Sentence examples for for the poor things from inspiring English sources

For the poor, things are especially tough.

They are third-class passengers, and immediately recognised as such by Sterne's inhabitants, who lurch from pity for the "poor things" to wariness in case they become "rowdy and unmanageable now that they're warming up and realising their good fortune".

On the trivial matter of providing for a relatively cheap and easy to obtain product — contraception — the Obama administration is going to frog-march this invaluable institution forward into a progressive future, and put all that it does for the poor — things that nobody else can do — at risk?

But for the poor, things were so hard for them already that it's just another way to organize themselves.

Why can't adults deal with these things in terms of objective realities?" "But if the job were seen for what it is — for the poor thing it is — who would want to do it?" "That's just it.

I feel bad for the poor thing, forced to work at data rates that make it want to flash its own bios.

Still, Beverly — a stalled poet — is aware enough of his and Violet's decline to want to enlist a maid to help care for Violet: the poor thing has cancer of the mouth, as well as of the mind.

It'd be a nice intellectual triumph for the scientists, but where's the poor thing going to live? "Where's it going to find a mate?

As for the show's title character, the poor thing doesn't really have much of a personality other than that of an animated healing force.

Yet she was also disturbed by her talent for advocating morally dubious positions, like capitalism's benefits for the poor, or "things oppressed people should do about their oppression".

Interviews with food pantries and soup kitchens around the region indicate that several are forgoing the free turkeys for Thanksgiving, and many others are warning that they may have to eliminate year-round meal programs and other services for the poor if things do not improve.