Sentence examples for was a poverty from inspiring English sources

Although Detour was made by Producers Releasing Corporation, one of several studios that specialized in cheaply made B-films, and thus was a "poverty row" movie, it has the distinction of being the first such film to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Koch opined freely, never mincing words: Movie tickets were too expensive; the United Nations, after an anti-Israel vote, was "made up of gangsters, cutthroats and piranhas"; a Puerto Rican mayoral rival was a "poverty pimp"; Sarah Palin was likable but "scares the hell out of me".

It was a poverty-reduction measure on an epic scale.

In more recent history, Ningxia was a poverty-stricken coal region whose dusty scrubland was in danger of desertification.

Namely, that the country under Mao and after belonged to the 20th-century totalitarian mainstream — that it was a poverty-stricken police state and not a viable alternative to Western ways.

Ian laughs again and reminds me that not too long ago he was a poverty-stricken graduate student as well.

Let's start with who Ruth really was: a poverty-stricken, widowed foreigner.

This is a poverty story.

It's a poverty of imagination.

There is a poverty of facial expressions and gestures..

There is a poverty of facial expressions and gestures...