Sentence examples for penury of from inspiring English sources

Against the penury of existence – its brevity and its disappointments – art releases the illusion of plenitude.

During the penury of wartime, some went voluntarily for the promise of wages.

He recounts the penury of Moscow in the chaotic aftermath: empty shops and queues to buy basic groceries with coupons.

The abrupt transition from the obscurity and penury of Compass to the luxuries of stardom has left Nichols puzzled and Miss May rather breathless.

For one thing, the pain that must have accompanied the stressful penury of Ms. Burnett's early days is rendered much more credibly.

The traditional path to an academic job is long and laborious: the solitude and penury of graduate study, the scramble for one of the few open positions in each field, the blood sport of competitive publishing.

One billion people live on less than $1.25 a day (the bank's definition of penury), most of them in what the bank calls middle-income countries such as India and Brazil.

Perhaps Ken's happy to be part of the party of penury, hoping decades of decay will inspire a generation of black kids to hard-bop their way out of the ghetto, generating more jazz to enthuse about on Radio 4.

For them extending the retirement age just means longer penury, accused of "scrounging".

But there are others who stay out of fear — fear that they will grow old alone, fear of penury and homelessness, fear of losing purpose.

Robert Burns was the poet of penury, as much as of life and liberty.