Sentence examples for poverty of means from inspiring English sources

They work with a poverty of means, and they can write anywhere.

The work embraces its poverty of means: the four singers make occasional contributions on drums and bells, and the little chapters of the tale are intoned in tiny sequences of upward-moving scales.

Here was a peculiarly virulent form of reverse snobbery in which a poverty of means, of formal artistry and of sober critical response guaranteed a film's lowlife purity of intent.

For these naive latecomers, the gap between the noble ends of individual liberation and the poverty of available means in their barbarous social order was the greatest.

Worrying about poverty, of course, means worrying about the causes of poverty, and in the past two months we've heard myriad explanations for Middle Eastern deprivation: Western exploitation, Arab corruption, Islamic hostility to modernization, globalization, the failure of globalization, and a dearth of Western aid.

Not only did Philadelphia escape the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty list of "mean cities" but just last month Mayor Michael Nutter announced that his city might be the first in the nation to eradicate homelessness.

At their best, schools should be routes out of poverty, a means of escape from harsh realities.

The relative poverty of our conceptualizations means that one size hardly fits all.

As Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon said, "a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention". This means leaders have to increase the attention capacity in an organization.

And I told myself that it had to be a play for the stage, instead of a novel or a screenplay, because the theatre, being confined to the use of a few actors and a handful of props, is a natural medium for allegory: the inherent poverty of its technical means allows for symbols and ideas to remain the abstractions that they are, even as the theatre grants them a certain invisible concreteness.

In developing countries, the extreme poverty of many people means any cost is unaffordable by most of the population.