How To Use Hardscrabble In A Sentence
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In a sense, Nuñez lives his life on a border, one foot planted in hardscrabble reality, the other in the aspirations of the upper middle class.
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Appearing in April, "American Letters: 1927-1947" Polity, 252 pages, $25 , a collection of the Pollock family correspondence, bears witness to the hardscrabble reality of the artist's upbringing amid boxcars and barren homesteads—the incubator of his creative vision.
A Painter in Her Own Right
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But there have always been kids from hardscrabble backgrounds who show academic promise - by nature, by chance, or thanks to the special efforts of parents or other adults.
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To make their case, Messrs. Gerzema and D 'Antonio draw on social-science data and their own reporting, relating anecdotes from burned-out Detroit, hardscrabble Texas, rural New England and hip Los Angeles.
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Villaraigosa had a hardscrabble youth before turning into an activist for the teachers union and the ACLU.
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And at age 29, after seven hardscrabble years as a professional triathlete, Radkewich fully understands his PR responsibilities.
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Traveling through this rocky, hardscrabble land, one wonders how the inhabitants have sustained themselves for thousands of years and marvels at the fact that this part of Mexico is the place where corn was first cultivated from a wild grain that grew in the valleys between steep, cactus-strewn mountainsides.
A yearly culinary ritual: La matanza
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And while today's Yorba Linda is a small town set amid the sprawl of Orange County, the humble home itself still speaks of the Nixon family's rural, hardscrabble life.
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McCarty asked her why she wanted to work in a hardscrabble neighborhood when she could earn far more in a comfortable suburb.
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In his prosperous days Daniel Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist-mill at Hardscrabble and, although these were mortgaged heavily, he hoped to weather the financial storm and through them to build up again his fallen fortunes.
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Hardscrabble Pimas still live in scattered, remote shacks, but in town there are brand-new pickups and ATVs, and mansions going up with three-car garages and crenelated castle motifs.
Brother-in-arms
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The evening was awash in hardscrabble spectacle, bathed in the light of a milk-dipped Oreo cookie, with costumes that remind us that all cats don't look the same and movement, songs, and dance that dissect the particulars of the kit-cat psyche and aesthetic.
James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West
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Now Mr. Dubus chronicles the desperation of his own hardscrabble upbringing in the post-industrial mill towns of Massachusetts, where he brawled away his youth before he realized that a well-turned sentence offered more satisfaction than a cleanly landed right cross.
Bareknuckle Beginnings
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Francisco de Orellana was born around 1511 to a prominent family in the hardscrabble region of Spain known as Extremadura, home to a flotilla of other explorers, including Hernán Cortés, Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Incas.
Escaping The Rainforest
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He remembered his own hardscrabble youth in Texas and vowed that the poor armadillos he grew up with would have a fighting chance at the American Dream if he could have any say in the matter.
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During the job interview, Patricia McCarty asked her why she wanted to work in a hardscrabble neighborhood when she could earn far more in a comfortable suburb.
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His disdain is like that of a hardscrabble kid from the projects who works for years to get into Yale - only to watch someone else sail in because his daddy is a rich donor.
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It was a hardscrabble hillside farm, a few cattle lipping silage behind a single strand of high-tensile wire.
The Dirty Life
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Brenton Maart, who is working on a public art campaign about AIDS prevention in the rural province of Mpumalanga, contributes five pictures of hardscrabble countryside where poverty and global technology meet.
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Through the lens of history the emaciated prisoners look barely capable of smiling, but had the Nazi narrative prevailed, the same shot might now suggest weathered pioneers determined to make a life under hardscrabble conditions.
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His father moved to London in 1924 from the hardscrabble western county of Roscommon in search of work.
Irish Remedy for Hard Times: Leaving
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Rather than leaning on his appealingly gruff Neil Diamond pipes to articulate personal stories of drunkenness and hardscrabble redemption, Bachmann takes a more imaginative approach here.
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the sharecropper's hardscrabble life
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The hardscrabble, bare-knuckle fight for power is the primitive pulse that runs through his latest novel, The Eagle's Throne.
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Pregnancy has the further effect of burnishing Demi's biography: It makes her hardscrabble childhood seem more poignant.
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McCarty asked her why she wanted to work in a hardscrabble neighborhood when she could earn far more in a comfortable suburb.
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On a cold blustery March day in 1839, when she was nineteen, Susan moved with her family two miles down the Battenkill to the little settlement of Hardscrabble, later called Center Falls, where her father owned a satinet factory and grist mill, built in more prosperous times.
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
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Grasso's hardscrabble early life has, if anything, burnished his reputation on the trading floor - a blue-collar stronghold where college degrees are strictly optional.
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The residents' hardscrabble backgrounds vary greatly, but Beckvold said the women seldom pass judgment.
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Many people in the audience were skeptical, because their experience has been that it's a hardscrabble existence.
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He's been through hard times: his hardscrabble childhood on the veld would make David Copperfield's seem cosseted by comparison.
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Here came the subsistence farmers, whose hardscrabble plots had borne little during this dry year.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Edwards, a wealthy trial lawyer first elected to the Senate in 1998, has built his candidacy around the belief that his hardscrabble upbringing uniquely equips him to understand the struggles of Democratic voters.
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Most of them struggle just to lead a hardscrabble life.
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Reading itself, which "loomed for a Shillington child as an immense, remote, menacing, and glamorous metropolis," is a remarkably recognizable Brewer, with its depiction over the Rabbit series offering a nearly perfect rendering of the actual city's respectable past, attempts at renewal and hardscrabble present.
Keystone to Updike's Imagination
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Today the Jacksons are so deeply associated with the showbiz slickness of Southern California, it's easy to forget their hardscrabble Rust Belt roots.
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As a golden boy, first in his class at West Point, and a Rhodes Scholar, he stood apart from the hardscrabble world of the combat arms.
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He uses their millions to advertise his hardscrabble origins and oneness with the masses.
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Tim's slowed up his release schedule the past few years, and others have gone out and done the hardscrabble archival work that he, and he alone, once undertook.
