 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z She lives in a wretched shack on the outskirts of town: the eerie modernised wasteland that captured the imagination of both Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. All Federico Fellini's films – ranked! 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z “Adichie is uncloaked, full of ‘wretched, roaring rage,’ teaching us within the space of this work how to gather our disparate selves and navigate the still-raging pandemic,” Sarah M. Broom writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Army, served in Vietnam and returned an invalid, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a wretched 13-year slog until his death in 1980. Gloria Estefan left Cuba as a young child, but the island defines her, and her music 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The show is so good — yet so poignantly final — that it leaves you feeling both euphoric and wretched. Review | Artist Noah Davis died tragically at age 32. A New York show reveals a great lost talent. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z This timely , led by former Heat editor Sam Delaney, ponders this fascination and explains the practical consequences for the players in this wretched industry – ravenous paparazzi, devious journalists, and their increasingly paranoid and litigious quarry. TV highlights 30/08/2011: The Great British Bake Off 2011-08-29T22:00:00Z The bit where the wretched Rosetta tries to gas herself and her mother and the gas runs out and at the end where she grasses up a workmate. 'Absolutely kills me': you pick your saddest movie scenes 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z It begins with a wretched emblem of the new, global India: vultures dying from eating the carcasses of cows drugged to increase milk production. ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ is one of the best new audiobooks of the month 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But while he didn’t suffer the financial woes and chaos that often plague artistic careers, what he described as his “wretched, uneasy and violent brain” led him to write melancholy, tortured music. Music Review: Saint-Sa?ns and Chausson on Lincoln Center Program 2012-05-21T04:03:04Z Kinked timelines have become a wretched cliché, but here the jumbled chronology expresses the associative flow of memory, how one face evokes another and one touch summons up a lost world. ‘Great Freedom’ Review: Unbroken 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z This is not to say the movie isn’t flawed, but aside from the wretched Joker scenes, the rest of the film itself is actually pretty entertaining. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Illustration: Neal Fox for the guardian If there is a country in the entire world in which childhood is a more wretched experience then I do not know it. Digested read: Spoilt rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple 2010-08-30T21:29:00Z Which is why this wretched thing might be good for you. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sorry, but you can’t turn a bad match into a good marriage 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The work finds her tunneling into the past, determined to marry what was with what is; wretched loss and the abundance that remains. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps because it lets you safely explore wretched realities of the human condition. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “In order to halt this wretched cycle we must not think of reform — we must think of transformation,” Butler writes. Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z What does the phrase mean, apart from a wretched violation of the English language in a way that makes a good argument for corporal punishment? Clean eating: yet another pious diet to squeeze the joy out of good food 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z For many of that city's most wretched residents – struck with leprosy, malnutrition or abject poverty – "the worst thing in the world" is a daily occurrence. Summer readings: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 2011-08-06T08:00:02Z But they do set up a feminist theme: the heroine’s struggle to free herself from the bondage of her wretched uncle and the male-dominated state. ‘Red Sparrow’ Review: Flightless Bird 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z When he drank tea made by his wife, he would say, “Oh, how wretched I am.” Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z He’s later punished by being assigned the force’s most wretched jalopy, a heap that literally falls apart on the road — rendering him helpless to aid the injured Anibal. ‘Highway Patrolman’ Bends the Thin Blue Line 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Nearly two centuries ago, James Madison warned: “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form of government can render us secure.” Cut Trump supporters off: The horror of migrant kids taken from parents demands personal action 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Happily, the wretched tyranny of chrome and pine that must define, it seems, all modern "heritage" centres is absent here. Scottish town that changed the world fights for its rights 2013-03-31T00:06:09Z It was an extended family of riffs, played over the new drummer Aaron Hill’s weaving, swinging drum patterns, and under the singer Mike IX Williams’s wretched howl and crinkly-eyed, mirthless smile. Eyehategod Maintains Hopelessness and Rage in Lyrics 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z She details the wretched behavior of those uncles, all sons of the famously mad King George III, who gradually cleared a path for her. Review: ‘Victoria the Queen’ Delves Into Her Epic Reign 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Still, Mr. Aitken’s Edgar is among the more compelling presences, particularly as the gibbering, wretched Tom. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z These devices even creep into news bulletins: some wretched reporter suddenly emerges from behind a car or tree and walks towards the camera. Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation 2013-06-15T16:45:00Z He keeps the repartee nicely outrageous, the excess wretched and the details wickedly delectable. Books of The Times: Kevin Kwan’s ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Depicts a Cult of Opulence 2013-06-30T21:39:42Z After eight wretched years, the boy managed to escape to his original community. Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker's New Role: Fighting For Africa's Child Soldiers 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z Already 44, Margo knows the skids are greased with despair in the theater, and she pours all her private desperation into this wretched play. Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “Bad Tales” concerns the wretched, sometimes comical, occasionally tender interactions of a group of families in an exurban development on the outskirts of Rome. ‘Bad Tales’ Review: Suburban Dysfunction, Italian Style 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z And anyway I often lost the wretched thing long before I got anywhere near a shop. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z For most of history, a cleft has guaranteed a wretched existence – or indeed no existence at all, since one common way of dealing with clefts has been to murder those born with them. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z On one typically wretched night he talks to himself aloud, saying, “Kurt Wallander is lying in his bed, thinking of death.” Books of The Times: Detective Meets His End, Sort Of 2011-03-27T22:37:55Z I will never suggest that you allow your daughter to be wretched to everyone in the house. Why is my otherwise polite 8-year-old so rude at home? 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z In one way, I hope the wretched organisation will vanish entirely. 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z But “Diana” tries on all of the above, as if rummaging desperately through Diana’s voluminous wardrobe, only to emerge looking wretched. Review | In time for Thanksgiving, Broadway serves up a turkey: ‘Diana’ the musical 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Finally Melissa McCarthy was left off for her work on the wretched Mike & Molly. Emmy nominations enter the internet age as Netflix bests broadcast networks 2013-07-18T16:41:34Z All those wretched Burne-Jones pictures, all those works illustrating method, all those old mills and Kentish hop gardens. Tate Britain's Watercolour: Awash with inspiration 2011-02-14T21:31:01Z You’ve probably read about wretched examples of retsina, the traditional Greek wine flavored with pine resin. 20 Wines for Under $20: Weeknight Pleasures for Relaxed Evenings 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Class was at the heart of The Secret History of Our Streets, a dispiriting tale of how town planners transformed a happy, booming south London community into a wretched one. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z Their children’s Barbies are featured in “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,” where colonists on Mars escape their wretched existence with reality-altering drugs and Perky Pat dolls. Anne R. Dick, Memoirist and Writer’s Muse, Is Dead at 90 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z At the far end of the concourse, there was a wretched station bar, a place of stained carpet and beer-sticky counters. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Still, the years were not as bad as 2012, when the weather was so wretched virtually no wine was made at all. Great Bubbly From England, Believe It or Not 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Babies arrived this week on the premiere of the Fox series “The Mindy Project,” about a young obstetrician, and on the wretched TLC reality show “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” Television Review: ‘Call the Midwife,’ a BBC Series, Comes to PBS 2012-09-29T01:32:04Z I felt wretched, horrible, I was the worst person in the world, really beating myself up. At Home With Wendy Burden: A Vanderbilt Descendant Laughs Off Dysfunction 2010-03-24T22:45:00Z No matter how wretched the song’s mood — or how generous, as in “You Inspire Me” and “Long Limbed Girl” — Mr. Lowe sang carefully, borrowing Nat King Cole’s nearly conversational control and ’s sweet melodic curlicues. Music Review: Once Cruel to Be Kind, Now Soft to Be True 2010-10-22T23:39:00Z "We pray for her and that the cure for this wretched disease will be close at hand soon." Actor Pierce Brosnan's daughter dies of ovarian cancer 2013-07-02T12:35:04Z That was just a few days before his own wretched and lonely death, near the edge of the Bangweulu swamp in present-day Zambia. Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal - review 2011-08-26T21:55:02Z And last month, Andrew Jackson was toppled by Harriet Tubman off the front of the $20 bill; supporters of the swap cited, among other reasons, Jackson’s wretched treatment of American Indians. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Inspired by a true story, a black woman's suicide forces a white train-driver to look at the wretched lives of the black underclass. Athol Fugard berates dramatists for failing to confront injustice 2010-08-30T14:59:00Z For Rosamilia, music was an escape from a wretched experience at a private high school, which he began the summer after his father left home. The Gaslight Anthem: 'Fans look up to us. That's creepy' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z It’s a drama that takes the wretched New Jersey caricature created by trashy shows like “Jersey Shore” and uses it as a force for good, or at least for reasonably good courtroom tales. | 'Made in Jersey': ‘Made in Jersey,’ With Janet Montgomery 2012-09-27T21:46:10Z “When in doubt, you go to your best little black dress, not to your wimpy, seaweedy, outre-mer sea foam or your wretched yellow lemon drop.” Op-Ed Columnist: It Goes With Everything, Even Bad Hair 2012-10-01T03:01:10Z You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy ... Sky leaders' debate spin room: the live abortion of democracy 2010-04-22T22:28:00Z Seated on the old wretched wooden chairs of off-Broadway and in the narrow rows of Broadway theaters seemingly designed for economy on a budget airline, I felt home again. Perspective | I wondered what it would be like to be vaccinated and back in a theater. My panic lifted as soon as the lights went down. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z But not all parents are made wretched by their offspring. Studied: Older Parents Find More Joy in Their Bundles 2011-04-07T23:00:35Z The implied blasphemy of Caravaggio's grubby, low-life Christs excited the iconoclast in the Italian film-maker, whose wretched death was somehow foreshadowed in his own work. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z Many New Yorkers believed then, as some do today, that “wretched conditions would ward off freeloaders and keep taxes low.” The 20 Years That Made New York City 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Just when things seem to be going all right for young Edgar, someone coughs up blood, or someone else goes insane, and there he is, wretched again. ‘Nevermore,’ a Musical Biography of Edgar Allan Poe 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Even before 9/11, Tony Blair was ready to tend, with military means if necessary, to, as he put it, "the starving, the wretched, the dispossessed, the ignorant" around the world. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z Doggedly hoping the movie would scale the heights of wretched excess, I found that it wussed out on divine delirium; it lacked the courage of its basest pop-cultural convictions. Sucker Punch Review: Don't Drink the Kool-Aid 2011-03-25T11:45:00Z As a wretched people pleaser, can I cull some stragglers? 'We tenderly drop the vibrator into the bin': how I Marie Kondo'd my whole life 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Homophobia, like a wretched companion, followed me through my school years. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z A rapper he knew had a gig there later in the evening, and we were hitting the road early to escape the snarls of greater Jakarta’s notoriously wretched traffic. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “She wants no part of Cuba,” Garcia writes of this young woman, “no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all.” 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Each time it vexed me a little, partly because of the wretched excess when others go hungry, but mostly on cost-benefit analysis. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Yes, my $450 dinner was worth every penny 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z On the other side, the mass of the people led wretched lives, and short ones, worked to death in the cramped, disease-ridden, filthy new industrial cities. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z I like to think the bartenders who perfected this deliciously wicked sipper during America's wretched dry years wouldn't want us icing it down either — and not just for potency. The unfailing elegance of a French 75 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The noise above was tremendous because of the anti-aircraft guns trying to shoot down these wretched flying bombs, interspersed, of course, with the noise as they landed. P.D. James channels Austen in new murder mystery 2011-12-22T21:04:04Z Our guide, Adichie, is uncloaked, full of “wretched, roaring rage,” teaching us within the space of this work how to gather our disparate selves and navigate the still-raging pandemic. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘My Madness Will Now Bare Itself’ 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z The title character of “EO” — a shocking and tender tour de force about life, love, death and the wretched disregard human beings hold toward other living creatures — stands roughly four feet tall. ‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Returning to India, she briefly worked as a photojournalist, but found that foreign editors craved either an exotic India, or images of wretched poverty. Dayanita Singh’s Hands-On Photography 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Dickens wrote that the varnished wood reflected “in the depth of its grain, through all its polish, the hue of the wretched slaves.” Antiques: Mahogany’s History in Slavery in the Caribbean 2012-08-23T22:00:55Z And at this wretched historical juncture, I’m loath to make anyone’s day worse. Scenes From a Marriage: One Cheats, the Other Wants To 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The important thing is to relish New Year’s Day, the one moment in the year when almost everyone is feeling as tired and wretched as you are. 7 ways to survive New Year’s Eve 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet she agrees to marry David, whom she’s put off for years, after a wretched proposal in which he breaks down in tears. Review: ‘Sally4Ever’ Sends a Black-Hearted Valentine 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The grainy black and white photographs of a wretched woman with her nose cut off and her stomach sagging like a burst balloon from where she had been mutilated. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z I agree getting involved is a terrible idea . . . no, wretched. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: In-laws need to divorce themselves from their mediation idea 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Even when sucking on a pipe in a wretched den, he's recognized as that Bill Clinton guy from television. 'Darrell Hammond' traces SNL star's painful path to laughter 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Mark Twain’s “Roughing It,” for instance, made it easier for white readers to feel just fine about the extermination of American Indians he described as “the wretchedest type of mankind I have ever seen.” A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The story also refers to Gautama’s home town, Gwalior, which has a population of almost two million, as “a small city . . . one of those wretched places where the streets are narrow and crowded.” This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma on the Complicating Forces of Shame 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The death of Little Nell shook him to his foundations: “I am slowly murdering that poor child, and grow wretched over it,” he wrote to a friend. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z I was wretched there, lost a stone a term from sheer misery, but it wasn't because of the school's ethos so much as the fact I was teased rotten and never made any real friends. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z As an antidote to those wretched machines, they recorded Random Access Memories entirely live, with dozens of musicians, in studios in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z Glee began as a show about losers, outcasts, the wretched, slushie-drenched refuse of high school. Glee Holds On To That Feelin', One Last Time 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z At this point, the wretched wifi freezes again and when it finally resolves itself, I decide I have to release her from my technological disasters. Catherine O'Hara on the joy of Schitt's Creek: 'Eugene Levy is the sweetest man!' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Its first two albums sounded wretched, as if recorded through a bowl of cake batter in an empty swimming pool. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z But if Dominik isn’t interested in or capable of understanding that Monroe was indeed more than a victim of the predations of men, it’s because, in this movie, he himself slipped into that wretched role. ‘Blonde’ Review: Exploiting Marilyn Monroe for Old Times’ Sake 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Or, “I still feel wretched every day but want to use that experience to help out another couple!” Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z However, he was soon at loggerheads with officials and fellow players, and his final years were wretched, emaciated by throat cancer. Vintage TV Launches 2010-08-31T23:05:00Z As much as you may loathe Marek’s predatory captors, there is no escaping the reality of their wretched circumstances. Review: In ‘Eastern Boys,’ a Train-Station Pickup Gone Wrong 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The wretched fellow had obtained a new pet, a 1-year-old hound who had been inadequately civilized by her previous owner. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A new dog. A closed door. A mysterious puddle. Can Sherlock Holmes solve this case? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s a troubled land, staggering from wretched excess and aching losses, a country where dreams have often slipped into out-and-out delusions, and people hunger for deliverance, if only in the person of a half-baked messiah. Denis Johnson’s Poetic Visions of a Fallen World 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Both men were utterly original, extremists in their work and in their sometimes wretched lives. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z He can write about awful things—or not awful, because our movie, people aren’t doing wretched things to each other as they sometimes do in his stories—but he doesn’t really judge the characters. Matthew Broderick on Dirty Weekend and Ferris Bueller at 30 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Two massive square voids sited within the footprints of the towers, it digs down — almost as if the collapse of the towers had pounded out a space to deposit feelings about that whole wretched day. Gravity's Rainbow: The 9/11 Memorial Manages a Delicate Balance Between Grief and Consolation 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z He spent most of 2010 at Rikers Island prison after pleading guilty to a weapons charge, and released two wretched, placeholder albums: the rap-rock “Rebirth” and the outtakes collection “I Am Not a Human Being.” Album review: Lil Wayne, 'Tha Carter IV' 2011-08-29T20:26:00Z The telling of his tale in all its intricate and wretched detail is perhaps the only thing that animates him. The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z So I married the guy and moved into the house, and it was pretty wretched. How to decide if in-laws are too close — or close enough for comfort 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The Saudis’ accommodation of the Westerners is as uncomfortable as those wretched one-liners, and by the time Act II opens in 1991, Hank and Tina’s marriage has turned bitter. Review: ‘Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,’ a Musical 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z These flashbacks are going to keep getting more and more vivid until we find out that Lucious has her stashed away at some wretched care facility he never visits. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 5: Baptism 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Analysts say the wretched economy means Kim is tied to the policies of his late father who oversaw the development of the state's nuclear and missile ambitions. Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military 2012-04-15T08:57:00Z “That’s My Boy” is a pretty wretched movie if you want to activate your brain cells, but its busily plotted second half approaches involving. Movie Review: ‘That’s My Boy,’ With Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg 2012-06-15T00:22:48Z Don't even get me started on the dysfunctional relationship between Kermit the Frog and the wretched Miss Piggy. Why Bert and Ernie shouldn't get married 2011-08-10T22:20:00Z It tells the story in pictures of wretched real estate excess. Roundup: Antiquities seized, Facebook sued, lost Henri Matisse interviews 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Unlike the wretched ragweed, they are not to be sneezed at. This valuable plant looks like ragweed, but allergy sufferers can breathe easy 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z We need more “wretched refuse” just like him And less from Donald’s tongue. Style Invitational Week 1265: Parody for the course — write a song about school 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z His scenes are silent, monochromatic, empty of all human presence except his own wretched solitude; this is the art of a noctambulist. Van Gogh to Kandinsky; Edvard Munch: Graphic Works; Picasso and Modern – review 2012-08-04T23:05:38Z They might, that is, if they stop doing the utterly wretched routines that pass for choreography on this show. Dance Review: Out of the DVR and Onto the Stage 2010-10-08T22:00:00Z A judge in a tiny courtroom signed and stamped our divorce decree on a cloudy spring day in 2001, granting us a visa to a wretched new country. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z This year's celebrity autobiographies, generally agreed to be an improvement on the wretched class of 2011, fared respectably but not brilliantly, led by Miranda Hart's mixture of humour and memoir, Is It Just Me? Bestselling books of 2012 – commentary 2012-12-28T22:55:06Z And yet he includes this wretched episode in “My Life as a Russian Novel.” Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The Barrera heirs, would-be successors and arriviste rivals — a whole indulgent younger generation named Los Hijos, characterized by wretched excess and suicidal stupidity — make for countless shifting allegiances, fake names, dispensable henchmen and other complications. ‘The Border’ Is a Stunning and Timely Conclusion to Don Winslow’s Drug-War Trilogy 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z On Earth the unchosen live in wretched deprivation, policed by killer robots. The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z In telling the story of a naïve wanderer whose eyes are opened by the terrifying, wretched souls— Donald Trump, Dante and the End of Your Elitist Tastes 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z It speaks eloquently of female loyalty and empowerment, as well as the wretched limits of both. Chronicles of the years of fire 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z What did this wretched daughter want more than the puppy? Books of The Times: A Mother?s Devotion, a Family?s Tearful Regrets 2011-03-30T22:25:15Z You’re thinking about what landed you in this wretched place, which is hard to dramatize. Prison Life, Real and Onscreen 2013-08-02T21:08:42Z Sex and the City 2″ received far more scathing treatment from male reviewers than did guy-oriented movies that were every bit as wretched, I at first resisted. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z The wife of an ophthalmologist, who somehow retains her sight, leads her husband and other blind survivors as they navigate a wretched landscape without food, water and other necessities. ‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z It was wretched to see the vacuum repair shop finally die on my high street earlier this year. Smartphones to yoghurts – did we ever need so much consumer choice? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Assange distanced himself from Bill Condon's film, describing it as "wretched" work "of debased truth" in a to the actor playing him. Assange biopic tops film flops list 2013-11-27T11:14:48Z But the women’s attire for “Bal de Couture” was mainly wretched, in theatrical terms. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino 2012-09-22T00:16:05Z I feel a bit wretched asking him about her, as though I am probing a wound that clearly hasn't healed: it's less than a year since she died. Amy and me 2012-06-25T19:00:04Z A few drinks and wretched pop songs later, I found myself hurrying to the parking lot with another young guy who told me I had “beer goggles” and that my dance partner was very unattractive. Modern Love: Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes 2011-05-19T21:19:57Z He had no use for academic study, or for anyone in power anywhere in his wretched country, where successive political movements claimed to represent the people and to fight for their needs. Shooting Angels by Christopher Hope ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:01Z Flexner declared the majority of the regular schools “utterly wretched” and “hopeless affairs” and discounted all irregular institutions as “worthless” and “fatally defective.” The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z The wretched man's last words before he was hanged were: "To kill is the final possession." The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley – review 2012-08-03T21:55:03Z He describes it as “a strange little instinct like something from childhood, a sudden capricious wickedness, a piece of wretched devilment.” Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The wretched and the brave, and such is Saunders’s magnificent portraiture that readers will recognize in this wretchedness and bravery aspects of their own characters as well. Colson Whitehead on George Saunders’s Novel About Lincoln and Lost Souls 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z She has become one of the abject castaways of the musical’s title, a wretched of the earth. Movie Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman 2012-12-24T22:48:43Z Her solo dancing in the Stravinsky ballets was wretched, flicking lightly at steps that require a rigor she lost long ago. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z When Lazarus writes of the “huddled masses” and the “wretched refuse,” she wasn’t waxing poetic; she was documenting a crisis and trying to bring into being a great nation’s magnanimous response. Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “In this wretched world that we live in, especially now, there are so many social and economic issues that create disputes,” he said. A Concert Hall in Paris Aims to Bridge Divides 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The book is a despairing account of a boy and his father lurching across the cold, wretched, corpse-strewn, ashen landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z “Nothing more wretched than what I must endure.” Bob Dylan in concert at Constitution Hall: Vexing, enchanting, punishing The cheeky title, coupled with the wretched circumstances of the artist’s death, brings wit to the tragedy. Restoring the tragicomic tone to Bas Jan Ader 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z This five-part adaptation of the autobiographical novel series by Edward St Aubyn has been an electrifying portrait of a man paralysed by trauma while trying to be better than the wretched beings who raised him. Patrick Melrose - Cumberbatch finds privilege corrupts 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z As wretched, would-be lovers, their cushioned timbres purr with sound — luxurious, yes, but also a moment of golden-age magic. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Last week, a wretched story came out of Ohio. Perspective | The 10-year-old pregnant girl exists. Why did people think she didn’t? 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z In the way of many veteran reality series, however, the featured couples have gotten less likable and more wretched as the series has evolved. Why "Temptation Island" is back and "90 Day Fiancé" is having a moment 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z She looks upon the woman’s “wretched body” as nonhuman, “a carapace of something long ago caught and killed in a spider’s web.” Review | In ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,’ last-ditch medical interventions are their own horror story 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Would I have to start the whole, wretched woke man search from scratch? My search for Mr Woke: a dating diary 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z “Looks like that spot didn’t help you much,” I said, hoping to convey in my tone that I thought she was disgusting and wretched and didn’t deserve to live. When I hit a girl 2014-04-09T23:00:00Z Before long, talk turned to the wretched state of reproductive rights in this country, and when I asked Sparks if there was any chance of her reviving Rock for Choice, she demurred. L7 frontwoman says feminist pop stars like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift should reboot Rock for Choice 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z She asks her husband, "How does one fit in with these dirty, stinking, filthy, wretched humans?" "Neighbors From Hell": The perversion of the suburbs, unleashed! 2010-05-29T23:01:00Z The difference between his lyrics and poems is tissue-paper thin except when he was writing some wretched approximation of free verse: Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z She watches the wretched Jewish refuse of Europe’s teeming shores come through this harbor, and sees too what possibilities and difficulties lie ahead in this American Zion. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z Kennedy lets loose a zany adventure in which a handsome badger is kidnapped by the miserable McGloone family, which keeps a cupboard of knives for every wretched occasion from “peeling penguins” to “dicing goldfish.” Turning Myths and Fairy Tales on Their Heads 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z There are no pleasant moments in “Pervert Park,” only wretched and thought-provoking ones. Review: ‘Pervert Park’ Presents Sex Offenders in Their Own Words 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z We pray for her, and that the cure for this wretched disease will be at hand soon. Pierce Brosnan's daughter Charlotte dies of ovarian cancer at 42 2013-07-02T12:26:59Z The difference between that wretched film and this book is that Bennett knows what he is doing. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – review 2012-05-29T11:00:22Z Disease, dying and death are usually depicted as wretched or bloody onstage. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z The characters may wish they’d closed their eyes and covered their ears, but the reader will devour every exquisitely wretched revelation. Crimes of the Heart 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Yet there’s comfort here, too: What is that bird’s wretched cry but the masterly note of the poet who has not neglected his music? Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Despite the wretched conditions he was held in, Bergdahl desperately clung to the idea that he would be freed, even as months stretched into years. Serial recap – season two, episode five: Meanwhile, in Tampa 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z More effective is the film's naturalistic mood, its portrait of an environment dominated by a wretched business, one that scars lives and upends hopes and dreams. Flashes of happiness amid grim necessities in 'Manos Sucias' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z He ascribes Guinness’s elusiveness, his love of disciplined work and good manners to the legacy of the “indignity and disorder of his wretched early years.” Le Carré, the Con Man’s Son: Writer, Liar, Survivor, Spy 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Larkin, a gloomy bachelor with a wretched romantic life, a proud provincial decidedly not clean of prejudice, was a great love poet. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z She was in a wretched position, for which she was partly responsible. U-turn on fuel duty? Osborne sends in a woman to take the Paxman flak 2012-06-27T12:30:56Z I was happy 90 seconds ago, but now I'm sad and it's all this wretched trailer's fault. Les Misérables? Not half as wretched as I was after watching this trailer 2012-05-31T11:42:00Z “It was just wretched excess. But it was a glorious time that celebrated the new American aristocracy.” Christine Baranski Is an Expert in ‘Gilded Glamour’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The three play versions of themselves, all working as writers on a wretched children’s TV series while shopping a project that they think will elevate them to the big time. Review: Name-Dropping ‘Nobodies’ Hoping for Showbiz Success 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s now a recurring motif in “Outlander,” whenever Claire steps in to cure one of several wretched characters who would have otherwise croaked. Perspective | In Starz’s enjoyably escapist ‘Outlander,’ a relevant story line about finding the cure 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z You sense remnants of dignity in this wretched man, even as he thrashes about like a caged animal, all wiry limbs and spastic twitches. Review: A Divisive ‘Fidelio’ Draws Boos at Salzburg 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Instead the honor went to Meryl Streep, nabbing her third Oscar for the wretched Margaret Thatcher biopic “The Iron Lady,” a movie very few people actually liked. The Oscars might not be #SoWhite in 2017: These buzz-worthy performances could be game-changers 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z The whalers and their animals now could only sit and watch the wretched dying throes of their ship as it sank. My ancestors, the cannibals: Whaling, human sacrifice and the true story of “Moby-Dick” 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z She could carve a pair of marble hands or make a little figure from the most wretched and raddled scraps of old cloth. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z The silent routine along with the wretched Czech pop tunes was far more effective at unnerving me. My Prague nightmare: I had never even attempted to kill anyone — why was I under arrest in this foreign city? 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z All the sweat beads and clutched hands get their intensity slowly diluted until you're left with a grotesque parade of nip slips, Peacocks underwear and wretched winking sauciness. Rhye: the sounds of seduction 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z On its central characters, high or low, rich or wretched, it manages, by a sort of divine authorial attention and focus, to confer respect on the individual. Ian McEwan on winning the Jerusalem prize 2011-02-24T11:30:36Z It gradually becomes clear that Wang and the letter writer’s intertwined former lives were not just wretched and miserable, but also violent and treacherous, a snakes-and-ladders series of betrayals. Review: In Susan Barker’s ‘The Incarnations,’ Lives of Despair (Past and Present) in China 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z How their wretched relationship will play out is foreshadowed in the smoldering opening paragraphs of the novel, but another romance, pure and courageous, draws us through these chapters and encourages us to imagine something better. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Turgoose is David, the lonely teenage son of the camp's resident entertainer, who does a cheesy singing act at the wretched on-site "nightclub"; Grainger is Emily, the daughter of Sharon, who runs the camp shop. Film review: The Scouting Book for Boys 2010-03-18T23:00:00Z The color schemes are wretched, with the ballerinas’ shoes — shocking pink or vermilion — adding a note of “Red Shoes” horror to a festive situation. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z You get bored with your story and your characters, you hate them all, you can't think why you started this wretched story in the first place. Top 10 tips for being a best-selling author 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z That began a nightmare that landed him on Rikers Island, a wretched jail complex where violence was a fact of life, but where he was also subjected to cruelly long stretches of solitary confinement. Review: A Shameful Story Gets Its Due in ‘Time: The Kalief Browder Story’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z If I tell you you’re going to realize what a wretched geek I am and then my cover’s blown forever. The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira on Michonne and Planning for Zombies 2013-10-14T16:22:17Z The encore included three sturdy older songs and one wretched new one, about how writing music puts him on “the edge.” Music Review | K?Naan and Wale: At Fillmore, K?Naan?s Boasts, Wale?s Frisky Formalism 2010-04-01T21:34:00Z We learn the unfortunate story of a wretched undercook called Thomas, who according to the coroner's report "feloniously and willfully slew himself" by throwing himself upon the sword of the caddish Lord Oxford. TV review: Great Houses with Julian Fellowes 2013-01-22T22:00:01Z With dialogue so heavy on rhyming slang he comes across like a pearly king, Cheadle's wretched twang makes his scenes genuinely unwatchable. One Day: accent-uate the positive 2011-08-17T10:12:00Z Shock, of course, and grief, but so, too, was a kind of wretched acceptance. What I have learned from my suicidal patients 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Nor does the sex have to be false or wretched or embittered, but if it's an energised refusal of redemption you're after, then sex gone wrong takes some beating. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z They are simply Bruce’s attempts at recreation, in a life dedicated to wretched excess and haunted more and more by sweet or deadly hallucinations. REVIEW: Can Filth Live Down to Its Title? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The wretched face is the poor Roma in their camps.” The Coruscating Moral Vision of André Glucksmann 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z We have a wretched grifter in the Oval Office, who has utter contempt for the rule of law and it tries to manipulate the political process to his own ends, very much like Richard Nixon. MC5’s Wayne Kramer on why Trump is “very much so like Richard Nixon” 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The main character, Jun Do, travels from life in a wretched orphanage to tunnel fighting and kidnapping for the Army, to manning a surveillance station on a fishing boat, before landing in a prison camp. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z We are like dogs, involuntarily dry-retching up a wretched and unprofitable cocktail of acrid bile and foul gas, awaiting applause. New year raises the eternal question: is it possible to live a life without crisps? 2013-01-13T00:05:38Z He has been so good you see, so good to Cora and to his daughters and now the war is over and he feels so very “wretched” inside. Downton Abbey Watch: Mastercheese Theater 2012-02-13T14:15:46Z But this movie is a study in wretched excess. Roger Ebert obituary 2013-04-04T21:17:32Z We found the wretched Maxim on the ground. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z I won't spoil the surprise; suffice it to say that when the ape talks, his "liberty" is crushed by the simultaneous revelation of another all-too-familiar set of prison bars: he has wretched screenwriters. Andy Serkis 2011-08-11T22:00:01Z The high-altitude world of Patrick’s ghastly family is delineated by Mr. St. Aubyn with a razor-sharp eye for the hypocrisies of inherited wealth and the indolence and wretched excesses indulged in by its denizens. Books Of the Times: Edward St. Aubyn?s ?At Last,? an Autobiographical Novel 2012-02-21T23:04:43Z For most of human history, a cleft has guaranteed a wretched existence – or indeed no existence at all Hugo was born at home, as had always been our plan. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z He had the gift of shining the light of literary grace into even the most wretched corners of the world, where spiritual outcasts reside. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z There is the wretched oxymoron of the peaceful ideal of the mid-60s counterculture being subverted by the violence it abhorred, as the decades clicked over. Old music: David Bowie - Cygnet Committee 2012-05-29T10:54:13Z Famines, wars, epidemics and a wretched postcolonial poverty drove them through the ports by the millions. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z She's wretched and he gets a laugh, but it's worth noting that only sainted wives and the topless rate as women in Fuqua world. Brooklyn's Finest: Training Day in Overdrive 2010-03-06T00:20:00Z Instead, he found himself at the center of a straight-to-video stillbirth so wretched that he would literally run from the room when it turned up on HBO. "Best Worst Movie": The cult of the truly bad film 2010-05-14T20:12:00Z Many modern workplaces, with their lures of perks and prestige, are increasingly resembling the Fyre festival: they look spectacular in the pictures but prove wretched to endure. Why stressed workers need four-day weeks – not wellness trends 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In another routine traffic stop, around the same wretched time of morning, I was stopped again. “Is this your car?”: Like Sandra Bland, I confronted an officer who pulled me over for driving while black 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z If a job is wretched and overly stressful, even a few hours of it can be an existential nightmare. Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z I don't work when I'm wretched, I work when I'm happy. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z As his earlier novels, like “I’m Losing You,” attest, no one is better than Mr. Wagner at capturing — and sending up — the wretched excesses of that Sodom and Gomorrah of the West Coast. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z As a young man living in the Netherlands, he was a “depressed, lost, wretched person” until he found enlightenment while studying meditation in India in the ’70s and ’80s. Finding a Warm Welcome in the Elqui Valley 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z A Welsh boy named Billy Williams turns 13 and begins his wretched life as a coal miner. Books of The Times: War, Revolution and a King Who Says ?By Jove? 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z “The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl,” he writes in “Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter.” Books of The Times: Southern Writer With a Soft Spot for Wild Men Metes Out High-Octane Bonbons 2010-12-28T20:32:04Z Among the ranks of the SoundCloud rap generation, there are pranksters, heartthrobs, and dilettantes, but Onfroy clawed to the surface as the genre’s wretched bard. The Violent Life and Shocking Death of XXXTentacion 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z On cable news these days Republicans are warring for attention, as the presidential primary season reaches a boiling point, and Democrats are wondering how to win despite a wretched economy. ?The Contenders? on C-SPAN, Lessons From Losers 2011-09-07T23:21:25Z Three: Maeve has the know-how to make it safely onto the train out of that wretched place—if only for a brief sit. 10 Questions Westworld still needs to answer 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The film also serves as a refreshing alternative for telling the tale, dramatized for maximum titillation while, in its tidy, two-hour package, efficiently stripping away the wretched excess. Jodi Arias film: a new case of fatal attraction 2013-06-19T17:00:15Z And his Amazon series Six Crises is so painfully bad that it is virtually unwatchable not only thanks to the wretched writing but his excruciatingly terrible performance. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The challenge was heightened by the reality that filmgoers knew Ms. Nyong’o chiefly for her portrayal of a wretched character defined by slavery and dressed in rags. Lupita Nyong’o Gains the Ultimate Prize With a Beauty Contract for Lancôme 2014-04-11T21:45:53Z On a previous outing, Jonah and I discovered we shared this addiction, and that bond encouraged me to go through with this trip despite a wretched weather forecast. Life Lessons from “Fishing With Dad” 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z I’ve also seen an equal number of small farms that are disgusting, and produce wretched food that they then sell at the farmer’s market. Where that Christmas feast really came from 2013-12-25T22:00:00Z For instance, if he is having a wretched time at church, can one parent stay home with him while the other goes with the other child? Potty-eschewing preschooler’s bathroom time turns into a battlefield 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But going back to Montgomery stirs up volcanic emotions in him, as does driving Nat Cole to the prison where he spent those long, wretched years. In ‘Driving the King,’ Ravi Howard Imagines Nat King Cole 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z According to her patronizing papa, the wretched gal couldn’t even make her dolls do what she wanted. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 8: Lady Mary, That Skinny You-Know-What 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Visit any French supermarket and you will find a universe of wretched bottles for around 5 euros each, and plenty of French consumers who are happy to buy them. 20 Wines Under $20: A Little More Money for a Lot More Wine 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Hall will undoubtedly be feeling wretched that he caused a disruption. Should there be more heckling in the theatre? 2012-11-06T13:11:21Z Empire was an epic adventure but also, at its heart, wretched and racist. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z So this column amounts to a wretched confession, based on something I noticed the other day. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The case of the missing hidden books 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The celebrity chef whose motto was "wretched excess is just barely enough," said he was horrified at how fat he looked on television and started eating better. Chef Mario Batali comes to town with new cookbook and new approach to food 2010-05-03T20:30:00Z The one exception was the 2008 inauguration - electing the first black president was something really worth celebrating given the country's history with race - but everything else is wretched. Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z But “Deutschland 83,” an espionage series from Germany set in that wretched decade, is fresh and enjoyable nonetheless, distinguishing itself with a young protagonist and a losers’-history perspective. Review: ‘Deutschland 83’ Focuses on a Reluctant Cold War Spy 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Houellebecq likes to cast his novels as the testimony of the present before the court of the future: To understand why we were so wretched, posterity will have to read him. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z School and home are wretched places, but the boys find some escape from the misery in the company of the horses that graze in the meadows at the edge of their public housing estate. Movie Review: ‘The Selfish Giant,’ Directed by Clio Barnard 2013-12-19T23:03:38Z Seventy-six young men storm the barricades, while the wretched Fantine sells more than her hair. Style Invitational Week 1078: Hyphen the Terrible — neologisms plus winning parodies Judged by the usual standards, it is a wretched documentary: visually and narratively sloppy; coy about its motives; slipshod in its adherence to basic ethical norms. | 'Catfish': The World Where You Aren?t What You Post 2010-09-16T22:24:00Z It’s an album of extreme ups and downs: wretched and ecstatic, calculating and abandoned, seesawing between angst and raunch. Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z You longed for the wretched world, then and now, to change. TV review: When I Get Older; River Cottage: Three Go Mad 2012-07-04T21:00:01Z Even so, there’s a noticeable thuggish undertow to the scenes of the teenagers boozing and sometimes spewing their way through a foreign city amid hundreds of their similarly sodden, wretched and retching countrymen and women. Movie Review: ‘The Inbetweeners,’ Directed by Ben Palmer 2012-09-06T22:55:29Z I tend to remain in my seat for the duration of movies, no matter how wretched they may be. The films our critics walked out on: 'There was no way in hell I was going back in' 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z How better to teleport ourselves into the shoes of wretched black bereaved parents than to imagine our own precious offspring succumb to the same cruel fate. Rewind TV: Mary and Martha; Lightfields; Food Glorious Food; Heading Out – review 2013-03-02T22:50:00Z "It's a mild positive, in a wretched sort of way," he said. Gandolfini gone, 'Sopranos' may get only brief bump 2013-06-21T00:19:07Z It would and should be fantastically exciting but is utterly ruined by the wretched soundtrack of Victory Over the Sun blasting through the galleries. Malevich: Master of the avant-garde 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z All those years of misery the wretched Terry caused his parents – oh, Jack's bitter resignation! Corrie on stage? Bless my hairnet! 2011-02-09T21:31:01Z Brands offers a detailed, almost minute-by-minute account of Brown’s raid, which he rates a “wretched fiasco,” a “quixotic venture” that, far from unshackling the enslaved, tightened their shackles even further. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z |
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