Sentence examples for brutal poverty from inspiring English sources

The brutal poverty of his childhood in the Mississippi Delta still leaves him outraged.

Instead of hills and canyons, the city is rendered in soaring concrete, brutal poverty, scary dark nights and hard sunlight.

But if life in the city was better than the brutal poverty of the village, the improvement was only marginal.

Absent the context of brutal poverty and social chaos that Fassbinder more vividly evoked on film, the moral and emotional dealings of the characters feel weightless and insignificant.

Her heroine, Olivia Harker Cross, has endured enough hardships for a dozen lifetimes — a mentally ill mother, a dead father, wrecked romance, brutal poverty.

But India remains a country where much of the population lives in almost medieval conditions, subjected to brutal poverty and oppression, often inflicted in the name of caste, religion or gender.

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Picador) was a quietly devastating examination of immigrant lives, moving between brutal subcontinental poverty and drab subsistence in Sheffield.

This at a time when Korea was a place of brutal, pervasive poverty and a society obsessed with racial purity.

They grow up in a brutal and poverty-stricken climate, abused by their drunken father and neglected by their promiscuous mother.

And that is the brutal cycle of poverty in Haiti that only jobs and trade can break.

Poverty, brutal working conditions and legally sanctioned discrimination persist for new generations of laborers, who are now mostly Latino immigrants.