Sentence examples for state of impoverishment from inspiring English sources

The lack of links to other people could limit access to other types of social, symbolic and economic capital and to resources needed to survive, thus placing the population in a state of impoverishment.

It's a matter of suddenly, globally, "knowing" that another person represents your only access to some vitally         transmissible truth         or radiantly heightened         mode of perception, and that if you lose the thread of this intimacy, both your soul and your whole world might subsist forever in some desert-like state of ontological impoverishment.

So of course people are going to want magick: to make meaning in their lives, to empower themselves, to vibe themselves up to the point that they feel like they can make a difference in the world, because they live in a state of total spiritual impoverishment that their culture tells them can be fixed with a new iPhone.

Galbraith opined that one consequence of the industrial state was the impoverishment of the public sector.

And to banish the spectre of impoverishment through illness.

Cynics, of course, may feel that Barbera is making a virtue out of impoverishment.

The comic spirit drains out of the movie; the flatness now seems a kind of impoverishment.

Perhaps the impulse stems from a sense of impoverishment among those whose art rarely produces objects.

Despite its history of impoverishment, it conceives itself as an important regional player.

Tracing the more complex ways institutional finance is funding the cycle of impoverishment is not easy.

The town doesn't want to admit it for fear of impoverishment.