Sentence examples for tale of poverty from inspiring English sources
That song was "Ghetto Story," by a rising star known as Cham, who told a vivid tale of poverty and crime.
We know Coat of Many Colours is coming, and its tale of poverty and mockery never fails to hit the solar plexus.
Her "No Pidas Perdón" was one tale of poverty and survival that won an award; so were songs from Rubén Blades, who won Best Singer-Songwriter Album, and from Choc Quib Town, whose "De Donde Vengo Yo" was Best Alternative Song.
It wasn't until Most steered them in the direction of social commentary and brought in string arranger John Cameron that they settled on what appeared to be a winning style: the bleak funk of Brother Louie, the astonishing 1974 hit Emma, an impossibly morose tale of poverty, failure and suicide.
It's a tale of poverty, extreme poverty; struggle, living in logging camps, living in fabricated homes that float on the water, and things of that sort.
Black Flag founder Greg Ginn told the officers a woeful tale of poverty and powerlessness, claiming he'd never heard of any band named Black Flag.
Rhoda Nunn, star of George Gissing's provocative and heartfelt 1893 novel The Odd Women, has been outshone by virtually every other Victorian and Edwardian heroine for the simple reason that hardly anyone reads Gissing any more (if they pick up a book of his at all, it tends to be New Grub Street, that pitiful tale of poverty-stricken writers).
Rohmer's first feature was a pure-blood product of the burgeoning French New Wave; a loose-limbed, low-budget tale of poverty-row Paris, evocatively played out in the Latin Quarter as its hero rattles between the houses in search of loot.
He recognised the songs for what they were – tales of poverty, vitality and survival".
It's an unstable backdrop for high-speed rhymes, but the rappers zoomed through them, mixing tales of poverty, free-ranging abstractions and disparagement of hip-hop pretenders.
They formed a holy collection of blue-collar heroes on both sides of the ropes, each with extraordinary tales of poverty, hardship, starvation and direct links with generations of fighters.
