Sentence examples for if impoverished from inspiring English sources
And the Italy she left, or rather her patrician, if impoverished, part of it, is impossibly distant.
It's hard enough to keep the clubs' bars happy with the minimal takings they get from an audience of keen, if impoverished teens.
This is life today in the shtetl, once the small-town home of East European Jewry.Towns like Korsun-Shevchenkovsky remained home to vibrant, if impoverished, Jewish communities during the mass migrations of the turn of the century and the pogroms of 1919-20.
You get a better sense of the snobbish if impoverished Rilke's desperate efforts to live up to his aristocratic surroundings at Muzot from just one of Gass's phrases -- the shiny tips of his shoes showing beneath trousers bearing exclamatory creases" -- than you could from a dozen dissertations.
Pakistan has thousands of armed if impoverished zealots who are long on righteousness and short on respect for the government.
If impoverished volunteer CHWs cannot live off of their activities, their ability to do the job will be very fragile; competing challenges that may arise will usually be prioritized before these tasks, especially if the CHW is female and is also responsible for a myriad of other unpaid tasks.
The New Yorker, January 7 , 1933P. 9 Architects are an ingenious, if an impoverished, lot.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, January 7 , 1933P. 9 Architects are an ingenious, if an impoverished, lot.
They were "Scottish exceptionalists", those nationalists who believed Scotland was preeminent and would vote yes even if it impoverished the country, and "blue collar Bravehearts", those working class, largely male, voters who identified themselves as Scottish, not British.
"There are no seasons in the American supermarket," the unidentified voice intones in the opening scene, as the camera sweeps the aisles of one such brightly lighted, heavily stocked if nutritionally impoverished emporium.
