Besides, it gives her a window on community wretchedness and some remarkable efforts to combat it. |
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In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation. |
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But there are fissures in the cocky exterior that occasionally reveal a rage and a wretchedness that seems to border on despair. |
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But, he failed to mention that, with that knowledge comes misery and wretchedness, pain and suffering. |
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He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness. |
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But the statistics alone, as horrifying as they are, hardly convey the trauma, pain and wretchedness of the victims. |
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Nine months on, could the desire to put an end to the wretchedness of war plot a path out of Syria's four-year conflict? |
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It has one of the best closet scenes ever: with Clare Higgins as a raunchy, bibulous Gertrude dishevelling into a tousled heap of wretchedness. |
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Out of sight are pockets of wretchedness similar to slums in developing countries such as India. |
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He chose to identify very particularly with those in conditions of poverty and wretchedness. |
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We can be that sign, despite our own wretchedness, if with faith and trembling we let Christ live in us. |
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And again it is our wretchedness that impedes us now from contemplating Our Lord, and makes his figure appear dark and distorted. |
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Your wretchedness is not an obstacle but a spur for you to become more united to God and seek him constantly, because He purifies us. |
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Even in your wretchedness and your guilt, I accept you as you are and tell you that I have forgiven you already. |
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He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins. |
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In the subsequent chapters the narrator is pulled, inexorably, to new depths of disillusionment and wretchedness. |
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The working classes of thatcherite Britain were in dire need of a spokesperson to celebrate their wretchedness. |
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Many people around the world experience, at some time or the other in their lifetimes, a feeling of wretchedness, desolation, hysteria and ingratitude within themselves. |
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I weep over my wretchedness throughout the day. |
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In her hands our offerings are purified and our wretchedness is cleansed. |
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By fairly common consent, a hangover will involve some combination of headache, upset stomach, thirst, food aversion, nausea, diarrhea, tremulousness, fatigue, and a general feeling of wretchedness. |
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Yet such wretchedness often seems almost unreal to the other third of the world's population, as if only a series of virtual images of squalor, periodically flitting across a television screen. |
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Whitechapel as he saw it was a thriving, prosperous place, with its wide, busy, well-lit central artery, and all the wretchedness and squalor were buried in contiguous courts. |
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You who set out to be contemplative, choose rather to be humbled by the unimaginable greatness and incomparable perfection of God rather than by your own wretchedness and imperfection. |
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The legacy of this wretchedness is the powerful third force of Belarusian politics. The nature of this force is captured by many of the jokes Belarusians tell about themselves. |
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Belarus's plight makes even the heavily managed democracy in its eastern neighbour, Russia, seem lively. And the wretchedness of Belarus continues to cast doubt on whether its proposed merger with Russia will ever take place. |
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Only by experiencing forgiveness, by recognizing one is loved with a freely given love a love greater than our wretchedness but also than our own merit do we at last enter into a truly filial and free relationship with God. |
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Young people are constantly being told not to be so impatient, but if there was ever anything to be impatient about, it is the wretchedness that besets so much of humanity. |
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Someone who is caught in the jaws of poverty and wretchedness will view these concepts as little more than decorative and as products of futile intellectual debates. |
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Raising people above that level of wretchedness is not a sufficient ambition for a prosperous planet, but it is a necessary one. The world's achievement in the field of poverty reduction is, by almost any measure, impressive. |
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A common feature, too, is the wretchedness of the Russian muzhik. |
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Romanticism revered the traditionalism of rural life and recoiled against the upheavals caused by industrialization, urbanization and the wretchedness of the working classes. |
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She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation. |
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