Sentence examples similar to terrifying poverty from inspiring English sources
Characters, settings, and the half-believed Haitian vodou religion are handled with patience and complexity, even in a terrifying, poverty-stricken setting.
The real problem with this case is that the compassion these nine Germans were shown by the far right sure as hell ain't shown to the millions of families in much greater need of a new home in America: people escaping generational poverty and terrifying cycles of violence that Uncle Sam often had a hand in creating.
"This is a terrifying situation, especially among the poverty stricken citizens.
To lose a job, even one that pays poverty wages, during a time of high unemployment is terrifying.
It was a disorienting, smelly, traffic-crazy, scary city full of begging monks, teenage gangs, motorcycles, temples, murderous pimps, terrifying prostitutes, sleaze bars, strip joints, street vendors, colonies of homeless people, and mind-boggling poverty.
Her utterly vulnerable solitude carries terrifying overtones of wartime flight; though ostensibly travelling for medical reasons, she seems more like a refugee facing poverty, indifference, contempt, and betrayal.
Describing his poverty-stricken upbringing in the chaotic and lawless state of Uttar Pradesh, the magazine said he was "as tragic as he is terrifying".
