Touring the countryside, Snipplet was struck with the undaunted spirit of the people, even though they lived in hopeless poverty.

I must tell you in all candor that I have never seen such hopeless poverty in my own country or anywhere else, never.

He often used the verismo style to describes the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria.

Once the planter wealth of the Delta produced the state's aristocracy and the mountains were the preserve of hopeless poverty.

During the Depression the unshaved jowl was the symbol of poverty too hopeless to afford a razor blade.

But unlike the millions of Indians who live in hopeless poverty, England's highly paid cricketers will have the best accommodation and hospitality available.

The smell of hopeless doomed poverty.

How much of this heat and dirt and hopeless poverty do you want, anyway?

He told an audience in St. Louis, this month that his administration had accepted its global duties to fight "disease, and starvation, and hopeless poverty."

As in Galicia, the lowness of the general standards concealed a hopeless poverty.