"childhood" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I asked him if he would ever write about darker subjects, like his poverty-stricken childhood (the Senator once worked as a janitor), or about controversies in his public career.
- The Bush campaign release ridiculed Mr. Dole for telling audiences about his poverty-stricken childhood in Kansas.
- Her negative attitudes were the result of a harsh life: a sickly, poverty-stricken childhood, the horrors of the war, the struggle to bring up two children and look after an invalid husband.
- In the course of the talk, Barrie recalls his poverty-stricken childhood, his mother whom he revered and other individuals and poignant biographical events that shaped his career.
- There has even been some skepticism that Frank McCourt could possibly have recalled all the heartbreaking conversations and excruciating detail of his poverty-stricken Irish childhood in his memoir, "Angela's Ashes" (Scribner).
- Bailey chronicled Trick's poverty-stricken childhood, crime-laden adolescence and eventual incarceration for drug trafficking, leading to his redemption and fame against the backdrop of Miami.
- Ms. Hutton's electric presence in films like "The Fleet's In" and Preston Sturges's "Miracle of Morgan's Creek" masked emotional problems rooted in a poverty-stricken childhood.
- Huseyin Kenan is a sensitive and talented musician who has struggled to overcome the emotional pain of a difficult and poverty-stricken childhood, and the grudging charity of his relatives.
- An old vaudeville actor, Benny Lomansky, recalls his poverty-stricken childhood and the gossip around the tenement stoop, reliving the struggles and triumphs of his family and neighbors.
- What he's really trying to do with his humor, Mr. Buchwald says, is get even for a dark, poverty-stricken childhood.
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