Deaf, nearly blind, and often the worse for drink, he haunted the Chelsea Arts Club and the nearby Queen's Elm, living in old age the kind of destitute life he had gone in search of as a young man.
Yet, the reality is that troops endure horrific conditions – they often lack tents or sleeping bags, many must scavenge for firewood to cook and they live a destitute life – hardly the motivation or replenishment required to fight a violent and constant aggressor.
He came to his conclusion, he said, after speaking to a homeless man who was "at a loss for answers about his destitute life," as well as to tourists and art aficionados who expressed a "lack of enthusiasm" about the New Museum, which opened in its Bowery location in 2007.
Before I became destitute, while life was still sweet and carefree, it was simply easier to enjoy one's existence while thinking of deprivation as a vague concept and ascribing it to fecklessness,laziness or inferiority of some sort.
I've never been to India, but the book rendered it strangely familiar: from courtly and provincial Brahmpur to swinging, jazzy Calcutta, destitute village life in Rudhia and the wretched squalor of the shoemakers and tanners, the ever-present shadow of communal violence and the riotous colour of Pul Mela.
It's a good guess that Cosby will end 2016 in prison — and that he will end his life destitute.
It's a good guess that Cosby will end 2016 in prison and that he will end his life destitute.
Instead, I thought, this is a good time to alchemise my destitute and despairing life into, uh, er, ahem … well, writers are like thieves: we're always working.
The school closed in July 1895, but its buildings went on, first, as a Dr. Barnardo's Home for about 300 orphans and then as Watts Naval School, training destitute boys for life in the Royal Navy or Mercantile Marine.
In addition, my father died when I was very young, leaving us fairly destitute with no life insurance.
She had become somewhat destitute late in life, and in the same letter requested some financial assistance, but also provided some history about her mother and the making of the Star-Spangled Banner flag.
