It is hard not to admire Fitzgerald, who, amid material chaos, impoverishment, a failed marriage, and what seems to be severe depression, held her family together, and became its breadwinner.
This psychological impoverishment is accompanied by a massive rise in material poverty.
Forced adaptation entailed impoverishment, both material and cultural, but no alternatives were left.
Late Przeworsk culture ceramic materials from Greater Poland show impoverishment and lack of differentiation of form, but on the other hand metal 5th century clasps, found at a variety of locations from eastern Lesser Poland, through eastern Greater Poland to Kujawy, demonstrate the usual for mature Germanic societies highest quality of workmanship.
The multiple dimensions of child poverty were stressed on the ground that children living in poverty experience not only material deprivation but also emotional and spiritual impoverishment and a lack of family and community resources.
There is even an argument that such relative impoverishment - not of people but of material - may lead to more creative science.
Lack of the kind and degree of patronage that had been given by the pharaohs, Ptolemies, and, to some extent, Roman emperors to the old religion of Egypt meant an impoverishment of schools of skilled craftsmen, avoidance of costlier materials, and a decline in the high standard of finish.
At the end of the war, the United States was the outstanding winner, having suffered relatively minor casualties and material damage by comparison with devastated Europe, and having undergone an astonishing wartime economic boom, which only highlighted European impoverishment.
Impoverishment and famine followed.
New poverty builds upon old impoverishment.
Where some see enrichment, others see impoverishment.
