Sentence examples for total privation from inspiring English sources
Those Pythagoreans postulated God or One, on the one hand, and matter or the indefinite dyad, on the other, but they maintained that God or One is the ultimate principle of everything (Simplicius, In Physica. 7.1 30); from this matter came into existence through the total privation of form (ibid. 231.7 9).
"In the total darkness of its privation, the ground would be lit with thousands of fluorescent stars, as if the sky had been scattered on the ground".
Pirates & Privateers and Privations In 1565, Spain had a problem.
The worse it got, the more total his deafness, the worse his health, the worse the level of privation in Vienna in the early 1820s, the greater and more visionary he became.
Mr Benn cited three G8 tests to show extra resources can be raised, and spent effectively to reverse the continent's grim cycle of privation: · On debt cancellation, he said Mr Brown's campaign had ensured G8 relief could total as much as $55 bn£31bnbn); · On aid, he insists the EU's lead has prompted Canada, Japan and the US to double their aid.
Continual privation can ennoble.
But all was not privation.
For some, the privation has brought resignation.
Hardly a privation, you might say.
Returning families will face serious privation.
