Sentence examples for In some plight from inspiring English sources

She belongs to a country of heathen beaches and of jungles as intricate as the arguments of an eminent ecclesiastic caught in some plight like, say, a-Volstead raid.

Also there were the traditional touts, hoping to cash in on their plight.

Scout, Dill and the others were all outsiders in some sense, a plight at the core of "Mockingbird" and its lessons.

By any measure, Gilbert works hard, and in some ways, the plight of the men, Gilbert's ex, as well as her fiance, seem just as difficult.

In some ways, their plight is worse, since in the Depression generation there was broad understanding that an economic catastrophe had occurred and it was correctly understood as political.

The heart of a woman falls back with the night, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

The exhibition is full of examples of scrambled or dismembered bodies, hyper-realistic sculptures theatricalised in some kind of extreme plight or objectification, and little sculptural tableaux and mise-en-scènes that look like so many doll's tea-parties, sex-parties, torture and autopsy parties.

"And I hope and pray that my visit will bring some comfort in your continuing plight".

The goal, in other words, is to carve out exceptions, at least for the moment, for people who have the most obvious routes to challenge the order in court and for some whose plight is particularly conspicuous, such as translators who worked for the U.S. in Iraq, to whom many in the military (and beyond) feel a debt of honor.

Seeing their community's story in the plight of those boarding tiny, rickety boats for Europe, some Vietnamese Americans are reaching out to help.

Mr. Adnan was not alone in his plight.