Sentences with phrase «nearly illiterate»

Vanessa Lutz is a nearly illiterate, poor, and troubled California teenager with a really awful back story which includes all kinds of abuse and criminal behavior.

Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon), a nearly illiterate firebug and serial shoplifter, desperately clings to normalcy even though her mother turns tricks, does drugs, and manages to ignore the fact that the girl's stepfather Michael T. Weiss has been abusing her for years.

Professor Espada takes pride in teaching nearly illiterate men to read, in counseling younger inmates, and in helping others work through their cases in the library.

Bob is nearly illiterate and dumb as a box of hair.

Nearly illiterate evangelists pick it up quickly if they are frequent readers of the KJV.

Well, you can choose to side with an iron age mythical character created by scientifically ignorant nearly illiterate nomads.

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«There was a point, he told me, where after spending nearly $ 200,000, he felt like, «I am completely illiterate in something that I have so many ideas in, in an area that is the future, and in an area where if I want to continue building things then I need to be able to speak the language,»» Poonawala said.

Nearly a third of D.C. residents tested as functionally illiterate.