Sentence examples for respectable poverty from inspiring English sources
His family often struggled in respectable poverty.
Taxis are the collective embodiment of the Iraqi middle class, which is really a pseudonym for "respectable poverty".
The flood of Wells's prose lifted him from the respectable poverty in which he was raised to wealth and international fame.
Born into respectable poverty in the tropical lowlands, he saw the army as a route to advancement as do so many lower-middle-class provincial youths in Latin America.
Only a few blocks from what had been the heart of the Yiddish theater, the museum illustrates how a typical Jewish family lived in respectable poverty, relieved by the knowledge that there would be no Cossacks riding into their lives, no laws forbidding them to attend plays in their own tongue and no one to restrict their religious affiliations.
"Now, with the rapid growth of riches, millionaires are too common to receive much deference; a fortune of a million is only respectable poverty," McAllister said.
It opens with despair in the respectable but poverty-stricken Winwood family: eldest daughter Lizzie, the Beauty, is about to be offered for by Lord Rule, but is promised to Edward Heron.
Just as his father had worked his way up from poverty into respectable society, Balzac considered toil and effort his real mark of nobility.
They seem to personify respectively the respectable and unrespectable poor, at a time when the government was making poverty itself unrespectable (though difficult to avoid in a place like North Lanarkshire).
They are worth 50 pesos, or about $5 apiece, a respectable sum in this poverty-stricken rural area.
