Sentence examples for tale of poor from inspiring English sources
Page through the gorgeous design — and revisit the rather unfortunate tale of poor Ralph Merkle.
Its tale of poor people losing their land to the rich is timely, chiming with today's land grabs and soaring property prices.
When Ms. Browne Sanders first consulted Judith Vladeck and her colleague Kevin Mintzer in December 2005, they believed her tale of poor treatment at the hands of Mr. Thomas and his Garden superiors.
For a year, from 1935 to 1936, she played the mute girl Pearl in the touring company of "Tobacco Road," Erskine Caldwell's tale of poor sharecroppers, which had been adapted for the stage by Jack Kirkland, who would become the second of her four husbands.
Her story of racial self-loathing tells the tale of poor, ugly, unloved Pecola, whose own mother favours the pretty white Shirley Temple daughters of the family she works for, who is raped by her father, bears his child and who eventually descends into madness through her longing for blue eyes.
Although the report finds much to applaud, it is also a tale of poor coordination, missions being duplicated or falling through the cracks, and confusion inside the administration and the private humanitarian groups that sometimes cannot be sure with which agency to work.
Tales of poor labour relations and dubious demands from performers are legion in Italian opera.
The National Union of Teachers has said that if the tales of poor marking are confirmed, all the results should be annulled.
Otherwise he would not have been able to record so many convincing tales of poor and struggling people decades after achieving fantastic wealth and success.
It's no wonder, then, that Horatio Alger stories, tales of poor kids who make good, are much less common in reality than they are in legend — and much less common in America than they are in Canada or Europe.
We can now look forward to tales of Poor Jen being a "bridezilla", her "baby agony" and every other allegation the tabloid press likes to throw at famous women as punishment for being female.
