Sentence examples for poor existence from inspiring English sources

This led to the start of a peripatetic and often wretchedly poor existence that lasted almost a decade.

On that day residents of Jedwabne, a little village about 85 miles northeast of Warsaw, beat, bludgeoned and knifed 1,600 of their neighbors, Jews with whom until then they had peacefully managed to share their poor existence.

His life was a mess, his last novel had been crapped on from a great height by all the shitbags in London, he doubted he would ever write anything of lasting value, and yet — with those strings climbing timorously and the brass clearing its throat as if to make some great statement that was never, finally, made — there were still transcendent moments to be had in this poor existence of ours.

If we remain on our present course, we will condemn our children and those children that follow to a much poorer existence than that with which we have been blessed.

Since her father is MIA and her mother is basically catatonic, it is immediately apparent that Ree's lone ambition, her only real escape from her dirt-poor existence, is merely a pipe dream.

And Campbell, he says, didn't hesitate delving into emotionally and personally revealing territory, spanning the hardscrabble early life as the seventh of 10 children born to sharecropper parents in Delight, Ark., and his escape from a dirt-poor existence when he came to California in the 1950s and quickly became one of the busiest session guitarists in Hollywood.

It is one of the largest forms of wealth transfer to the poor in existence.

In the preface to her biography, Dr Goodwin writes: "An immense gulf had opened between the rich and the poor; daily existence had become more difficult for ordinary people, and the middle class felt increasingly squeezed".

Only willful blindness can fail to recognize continuing racial inequality and sexual discrimination, the increasing gulf between the rich and the poor, the existence of millions who lack access to adequate medical care, and a court system that has less to do with justice than with the cleverness of the lawyers one can afford.

The poor aunt's existence is the her reason for existing, just as with everybody else..

The poor aunt's existence is the her reason for existing, just as with everybody else.