Sentences with phrase «itinerant families»

Built decades ago for budget - minded tourists, they're now filled with itinerant families who pay $ 35 a night to live in purple - stuccoed splendor.

The setting this time is the row of cheap motels surrounding Disney World, once a hub for budget - minded tourists and now a home for itinerant families.

Small itinerant families — the original inhabitants of the area — could not accumulate much food, so there was little potential for collective conflict.

His parents are from South Africa, and, like the itinerant family described in his novel, The Laments, they couldn't stay put anywhere.

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The cross, as a Christian symbol, gets you right to the idea that a guy whose family was in the building trades in some colonial backwater left home to become an itinerant preacher, was put to death in a particularly shabby way, and turned out to be God Incarnate.

Son of an itinerant evangelist, spotless in his family life, loyal to his friends, a superb orator, a lawyer and politician, Ingersoll rejoiced in pointing out what he believed to be the evils sanctioned in the Old Testament and was an enthusiastic Darwinian.

Her father, an itinerant choir director, was constantly running from both debt and his immediate family; the former was due to his lack of a steady job and the latter to his secret life as a gay man.

As we write or talk about migrant - labor families and their search for work and schools, should we describe their travels as «nomadic,» «peripatetic,» or «itinerant,» all of which connote moving from place to place?

Will Rees, an itinerant weaver searching for his son who has left the family farm, finds him in a Shaker community where a suspicious death has taken place.

As she slowly gets to know Frank, Alice becomes consumed with finding out who Frank's father is, how his gorgeous «piano teacher and itinerant male role model» Xander fits into the Banning family equation - and whether Mimi will ever finish that book.

Alfresco cafes, ethnic restaurants, informal family bistros, boutique pubs and coffee shops provide a diverse range of culinary options while a variety of chic nightclubs and intimate bars offer a kaleidoscope of nightlife choices where millionaires in t - shirts clink glasses with itinerant surfers.

But as Neo-Geo's star waned, the idea of leaving New York grew on the painter, who had grown up traveling the world with two itinerant parents (as a family, they rarely lived anywhere for more than two years).

Sabih Ahmed from Delhi adds a moving cross-cultural dialogue by creating an undulating wall installation consisting of tiny images of family albums, archives, and magazine covers from the contact sheets of a late Hong Kong itinerant photographer.