Sentences with phrase «as dirt poor»

You can grow up as dirt poor as its protagonist, Cedric Jennings, and still achieve at the highest levels academically — all the way to the Ivy League.

Not exact matches

So, for instance, left wing politicians might not speak about poorer people as dirt explicitly but Sadiq Khan would happily talk about «social cleansing».

In developing societies, masses of people are dirt poor — literally, as Brand saw in the Kenyan dump, grubbing in muck for pennies, others breaking their back tilling dry soil, dying early.

As productive and lushas the rain forest appeared, the soil it stood on was, literally, dirt poor.

Ugly as home made sin, poor as a church mouse, older than dirt, can't dance and do not like cats, but beneath this plain exterior lies one of the world's great lovers.

Wakanda is, on the face of it, dirt - poor as well as mountainous, jungly and inaccessible.

Hey, I think it's a cool enough novelty to have this war biopic star the guy it's about, and it would have been really cool if they coupled that with the novelty of making him old as dirt, so I would have dug it if they waited another couple decades to make this... even though Murphy didn't live past 1971 (Poor guy didn't live to see the formation of Metallica).

Cuba Gooding Jr. is Carl Brashear, the son of a sharecropper who joins the Navy as a way out of his dirt poor existence and fights for the right to be the first nonwhite Navy diver.

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), a skilled hunter who lives in the dirt - poor District 12, volunteers for the Games after her frail 12 - year - old sister Prim (Willow Shields) is chosen as a tribute.

James Brown's (played by twins Jamarion Scott and Jordan Scott as a child, Boseman as an adult) upbringing was the literal definition of dirt poor.

Hugh Jackman stars as legendary ringmaster and purveyor of hoaxes Phineas «P.T.» Barnum, whose dirt - poor upbringing gives way to an entrepreneurial spirit.

In the acclaimed performance that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, Sissy Spacek stars as legendary Loretta Lynn, the dirt poor Appalachian Mountains girl who rose from humble beginnings to become the «Queen of Country Music.»

Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen, a tough as nails and very resourceful resident of the dirt poor District 12.

Based on Presley's own words - plus the examinations of artists like Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, who obviously looked to the King as a premiere influence - Zimney is examining what Gospel, Soul, R&B, Country / Western and even Pop Music meant to a Southern white man who grew up dirt poor, practically without a father, and possibly without a future beyond music.

In February 2005, Senator Amanda Vanstone referred to Indigenous peoples in Australia as being «land rich and dirt poor».