Sentence examples for tale of penury from inspiring English sources

It is a tale of penury, perdition and fear, of babes in the woods and, potentially, failure.

News of the survey has brought lamentations from the Society of Authors this weekend and tales of penury from several well-known writers, including the Carnegie medal-winning writer Mal Peet, who described his income from sales as "literally abject".

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

"Summer in Baden-Baden" was composed during a time of penury and isolation.

In New York, those Irish immigrants who had survived the crossing found themselves in the same state of penury.

We have large hidden debts and spending, an unprecedented lack of competitiveness and social insurance funds in a state of penury.

This plucky Middle American chronicle, starring an unsinkable, relentlessly resourceful mother and her Madison Avenue-style magic, succeeds on many levels — as a tale of family spirit triumphing over penury, as a history of mid-century American consumerism, and as a memoir about a woman who was both ahead of her time and unable to escape it.

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.