VISITORS to Japan rarely encounter the usual markers of privation.
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The trip, aboard the luxury liner the Aquitania, was no privation.
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The family was not exactly poor, but there was some privation.
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Those at home are preoccupied with their own shortages and privation.
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She was not stimulated by the proximity of violence and privation.
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Widespread privation Oh was born into a relatively well-off military family.
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There is potential here for a meditation on how privation feeds bigotry.
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They survived largely because Ausma withstood grueling physical labor and dreadful privation.
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Someone — a visionary — experiences or observes a material privation that prompts an epiphany.
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Privation joined me to them, even if mine was self-imposed and temporary.
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Mr. Ryan has long championed new policies to lift poor Americans out of privation.
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Economic privation does not explain why so many working-class whites chose Mr Trump.
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This is a city of privation and suspicion, but the commute must go on.
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It is jarring to resurface at show's end, from harrowing privation into cushy Chelsea.
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To survive years of privation, his peculiar family has learned to move as one.
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Venezuelans are suffering privation previously unheard of in what was once South America's richest country.
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In some places the wall is made of excess, in others it's made of privation.
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Borscht at Kryjivka, generously stocked with pork and fortifying vegetables, gives no hint of wartime privation.
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Some ordinary Cubans resent exiles for supporting the American embargo, which has contributed to their privation.
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Nicaragua is among the Western Hemisphere's poorest countries, and the prospect of greater privation inspired outrage.
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While butter meant "freedom and choice," margarine was associated with "privation and mean living," Levene wrote.
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I notice the words live on his tongue: exile, privation, flowing, rise, mystical, in a sensitized line.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union brought great privation to Cuba.
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Life spent hunting and gathering, while occasionally trying, was not a tale of constant toil and privation.
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A loss, that is, for dystopian Venezuela, where every day the population plumbs new depths of privation.
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To increase the rigors of throwback privation, he chose an ancient, heavy East German bicycle, the MIFA.
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She was new to Kabul and, I sensed, typically stimulated by the proximity of violence and privation.
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But like all sports, boxing is not a contest of privation, no matter how bleak its participants' pasts.
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Her belongings told a story of privation and sorrow; their sheer mass was a bulwark against future hardship.
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Khan's childhood would have been marked by privation and conflict—if he had any childhood to speak of.
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The threat of porky privation does not go unnoticed on social media, where #baconshortage2017 started to trend Wednesday morning.
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Something of the privation and the will of the Brontës, their radically internalized femininity, belongs also to Celia Paul.
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This is a story of an age of privation and separation, in which homes are lost and families riven.
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But they also document hunger and privation in a prison camp for dissidents' wives and children where Astana now stands.
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To a large degree, it was this all-inclusive, hands-on approach that defined the college — that and sheer privation.
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We're the startups that use trendy empowerment memes to excuse, even valorize, new forms of privation and indignity for contracted workers.
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They want to believe that, in these years of privation and difficulty after the potato famine, they're witnessing a genuine miracle.
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Despite years of financial privation, Fidel, who was approaching ninety, insisted that isolation was preferable to engagement with a longtime enemy.
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It's memory, taste, a history of shared privation and loss — an ancestral call that survives the rise and fall of regimes.
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For regular Greeks battered by years of privation and hardship, however, the government's efforts to appeal to investors have little meaning.
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The desire to demonize, attack and exclude is, without doubt, fueled by economic privation and rapid technological, social and climatic change.
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Some athletes have begun to eschew fluids during hot weather workouts, in hopes that the privation might somehow make them stronger.
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To continue paying its debts, and prevent privation from becoming mass starvation, the government has had to raise cash through creative transactions.
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The result is an artfully constructed account of the privation that persists alongside the surge of prosperity brought to India by globalization.
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Djokovic has shown remarkable resilience and drive, spurred by the memories of growing up in the midst of conflict, privation and uncertainty.
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Born in 1919 in Bronxville, New York, the well-educated Ferlinghetti was raised in a milieu that was equal parts privilege and privation.
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Yet the nature of the privation and chauvinism that have attracted millions to him, including working-class white men especially, are often misunderstood.
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The Vatican statement said the tribunal had imposed "the penalties of privation of office and prohibition of residence in the Archdiocese of Guam".
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Jackson Heights and, by extension, New York City is a microcosm for the country: a land of opportunity and despair, privilege and privation.
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In a country ravaged by years of privation and death, the Winstons' brief tenure — fueled by black-market food and liquor — was distasteful.
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His monotonous worker-bee routine, state of privation and lack of social life made it difficult for Mr. Jones to create compelling visuals.
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Most damagingly, putting the relationship with Cuba back on a confrontational track would all but certainly subject Cubans to greater repression and privation.
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Funny that existentialism doesn't seem such a downer anymore, now that the omnipresent threat to our humanity is not material privation but informational excess.
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The wage-based economy, on the other hand, fostered dependence, powerlessness and the privation that comes with depending on the boom-and-bust cycle.
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Finally, the promise of expanded trade is that people can stop doing things at which they are comparatively hopeless: sparing them frustration or indeed privation.
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Philip and Elizabeth experienced the end of the Second World War as children, which means they knew hunger and privation ways that Americans couldn't conceive.
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Explanations have drawn on culture (the self-discipline of Confucianism), history (memories of privation) and public policy (flimsy social safety-nets forcing people to save).
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The monarchy fell; an Islamic Republic replaced it, with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as its leader, and for a decade Iran convulsed with violence and privation.
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The world portrayed in "Jitney" is a self-contained microcosm, shaped by privation, obstruction and a make-do resourcefulness that becomes its own art form.
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He envisioned not a savior swooping down from the elite, but thinkers sharing an experience of economic privation, translated into both an intellectual and social struggle.
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For those who suffered more than two years of extreme violence and privation under Islamic State, no punishment is too severe for people who joined them.
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She grew up amid the widespread privation in Georgia that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union: "no electricity, no water, no food, nothing," she recalled.
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Those include the privation in some of the country's poorest big-city neighborhoods, where incomes, and life expectancy, are stunningly lower than in Baltimore's prosperous districts.
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But they're not meant to further narrative in the sense of a conventional musical, but to create an emotional atmosphere — privation and rudderlessness during the Depression.
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In 1933, before Florence hardens herself to a life of privation and blind fealty, her Russian boyfriend warns her against devoting her life to a cause.
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Dickey's comparison commits the fallacy of relative privation, whereby one thing isn't bad because there are other bad things in the world that are worse by comparison.
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And Amirpour capably brings home the poverty and privation of desperate scavengers; cannibalism in this environment actually seems sensible, given the limited alternatives and the demanding conditions.
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It is part of Booth's point, I think, that when money is as elusive as it is for these people, character is indeed primarily defined by privation.
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HAVANA — For Lisset Felipe, privation is a standard facet of Cuban life, a struggle shared by nearly all, whether they're enduring blackouts or hunting for toilet paper.
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But apparently some athletes, especially in team sports, have begun to eschew fluids during hot weather workouts, in hopes that the privation might somehow make them stronger.
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Violence and privation has been compounded by an Ebola outbreak that has led to 505 cases of the disease, including 296 deaths, in Ituri and North Kivu Province.
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Things are now so bad that McDonald's has stopped selling Big Macs because it cannot get the buns (a privation for the few Venezuelans who can afford them).
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Meanwhile, poor Nina Krilova (Annet Mahendru) remains the show's most powerful reminder of the realities of Soviet Russia – the interrogations, the terror, the privation, the Gulag and all that.
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On the other hand, his father and his grandfather and he have spent three generations enormous privation, huge slave labor camps, tremendous amount of pain building nuclear weapons and missiles.
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Just the third-world glaze of sweat and privation you see everywhere in this richly endowed land of economic imbalance, an atmosphere the film, Faraday Okoro's feature debut, captures expertly.
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Qatar has in recent years funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into relief projects in Gaza, viewing the aid as a way to stave off privation and fighting with Israel.
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Perhaps he was disturbed by the imagined inhumanity of a world without struggle or privation — by the possibility that it might lack the romantic charms of human failure and frailty.
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Qatar has in recent years funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into relief projects in Hamas-controlled Gaza, which it views as helping stave off privation and fighting with Israel.
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Not since World War I, when the combination of wartime privation, natural disaster, and naval blockades led to the Great Famine of 1915-1918 have so many faced such hunger.
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UNRWA, by its mandate, must regard all people who qualify for its assistance based on their place of residence, original privation due to loss of home and livelihood, and current material conditions.
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"Snowpiercer," which was based on a graphic novel, is about the last human survivors of a climate change experiment gone catastrophically wrong, living in Dickensian privation on a socially stratified, perpetual-motion train.
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Photograph by Jamie Hawkesworth for The New Yorker Heizer's "Double Negative" and Smithson's "Spiral Jetty"—one a privation, the other an accretion—form an essential pair in the canon of twentieth-century sculpture.
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Grauerholz's photo series, Privation (2002) encompasses scans of the front cover and spines of books that survived a fire that destroyed her 25-year-old library; here, the scanner performs as a camera.
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A people who have endured 60 years of privation over the course of 11 presidential administrations in defense of national sovereignty and self-determination will not likely acquiesce to demands of a 12th administration.
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And though the Iranian public is bending under the strain of economic privation, it hasn't lost the ability to mock the leaders once the detailed evidence of their greed and cupidity is made known.
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Yan was born in Henan province in 1958, and his childhood coincided with the worst years of the Great Leap Forward, when China's rush toward modernity thrust millions into biblical-level famine and privation.
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That air of privation, as much emotional as material, pervades the Cork, Ireland, of the mid-1990s in Enda Walsh's "Disco Pigs," which has been given a smashing 20th-anniversary revival at Trafalgar Studios.
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They said Abu Maitham joined Islamic State militants who ruled over hundreds of towns and villages like Rfaila for more than two years, subjecting the local population to a life of violence and privation.
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But again and again, Bernie brought his answers back to economics: the role of Wall Street and big money in politics; the plight of poor Americans; the impact of material privation on crime and addiction.
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Yes, "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church" — but that was in the premodern, not-yet-disenchanted world, in which superstition bred zealotry and privation made every civilizational encounter zero-sum.
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Whether depicting privation, as in Gordon Parks's indelible essay of a struggling Harlem family, or privilege, as in the high society portraits of Tina Barney, the most powerful images of American money rely on trust.
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At the same time it might well be, as some of his critics think, that the working class's social crisis is mostly or all cultural, a form of late-modern anomie detached from material privation.
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Highlighting a perceived threat from abroad is also a favorite tool the North Korean government uses to ensure internal cohesion in an impoverished country that has experienced enormous privation, including devastating famine and continuing pervasive hunger.
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Ms. Maiolino was born in 1942 in Calabria, the less developed south of Italy, and early memories of wartime privation, as well as the burdens of immigration and leaving one's native tongue, suffuse her later art.
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Your condition resembles a state of nature, except without the threat of privation or predation: There are perfectly safe sandwiches, apples in reasonable shape and, frequently, a store featuring a wide range of Tom Ford fragrances.
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The acquisition of modern planes is an important achievement for President Hassan Rouhani, who pledged when elected three years ago that he would negotiate a nuclear deal to help alleviate the economic privation caused by sanctions.
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These visitors find a population ready and willing to engage with its neighbors, a fiercely independent and entrepreneurial spirit born out of privation and an insistent desire to interact with Americans and to improve a stagnated relationship.
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There were more aid agencies, more services, and better facilities across the maritime border than there were in Congo, but the privation was still profound and the stories of survivors echoed what I'd heard across the lake.
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Two years ago, in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting, he launched the My Brother's Keeper initiative as a bulwark against the risks of economic privation and violence that face black families, and black men in particular.
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He cares so much about the creation of history and myth, so he knows full well that a time like the Long Night, thanks to widespread death and privation, would probably lack reliable records of what "actually" happened.
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Crucially, these songs make a point not just of privation proper but of worry and insecurity—including "Aleppo," which begins "Bombs are falling/In the name of peace" and then describes the everyday wretchedness of the lives still braving the ruins.
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Diski, who had been shunted between various institutions since birth, who knew too well "the fearful feeling of privation when your time as part of a system runs out," was terrified of being kicked out of this new system as well.
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The world's Netanyahus are becoming synonymous with their nations' laws; its Modis are bludgeoning their populaces into homogeneity; worldwide, migrants fleeing violence and privation are being used as political advertisements—and, in some cases, as literal gun fodder—for xenophobic forces.
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The rage and heartbreak are never unclear: Putinism restricts common dignity to those with money and power, and even they serve at the pleasure of one man; the ordinary person has no choice but to humiliate himself or suffer privation, or worse.
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And perhaps Mill thought the same is true for adults — that facing a degree of "struggle and privation" in life is essential to happiness, because it provides us with a vivid reminder of how lucky we are when we have it good.
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The abruptness of the descent — and the near-lockdown of major cities — is unheard-of in advanced economies, more akin to wartime privation than to the downturn that accompanied the financial crisis more than a decade ago, or even the Great Depression.
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The abruptness of the descent — and the near-lockdown of major cities — is unheard-of in advanced economies, more akin to wartime privation than to the downturn that accompanied the financial crisis more than a decade ago, or even the Great Depression.
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These are games about the desperation and privation of everyday life 20 years after the end of the old civilization, less concerned with apocalyptic imagery in and of itself and more with the particularly bleak and isolated way of life that's resulted from it.
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Despite privation and a lack of means to express to each other the staggering uncertainty of their situation, they nonetheless exchange talismanic gifts (the thimble) and are capable of loyalty and protectiveness that evince a humanity greater than any shown to them by society.
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Modeled after the actions leftist groups like Greenpeace have taken to obstruct whaling ships and nuclear submarines, this new form of anti-immigrant protest isn't merely symbolic; it could have literal life-or-death consequences for people fleeing war zones, political chaos, and economic privation.
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Cartier-Bresson, who had escaped from a German prison camp during the war, was a master at that; in a washed-out shot here from 1951, a lone woman crossing the street in London manages to convey the whole of the Blitz and postwar privation.
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And while the bulk of those fleeing for Europe through Turkey were Syrians escaping the persecution and sectarian violence of the civil war, those leaving through Libya are a more heterogeneous group, including many West Africans escaping privation, who may not qualify for asylum.
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Here is the beginning of "The Ruins of Nostalgia 9": For a long time we had listened to the stories of those who had lived in countries that no longer existed, and the stories had been exciting—stories of privation, of deprivation, of limits, of lack.
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Symbols of privation can create the illusion of a powerless citizenry, something that Flint residents have been combating out of anger and necessity: When the state offered little to no resolution, locals distributed shipments of donated water (some from private corporations), organized protests, and lobbied Snyder's administration and the EPA.
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For the sake of the metaphor, it's enough to say that Red and Adelaide both live in the same America, where the power structure inherently creates economic splits, and indifferently gifts some people with wealth and comfort, while others are handed privation through no specific faults or choices of their own.
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As atrocious as Japan's colonial rule was, had the Kim dynasty, over the past 85033 years, followed Japanese examples in Korea, it may have allowed for any the following: Basic freedoms during the colonial era were trampled upon, and life for most Koreans was marked by extreme economic privation and political repression.
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It also joins many of the currents of the 20th century: the ebb and flow from wartime privation to excess back to austerity; the progress of gay visibility and the trauma of the AIDS crisis; the shaking off of dress codes and then (to Nutter's sometime chagrin) the irrevocable casualization of the wardrobe.
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Some of the neighborhoods with the highest rates of increased privation are those where the external impulse to transform and refurbish has been the most dramatic (Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens), and those where the displaced have then been exiled (Canarsie, East Flatbush, Brownsville, Ocean Hill), driving up rents, in a reverberative effect.
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"We are seeing in our survey data, especially among vulnerable populations such as ethnic and racial minorities, non-trivial rates of terrible privation, including losing a home or having the utilities turned off," said Dr. Reshma Jagsi, director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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The new commissioner, Darryl De Sousa, 53, inherits a long list of problems that have proved intractable for predecessors, including a near-total lack of trust of the police in many neighborhoods and stunning levels of privation along the city's most violent streets, even as employment rates have improved and areas like the Inner Harbor have become gleaming tourist destinations.
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Over the centuries, it has been modified, damaged and repaired — but always returned to full working order, even after taking a fusillade from German soldiers in World War II. Its longevity has inspired a number of myths surrounding its operation, including at least one that predicts doom: When the clock stops running, the legend goes, the Czech land will be thrown into war and privation.
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But virtually no one is focused on the cascade of privation, depression, and death that will come as indirect effects of the virus's progress: patients with other afflictions who will die as Covid-19 victims take up ICU space, equipment, and personnel; healthy delivery drivers who fall asleep at the wheel covering shifts for a sick colleague or picking up extra work to cover a shortfall at home.
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On this particular point, Debord is unrelenting, arguing that capitalism — having already served our most basic survival needs (the means to food, shelter, etc.) — relies on fabricating new desires and distractions in order to propagate itself and maintain its oppression over the working classes: The new privation is not far removed from the old penury since it requires most men to participate as wage workers in the endless pursuit of […] attainment … everyone knows he must submit or die.
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Instead, Mill tells us that his crisis was born in a concern about whether happiness is really possible in the perfect world he sought to achieve — a world without struggle: [T]he question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a state of physical comfort, the pleasures of life, being no longer kept up by struggle and privation, would cease to be pleasures.
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