Sentence examples for spiritually impoverished from inspiring English sources

"I saw my own faith community as spiritually impoverished," he told me.

What kind of selfhood is it possible to possess when we come from a spiritually impoverished home, one that fails to concede, let alone nourish, each inhabitant's worth?

Arab-Israelis are increasingly angry about being treated as second-class citizens.Many Jews from the diaspora already view Israel as spiritually impoverished and uninviting.

But with a brilliant Mark Rylance in the central role, this production soared beyond "real time" into a primal, ageless realm of myths and giants that a spiritually impoverished world hungers to believe in, whether it knows it or not.

As early as the 1980s, Mr. Mailer observed that most of his ideas — about God and art and violence, as well as his view of America as a kind of spiritually impoverished Cancer Gulch — developed during the 1950s, when he found himself opposing the country's repressive mores.

A parallel attitude among musicians unfortunately came to regard the skilled provision of a score tailored to the demands of script and camera as a spiritually impoverished relation of aspiring symphonic or operatic works.

Are they impoverished?

Relatively impoverished.

Cablevision workers are not impoverished.

His family, though not impoverished, was underfed.

That's a terribly impoverished moral conversation.