Sentence examples for rather impoverished from inspiring English sources

After Mr. Paxton's quietly powerful investigations, Mr. Bel's proposal felt rather impoverished.

This is a rather impoverished metaphysic to support such an intolerably long-winded gospel.

As it turns out, 19th-century London translates quite well to early 21st-century New York, where all of a sudden lots of people are feeling rather impoverished and grim.

Writing in The New York Times in 1958, Meyer Berger said, "Folders the world over acknowledge Akira Yoshizawa, a gentle and rather impoverished but contented origami artist, as the greatest now living". Mr. Yoshizawa's origami went far beyond the wobbly salt cellars made by generations of young people.

That project was transformed, Demopoulos and Friedman argue, by replacing inference from the given in experience to the cause of that experience with an inference to the rather impoverished, structural, reality of the causes of those experiences.

The controls are rather impoverished stimuli (clean office supplies, odor in a tea ball).

If you like egalitarianism, go for nuclear too, so that the risks of energy-production are shared more widely by society in general (and middle-class engineers in particular) rather than impoverished coal miners.

Director Vera Farmiga told us that Briggs didn't leave religion, but rather an "impoverished expression of the Christian religion".

Erasing incentives is not the way to a civilized society but rather to an impoverished one.

The annual tourist traffic of more than 20 million visitors to La Serenissima has impoverished, rather than enriched, most Venetians.

Despite his troubles, he said, he found it preferable to be a street vendor in New York rather than an impoverished resident of Bangladesh, where he worked for little gain as a clerical assistant.