Sentence examples for impoverished world from inspiring English sources
For Lahore's upper class, these assets are everything – life preservers that allow them to maintain their precarious position above the grimy, impoverished world inhabited by their servants.
But with a brilliant Mark Rylance in the central role, this production soared beyond "real time" into a primal, ageless realm of myths and giants that a spiritually impoverished world hungers to believe in, whether it knows it or not.
Then there was Secret Millionaire, the rich man's equivalent of social poverty pilgrimage, entering impoverished world, only to emerge redeemed and chastened, like a biblical parable, to much grateful sobbing from the few who were that week's deserving poor.
"We live in a zoologically impoverished world from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared," wrote Alfred Russel Wallace, the man who cracked evolution at the same time as Darwin.There were clues to the reasons for their disappearance.
In The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876) he wrote, "We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared".
Deplorable though this is, I believe we may be smart enough to survive in a biologically impoverished world.
Hollywood also tried out Somalis as bad guys in Captain Phillips, but because the pirates were impoverished third world denizens, they were kind of pathetic, and one of them was actually sort of likable.
When a skinny stick man who kicks a ball around in shorts on a field is worth $120m, and yet billions are impoverished, what world do we live in?
The British, impoverished by World War I, faced the prospect of slipping behind the US and Japan.
But civil war saw Nepal impoverished, leading the world in its number of daily abductions.
At the same time, we already wish immortality on our favourite personalities who have yet to meet their demise, so impoverished would our world be without them.
