Sentence examples for appalling privation from inspiring English sources

The vast majority will be born into appalling privation, in slums in developing countries.

Thanks to modern communications, the people of the Middle East are increasingly aware of the deep and widening gulf between the opportunities of the free world outside their borders and the appalling privation and repression within them.

After appalling privations he fetched up in northern Vietnam, where he peeped into ancient pagodas heady with incense.

In fact, responsibility for the Magdalene Laundries and the appalling privations they imposed on women and children is hardly limited to one person or even one institution.

Rolfe went to Venice for a holiday in 1908 and remained there for the rest of his life, varying between appalling privations and short periods of extravagance, mainly at the expense of friends and well-wishers with whom he then quarreled.

The people of Syria suffered appalling privations.

Yet this meticulously researched book is alive with engrossing detail, whether on the odour of Chinatown, the privations of a guerrilla camp or the appalling rituals of foot binding.

It's appalling — appalling.

It smacks of privation.

Continual privation can ennoble.

Quite appalling.