destitution

How To Use destitution In A Sentence

• The 19th-century Church provided elementary education in areas of great destitution where no other option was available. Times, Sunday Times
• Messiah, his seductive arts and successes, the mass hysteria around him, his fall and the breaking up of illusions in destitution and new illusion, or in penance and purity. Isaac Bashevis Singer - Biography
• When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief. XVI. Essays. New England Reformers. A Lecture Read before the Society in Amory Hall on Sunday, March 3, 1844
• Simply put, his wild imagination and inexhaustible creative energy might have been the only consolations for a life that seemed destined for meek destitution from the start.
• Yes, I says, I would see myself telling you, wouldn't I and you blabbing it the next time a lot of them church women meets at our house and some old church deacon getting hold of it and getting rich off of it and me wandering the streets in destitution with the rain running down often my beard and the end of my nose because you and the children cast me into the street. Chapter Eight: The Old Soak's History -- More Evils of Prohibition
• Their philanthropy saved people from destitution. Times, Sunday Times
• If in two months stories of starvation and destitution continue to emerge out of Aceh, severe criticism will rain down on the government.
• In this watershed sequence, the oblique angles and edgy camerawork signal the presence of Jeffrey's gaze as his invisible aura surrounds Susan in her destitution.
• But he added: 'The basic safety net to guarantee people would not be left in hunger or destitution has been torn apart. The Sun
• We know nothing of course, but we do not remotely know even this, and mere assertion in no way ameliorates our destitution.