Sentence examples for penury like from inspiring English sources
Lampedusa's own palaces were reduced to hollow shells by bombs and penury, like the aftermath of a banquet.
It is at once a minstrel show banjo tune and a typical Depression-era celebration of the pleasures of penury, like "Now's the Time to Fall in Love" and "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block".
Blanchett has been the front-runner since July, when critics first caught wind of her turn in Allen's Blue Jasmine as a boozy, Blanche-like socialite keeping her illusions aloft after a Madoff-like scandal reduces her to penury.
It may have saved Labour from penury; but it also looks like a bad blow to its leader's already-tottering authority.Mr Miliband is accruing a reputation for this sort of thing.
What makes "Gigi" so anomalous is its fairy-tale ending: a girl of lowly provenance, destined for a life of high-class prostitution, followed, if she hasn't been savvy, by a fate like her mother's — obscure penury in middle age — finds a safe harbor in the form of a desirable husband.
LIKE North Korea's Workers Partyy, another vile dictatorship that has visited misery and penury on its own people, Myanmar's junta has survived in part through diplomatic triangulation.
He is the scientist, astronaut and entrepreneur whose quixotic adventures in thinking outside the box have allegedly reduced him to penury - although he does have the most extraordinary pad: like a giant atelier for visionary scientists.
But these days both sexes have access to the workplace, and the protection that women like Katrin Radmacher require isn't from helpless penury, but from rapacity – the greed of ex-husbands who violate what should be legally binding contracts to turn divorce into a nice little earner.
YANJI, China — Like many North Koreans, the construction worker lived in penury.
But a more likely future for Zimbabwe is one of isolation and penury.
