Sentences with phrase «in penury»
This is because there is life after sports as some Nigerians sports personalities live in penury despite excelling in their chosen sports.
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Thornberry may have been brought up on in penury on a council estate, but that can not excuse her crass insensitivity, political stupidity and arrogant, patronising contempt for the working class.
The blockade of the Danish kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars had left Norway in penury.
Such a person will not to do anything illegal that would enable him or her to escape living in penury after service.
«Our people are languishing in penury, no employment and our economy is bad.
Most of this stems from the fact that academia is an environment steeped in penury.
Mudbound explores the plight of blacks and whites alike, united in their penury, and also movingly shows how oppressed and conflicted women from varied races and educational backgrounds formed sisterhoods out of mutual human needs.
They lived there in penury, and Schwitters's already frail health declined rapidly.
The people still live in penury.
Do we look like we care??? I do nt fancy anybody from the arsenal board... but if i should make a wish, its i hope Stan ends up broke and lives in penury..
They were isolated and living in penury and for whatever reason, we had become friends and I felt it was incumbent on me to go and visit them and cheer them up, I would get in my car and drive to see them.
The Pennsylvania - born portraitist spent much of her life in penury, suffered violence at the hands of her long - term lover Sam Brody, lost one child to death and another to abduction (by her husband, the Cuban artist Carlos Enríquez)...
Living for most of her adult life in penury, she painted everyone she encountered on the streets of New York, from prostitutes to brush salesmen, museum curators to transsexuals... Her abiding subject, though, remained her extended family.»
It seemed as if life as an artist was a philosophical quest — one where you expected to live in penury, but enlightened penury.