Sentence examples for life plight from inspiring English sources

To his credit, Cameron has sought to address not only fictional struggles in the virtual world but also the real life plight of indigenous peoples fighting to preserve their ancestral lands from hydropower development.

Simmons's historical suspense novel depicts the real-life plight of the Franklin expedition, commanded by John Franklin, that set out to discover the Northwest Passage, in 1845, and never returned.

The last time a single-hander worked on the telly was when the regal June Brown took on a solo EastEnders as Dot gave a monologue, into a tape-recorder, ashamedly discharging herself of the care of her husband Jim, in a painful parallel to the real-life plight of stroke-victim actor John Bardon.

Working for the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), an NGO that aims to improve people's mobility and their access to basic services, we had the idea to use the latest technology to bring to life the plight of these people who lack the very basics of survival.

He was now drawn to another scandal of Victorian life, the plight of the young sweeps, whose brutal masters condemned them to lives of misery and, often, early deaths, if not from falls or suffocation, then from lung disease or cancer.

Whether it was Lorde singing of her unimpressive address "in a torn up town, no postcode envy" or Musgraves bringing to life the plight of people occupying "tiny little boxes in a row — ain't what you want, it's what you know," the Grammys offered austerity themes at the expense of tropes like fame and true love.

Despite prevailing trends, which favored rural life, the plight of peasants, and the ills of growing industrialization, she chose animals as her subjects.

That's his life and his plight.

It also brought into sharper focus my own life and the plight of my people.

She devoted years of her life to the plight of refugees.

"Humanity is suspended undecidably between the affirmation and negation of life," and this plight is fundamental not only to tragedy but to life itself.