Sentence examples for privation of from inspiring English sources

In Serbia, the corruption, violence, and economic privation of the nineteen-nineties created a climate perfect for organized crime.

But having already survived the abuse of Gateshead and the cruelty and privation of Lowood, Jane Eyre is undaunted.

But for my parents, who knew the privation of the Depression, running a self-sufficient household was part of life.

Rejecting any Christian notion of evil as the privation of good (privatio boni), Heidegger's claim is that guilt is the pre-moral source for any morality.

One consequence of Augustine's mature view of evil as "non-being", a privation of the good, is that evil eludes our understanding.

As the years passed I became acutely aware of how painful, destructive and damaging the privation of opportunities for healthy sexual expression can be for prisoners.

Adichie takes her time in reaching the privations of war.

Empty shelves are unlikely to last, but psychologically the ban evokes the privations of Soviet days.

The anxieties and privations of the Occupation gnaw at the city.

What makes anyone leave the certainties of Cardiff for the privations of Syria?

The family was able to avoid the privations of the Cultural Revolution.