Sentence examples for impoverished him from inspiring English sources

The man himself was fabulously wealthy, the owner of slaves and estates, capable of raising his own armies for a while, though his struggles ultimately impoverished him.

Although Winston had paid off the fine by 1651, it had impoverished him.

Impoverished him, in fact, to the point where he wrote to Engels that "I have written nothing for Dana because I've not had the money to buy newspapers".

Norman suffered multiple heart attacks and respiratory disease which restricted him, impoverished, to his home in Manhattan.

Beside him sat an old man who was clearly impoverished; he didn't say a word, and seemed about to fall asleep.

He often tells the story of how another African-American member of the team, Frederick T. Smith an eventual Rhodes scholar, who intended to put his economics degree to use among impoverished communities criticized him for devoting himself to science.

You should assist him but should not be utterly impoverished.

Suffering from a "hacking and persistent cough", Eytel remained in Palm Springs, impoverished, and Swinnerton would buy art supplies for him.

The defense cast him as a reformed criminal turned impoverished community servant who, despite the outrageous conduct of an undercover agent who pushed countless envelopes of cash on him, never committed any crime.

One thinks of Beethoven, clawing at his piano to try to break through his deafness; or Mozart, impoverished, struggling to finish his Requiem before death overtakes him.

His alter ego was as the unpaid editor of The Paris Review, an enduring, chronically impoverished quarterly, founded in 1952 by Peter Mathiessen and Harold L. Humes, who asked him to edit it.