Sentence examples for problems of penury from inspiring English sources

Alerting audiences to the painful problems of penury and disease in Malawi is an exceptionally good thing -- and it is also a good gesture, pace those skeptical of the 'drop-in-the-bucket' effort -- that Madonna saved a dying little boy and tried to adopt him.

The late 90s were a horrendous period in the Fall's history, as Smith's lifestyle appeared to take its toll both on their music and the band itself: a mess of penury, drunken violence, legal problems and terrible live shows.

There is one grand exception to this rule of penury.

He can keep the appearance of penury at bay.

In western Germany, signs of penury are hard to find.

But years of penury, gloom and what Louisa called "hard grubbing" had also taken their toll.

Though Jardine may be right to diagnose a scar, her talk of penury seems exaggerated.

The 1910 census indicates that not all artists led lives of penury.

After several years of penury, the cash has started flowing again to the militants.

Implying a situation of penury and hence the lack of a bed.

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