privation

How To Use privation In A Sentence

• Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm 
• Racism is a tragedy beyond socioeconomic deprivation; it speaks of the total deprivation of the church today.
• Punters and racegoers have felt only a sense of deprivation through the snow and ice of recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
• She goes from being a Southern belle, who's never been able to do anything practical, to someone who learns to survive under the most terrible circumstances of war and deprivation.
• The security services used harsh methods of sensory deprivation against prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
• This book is an unremitting account of misery, privation, and pointlessness in a world of dun landscapes, tormenting insects, malnutrition, and cultural stagnancy.
• He points out that where such extreme early deprivation is followed by nurturant care there is some improvement in speech, intelligence and social skills.
• But the painted kerbing and the gaily-coloured banners can't disguise the extent of the social and educational deprivation of this community.
• Crews endure loneliness, sensory deprivation, disorientating microgravity and the anxiety of knowing the vacuum of space is kept from them by an aluminium hull just a few millimetres thick.
• The only answer to the lies of the neo-fascists is to remove the causes of deprivation and environmental neglect by creating educational and job opportunities on the neglected estates and inner-cities.