Sentence examples for at privations from inspiring English sources

Puritans believed that expressions of thanks to God for their good fortune helped keep his future punishments at bay — a point that does not detract from the genuine appreciation they felt at privations' end.

Of course, an even better way to piggyback on what our grandmothers knew about thumbing their noses at privation would be to actually follow their instructions, step by step.

North Koreans authorised to speak to visitors appear to be oblivious of their guests' annoyance at such privations.

The summer suspension of hot water is such a part of life that it has found its way into poems and songs, Russians being accomplished at turning privation into art.

"Hostel" suggests bunk beds and shared bathrooms, but there are no privations at this delightful place built right into the sassi, with superlative views.

The long civil war has forced two million Syrians outside the country's borders, but more than twice that number face mounting privations at home, and the toll keeps rising.

In the absence of this proximity - as one four hundred thousandth part of an American show of strength - Swofford directs much of his frustration at the dehumanising privations of life in the sand.

Pirates & Privateers and Privations In 1565, Spain had a problem.

Contrasting the bliss of life at home with the privations of political life, such correspondence anticipated antebellum distinctions between public and private and the middle-class cult of domesticity.

Soon there are killings, curfews, battles at the periphery, the privations and asphyxiations of life under militant rule.

Orwell, chafing at the restrictions and privations of wartime London, wrote in his diary in 1940 that he was "thinking always of my island in the Hebrides".