Sentence examples for capturing the plight from inspiring English sources

By capturing the plight of California's ­Depression-era migrant workers, Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" transformed a nation's attitudes toward the poor from the moment of its publication in 1936.

De Neve used his considerable wealth to found religious sanctuaries for the needy, and in Murillo he recognised a painter capable of both sensitively capturing the plight of Seville's poor and creating symbols of spiritual salvation through art.

Produced by New York Times Magazine, the immersive film follows in the footsteps of Vrse.works' Clouds Over Sidra, capturing the plight of refugee children from their own perspective.

Mr. Meyers, in that quick dig on April 30, captured the plight of the third-term mayor.

In 1941, he began documenting poor farmers for the Farm Security Administration, a federal program that captured the plight of the needy during the 1930's and 1940's.

Kingsolver sensitively captures the plight of the rural poor, a population endangered both by diminishing resources and by self-enforced isolation.

(This year the feature film "Sin Nombre" captured the plight of teenagers riding trains to escape dead-end poverty in Honduras and gang violence in Mexico).

PAGE A10 John Schlesinger Dies The Academy-Award-winning director of "Midnight Cowboy," whose films often captured the plight of individuals grasping for support in modern society, was 77.

Among the photographers who have captured the plight of these Syrians in their new settings are Shawn Baldwin and Ayman Oghanna, each of whom has documented refugee camps along the Syrian-Turkish border.

John Schlesinger, the Academy-Award-winning director of "Midnight Cowboy" whose other films -- including "Billy Liar," "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" and "Darling" -- often captured the plight of individuals grasping for life support in contemporary society, died yesterday in Palm Springs, Calif., where he lived.

One of the film industry's most persistently entertaining performers, Cusack perfectly captures the plight of the thirtysomething hipster who belatedly realises that collecting obscure Solomon Burke records and limited-edition Dutch EPs by The Cure makes a good hobby but a bad lifestyle.