| 单词 | beggar |
| 例句 | ‘Hippias’s bitterness. My ambition. And you, Iros. What has drawn you here? What does a beggar most desire? Perhaps a home?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "You'll have to sit somewheres else. No one gives aught to a beggar with well-dressed friends." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Nobody except beggars, derelicts and the police-custody dead were cremated there. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat like beggars at the side of the road, calling out for help, or for a mouthful of water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was watching with an amused look, and suddenly Minli saw that the beggar wasn’t really that old at all. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She poured the honey wine for both of us, drinking hers in a series of dainty sips from a silver beggar’s cup hardly bigger than a thimble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the alleys and wine sinks of Pentos, they called her brother "the beggar king." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I thought dead bodies made you squeamish, like when we found that old beggar who froze to death.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She calls us in from the lane and when we sit at the table it’s hard for me to look at my mother the beggar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They headed up Church Street, a wide avenue crowded with businessmen in top hats and beggars and fancy ladies in wide skirts. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “You want a taste of the stick too, you little beggar?” the man sneered, spitting drops of saliva. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z "Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was midday, and pushcart vendors and beggars crammed the sidewalks of the Levee District. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I remembered beggars in the old days too—Baba always carried an extra handful of Afghani bills in his pocket just for them; I’d never seen him deny a peddler. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His clothing in tatters, his shoes cracked, the old knapsack on his shoulder his only luggage, he looked like a beggar, but his bearing had a dignity that was in frank contradiction to his appearance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I began imagining myself a handless beggar in the market, unable to even use the bathroom. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They twitched like a beggar’s, he recalls — her fingertips drummed — weakly imploring, though her eyes had already closed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced at her clothes, which looked like the garments of a queen when she had them on, but now, hanging from their nails on the wall, seemed like the sad rags of a beggar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Welfare, they knew, was what people in this country got so they wouldn't turn into beggars like those outside La Catedral back home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “The big one’s simple. They’re a family of beggars. Where do you want to go, children?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Palms held out, in the beggar’s gesture, he received the bread and meat and put it down before him on his knapsack—lowly table!— then he fell to, devouring it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If he was an ungrateful beggar, he had to act like one. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z All along, she has been the fairy queen in beggar’s clothes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Come on, you lazy little beggar, and take some of that fat off.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Robert and his council of cravens and flatterers would beggar the realm if left unchecked ... or, worse, sell it to the Lannisters in pay-ment of their loans. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The swineherd later on will take me down the port-side trail—a beggar, by my looks, hangdog and old. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The city filled with beggars, and then with thieves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The withered gardens were a blight, and beggars lay as though dead, collecting coins on the hollows of their closed eyes, and there were altogether too many ruins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z By suppertime, Shirley looked like the beggars who waited by the servants’ gate for scraps from the clan table. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The beggars went back to the church steps, the stragglers moved off, and the neighbors departed so that the public shaming of Kino would not be in their eyes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Quickly, the beggar shook off Minli from his arm and began to run. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z A beggar shuffled in front of it, then dove out of the way as a dark purple stegosaurus trundled by, nearly trampling him, bags of mail and packages flapping at its flanks. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Even across the length of the crowded hall, Viserys should have been conspicuous with his pale skin, silvery hair, and beggar's rags, but she did not see him anywhere. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At first I thought he was a simple beggar, but then I saw he was dragging a small creature by its arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘You expect me to believe Gaia sent you - a beggar - to check up on us?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I was a beggar queen and you were Xaro of the Thirteen, Dany thought, and all you wanted were my dragons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then up the block where the beggars sat. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned why beggars stay Waterside, and I learned that no matter what the church might tell you, Midwinter is a time for demons. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A ragged, legless beggar sat by the gate. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I have sinned and must atone, must parade my shame before the eyes of every beggar in the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I am still a Samana, he thought, still an ascetic and a beggar. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “A lie. I know you. You are that blind beggar girl.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t be so happy if he knew he was the son of a beggar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I had fled in terror from the old beggar’s body because it had been a reminder of my own mortality. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As Minli watched the beggar’s hands outstretched and shaking with hunger, she felt a sharp pang inside her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung had never had a beggar ask of him before, nor had any ever called him teacher. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z While I normally did not give to African beggars, I felt the urge to give this woman money. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The beggars outside the gates of Mohammed’s family home did not move when they saw Olanna. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The beggar stared at the note, then stood up and waved after us, clapping and jumping. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He plucked a beggar’s lice—endemic in West Virginia—off his pants leg and inspected the tiny fuzzy seed that hitched rides on anything or anybody who walked through the woods. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I had turned into a beggar girl, lost without my family. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z From the other beggars I hear stories about plague victims, which areas the police seem most nervous about, and which have started to recover. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Not until he came as a friend and equal—not as a beggar. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When Eumaeus came back he found the old beggar he had left. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I have become the most splendid beggar in the'world, but a beggar all the same. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I picked my way through the dwindling crowd, the lame beggars dressed in layers of tattered rags, the vendors with rugs on their shoulders, the cloth merchants and butchers closing shop for the day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t, my father explained, or you’d be mobbed by beggars. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “That crab die. Even a beggar don’t want it.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Gone, too, were the beggars and homeless children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The beggar returned the pan, still wet from being washed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He slowed down on Ogui Road to fling some crisp naira notes at a beggar sprawled by the roadside, near some children hawking peeled oranges. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z My mother is a beggar now and if anyone from the lane or my school sees her the family will be disgraced entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “She thought your dad was a beggar asking for free food. What he should have said was ‘sal,’ which is the word for uncooked rice.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She was dressed like a beggar girl and stood holding a chicken. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z So changed, he looked as never before upon the Akhaian beachhead, but like a beggar, merged in the townspeople; and no one there remarked him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, pick my peas! A white woman as a maid and a beggar! Must not be no slaves from where she come from,” Teenie commented. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The prosperous merchants and busy tradesmen had disappeared, and in their place were coarse women and menacing men, bands of noisy, grimy children and scores of beggars. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I felt it was what was to be expected, and what could not be helped: an ordinary beggar is frequently an object of suspicion; a well-dressed beggar inevitably so. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The child beggar ran along, his doe-eyed expression more theatrical, his motions frantic: bringing his hand to his mouth again and again, fingertips pursed together. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Even I have never met with the emperor! How would two little beggars like you meet with him?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z ‘A merry troop of fools we shall look! Will Haldir lead us all on a string, like many blind beggars with one dog? But I will be content, if only Legolas here shares my blindness.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Everything from beggar’s rags to rich silks and velvets could be found there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She had never seen anyone beg for food in America, but over there if she had given a beggar food, it would not have made a whit of difference. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Minli heard him say, and she peeked up to see the king looking at her with the same amused expression he’d had as a beggar watching the people eat the peaches. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z That young man had noticed nothing until instead of the old beggar a majestic-looking person returned to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Four basebom churls. A beggar’s offering. Scum like that will never stop the snow. She might.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A few beggars lay under the great tympanum of Notre Dame’s doorway. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The ghosts probably found this even more amusing than two beggars fighting to the death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Number one down was a word for beggar, beginning with m and nine letters long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z My style is too precise for a simple street beggar. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They were ashamed of sitting on the sidewalk, people mistaking them for beggars. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And Isengard has been destroyed, and your precious master is a beggar in the wilderness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Only the . . . is allowed to wear a golden dragon . . . you must be . . . you must be . . .” “Where’s that beggar?! ” a loud angry shout cut through the chaos. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He went to the window and watched the beggars. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A beggar woman crying for money to bury her dead baby. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When beggars came to the temple from down the mountain, Father Cham received them as if they were visiting nobles, feeding them and chatting with them for long hours. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “That proves you must have been an honest and faithful servant. I will say so much for you, though you have had the incivility to call me a beggar.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It was a reflex action from my years as a beggar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In his pocket was a roll of cash that he quickly dispersed to beggars, an act that Farmer didn’t find objectionable but which he nonetheless deemed insufficient. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “This little beggar hasn’t forgotten me, has he?” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z More than once, hungry beggars attempted to grab a handful of rice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z So I gave her an American dollar and she looked at it and said, “Syaujye”—Miss—“we are in America now. Even a beggar can starve on this dollar.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking back to the truck, neither one of us commented about what most non-Afghans would have seen as an improbable coincidence, that a beggar on the street would happen to know my mother. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Olanna stared at the beggars clumped around the walls of the palace, their bodies and begging bowls covered in flies. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We joined the line, filing past the beggars who shook their tin cups or waved their crude crutches and canes at us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Your fault I had to take a second job picking up those lawyers’ trash like some beggar. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “That’s right! How could you land up a beggar? Don’t listen to him!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Hastily, the beggar pushed back his sleeve, but the quick glance was enough for Minli to see that he wore a gold bracelet in the shape of a dragon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Each day at the shine stand we had the same kind of customers; each day we cooked food and ate on the sidewalk; each day we fed the beggar and the pigeons. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Every stroke of the quill leaves me a little poorer... or would, if I were not a beggar to begin with. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But all the rest gave alms, enough to fill the beggar’s pack with bread and roast meat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get away from here, you worthless beggar!” the vendor spat out. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Kings and sheep and whinnying horses and serving maids and beggar boys gathered together in the frosty imagined night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z ‘Get up, you idiot!’ he shouted to the other beggar, who had sat down on the ground; and he struck him with his staff. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I used to play out the beggar’s last moments over and over again in my head. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Marmalade kicked the chair out from one of the beggars at the big table and he toppled over. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When I look at my reflection in the lake, I realize that I look exactly like a street beggar now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Thank you,” the beggar said in a much stronger voice, and he bowed to the onlooking people. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I was used to seeing black beggars on the street, and it startled me to see a white one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The beggar’s gaze riveted to the food, his face crumpled as though he were about to weep and he hurried into the alley without answering. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "If I was not corrupted long since, growing up in Alsatia among thieves and beggars, then I must be incorruptible." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z What I couldn’t get over was that, like me, each one of those beggars had only one life to live. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "Just as the beggar's only difficulty about riding is that he has no horse." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z That was when she realized that all the sounds she normally associated with a city—the noise of wagon wheels and beggars and merchants hawking their wares—were absent here. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The four beggars in front of the church knew everything in the town. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Inside, I was weak and cowardly. I was too scared not to follow the commands of my masters. I beat the beggar.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Her legs were so impossibly thin, her clothes as tattered as the beggars in the Grin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I have to admit that we’d spoiled him rotten and turned him into a world-class beggar. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The day before yesterday I was still an unkempt beggar; yesterday I already kissed Kamala and soon I will be a merchant and have money and all those things which you value.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar’s choice. My lord had as well present us with a pack of wolves and ask which we’d like to tear our throats out.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I won’t go so she can talk to me as if I’m a beggar looking at her generations, when she knows I hunger for my own. No. I won’t go sit in her mother’s house.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Maybe she is a beggar girl,” said one of the men. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora kicked her beggar’s cup, the few coins flew into the hubbub, and she continued on her afternoon errand to fetch flour for her son’s birthday cake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “That’s basic psychology. You dress a beggar in fine clothes, people treat him like a noble, and he lives up to their expectations.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And it was quite a chase, or it would’ve been if the beggar had realized he was being followed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Nicolas spent a year as a beggar, following the path of the yogis, across the Himalayas, through Katmandu, along the Ganges, and on to Benares, all on foot. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Think of it; and a beggar, out of nowhere, strung it quick and made the needle shot!’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad says, You shouldn’t be picking up coal off the road like a common beggar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z "The crow is the raven's poor cousin. They are both beggars in black, hated and misunderstood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Ignore that wretched beggar bird, Jon, it's just had half my bacon." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He had seen kings and beggars walking the desert sands. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You wouldn’t speak with us. You treated us like beggars and thieves.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It gave her the posture of a beggar or praying mantis. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “He thinks this is China! As if there are beggars here!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When Minli finally reached the beggar, the tiny twig of the tree vanished underneath the pile of peach pits and the beggar was turning to leave. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “I will not come to my aunt a beggar. I will come to her a kinsman, with an army.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s walking down a road somewhere in the country, with his knapsack on his back, when these two tiny little children run after him, shouting, ‘Dear little beggar! Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Evening was falling, and the beggars were returning to the Cow’s Guts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And so Estraven received what they gave us, as a lord among lords or a beggar among beggars, a man among his own people. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “With all my heart, if you will be a brave St. Martin, stopping as you ride gallantly through the world to share your cloak with the beggar.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In the alleys, a few beggars sat around a fire and listened to a man without arms or legs tell a story. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In America do you knowl This part of the city didn’t actually belong to the Chinese, even though the beggars sat there, even though upper-class Chinese lived there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On Christmas Day 1860, Anthony dressed the runaways like beggars and escorted them aboard a southbound train. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The beggars’ camp fire had died down to embers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s strange to think that now we are the beggars, but instead of asking for alms, we’re asking for help so as not to lose our lives. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Even in front of Dad and Mother, he referred to us as blighters and beggars. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your friend dispenses good advice,” the old beggar chimed in. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And the other servants always gossiped about everyday sights they had seen in town: the back stoops of stores always blocked with the frozen bodies of beggars. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And it seemed to him he led an old outcast, a beggar man, leaning most painfully upon a stick, his poor cloak, all in tatters, looped about him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The missile of fur and teeth—once the beggar's hump—was Gwenforte, of course. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Stuart stood like a beggar, his hat in his hands. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the beggar children disappeared, and Alba noticed that the stray dogs and piles of garbage were gone too. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well lass,” replied a voice within, “give it her if she’s a beggar. T’ pig doesn’t want it.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I imagine he did not think I was a beggar, but only an eccentric sort of lady, who had taken a fancy to his brown loaf. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It was too early for the beggars to return and too soon for the drunks to get rowdy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Here, too, came the beggars after their day’s work in the wealthy suburbs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘I didn’t expect to see you here, Iros. But I suppose even a beggar can sue for retribution. Drink. Eat.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And the beggars were mostly children now, thin and grim-faced, some no older than five or six. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her writing wasn’t quite as clear, but beggars can’t be choosers. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The teeth in their sockets like dental molds, the crude tattoos etched in some homebrewed woad faded in the beggared sunlight. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The children who hounded us daily for money and food weren’t dim-witted beggars; they were accustomed to the distribution of excess, and couldn’t fathom why we held ourselves apart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s new magic in every sidewalk crack, in the traffic rush, in the lurch of beggars on the corner. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Pigs and naked children were everywhere underfoot, crippled beggars and cutpurses swarmed like roaches through the press. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When Jesus cured those crippled beggars, didn’t they always get up and dance off stage, jabbing their canes sideways and . waggling their top hats? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A pity I did not think of that before I became a beggar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With a desultory nod of his bored and sleepy head, the Level Crossing Divinity conjured up beggars with bandages, men with trays selling pieces of fresh coconut, parippu vadas on banana leaves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Once he took me to visit a hospital—ah, what an experience that was!—and often he took me to visit the poor, the beggars, to listen to them talk. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She says it’s rotten and full of white maggots but beggars can’t be choosers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “If it weren’t for me and your Older Sister, you’d probably have landed up a beggar.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But before he could even raise the sharp sword to whittle his life away, they found the beggar’s mind had already broken into a thousand pieces. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if we had been reduced to beggars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Like a tricky beggar he sat down plump, and dropped his stick. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There were fewer horses and camels to be seen, and a dearth of palanquins, but the streets teemed with children, beggars, and skinny dogs the odor of sand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “You’re always helping little beggars to our property!” screeched the other of them—the woman—as ornate gold pins in her hair shook. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The peasants would crown as emperor a farmer who knew the earth or a beggar who understood hunger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Siddhartha became impatient at losses, he lost his patience with slow-paying debtors, he was no longer kindhearted to beggars, he no longer had the desire to give gifts and loans to the poor. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But it worked for beggars too and helped to keep their heads free from fleas and lice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Word of it crept in among the nuns; the beggars in front of the church spoke of it, for they would be there to take the tithe of the first fruits of the luck. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z When Odysseus came home, disguised as a beggar, Iros thought the new guy was moving in on his territory. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "But there were soldiers loitering on the corner. I didn't think it was safe to walk past them, so I hid in an alley like a street beggar until they left." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps she thinks we are beggars, I thought. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why should I go running to my aunt as if I were a beggar? My claim is better than her own. Let her come to me ... in Westeros.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We are not beggars. We have come for our son Murugan, who works here.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I’d never have picked him for a relative. But beggars can’t be choosers—and happens I’m a beggar. It’s on to time to get ready to go to him.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A particularly persistent beggar began calling himself “Titanic Beggar.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A king can end up going through the guts of a beggar. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The beggar did indeed have a good eye. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For the present she would change him into an old beggar so that he could go everywhere unrecognized. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The beggar was wiping his face with a delicate white cloth and Minli saw again that he was not an old man at all. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “My mother said I mustn’t give money to beggars,” the girl rattled on. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then the father comes home, and apparently he loves beggars and pilgrims, too, and they all sit down to dinner. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z For example, after a night of drinking, she and Mark Antony often dressed as beggars. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z This time, they were chased away with a broom from a few houses and called beggars. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z You gave her things and then left her like a beggar on the street, and for what? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It was beggar, beggar, beggar, all the way down the aisle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Tanin’s gaze skimmed over beggar children and sailors, servants and merchants, messengers running this way and that in their black caps. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The beggar turned and slouched past whimpering: ‘Poor old Gríma! Poor old Gríma! Always beaten and cursed. How I hate him! I wish I could leave him!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As for the park itself, it was an American version of a Middle Eastern bazaar, with folk singers, storytellers, beggars, political dissidents, soapbox orators, and even the occasional snake charmer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “When the beggar had eaten it all, he was still hungry, so they gave him their own dinner.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As she walked down the aisle, the girls leaned towards her and whispered hissingly, “Beggar, beggar, beggar.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We snaked our way among the merchants and the beggars, wandered through narrow alleys cramped with rows of tiny, tightly packed stalls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The man says, I’m very sorry, but beggars can’t be choosers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was simply a day when people were more courteous, looked twice at a beggar in the street, remembered that love was a living thing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Kings die and beggars die; rich men and poor men die; old people die and young people die. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It means you’re at the end of your rope and maybe one level above tinkers, knackers and street beggars in general. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was so happy as I left for the bus stop that on the way I threw a beggar a few coins. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She says she knows all about teeth and bones and rickets but beggars can’t be choosers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Now be gone with you, pestilent little beggars! Go find pockets to pick somewhere else!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Stray dogs sniffed at the grime, and beggars wrapped in newspaper slept in the doorways. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They thought we were beggars without a home who lived in back of the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove through a village that was empty but for a few hollow-eyed beggars lurking in the abandoned market street. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He did not belong to the bright landscape, he should be standing on the steps of a gaunt cathedral, his cloak flung back, while a beggar at his feet scrambled for gold coins. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z This new voice belonged to an old beggar sitting barefoot on the steps of a bullet-scarred building. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He would have liked to say, “Certainly there must be tea leaves. Do you think we are beggars?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Within the hall the suitors, idly loafing after their meal, were in a mood to make fun of the miserable old beggar who entered, and Odysseus listened to all their mocking words with submissive patience. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Before five minutes went by, the beggar tossed a pebble at us to draw our attention and jerked his head down the street. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Well, maybe not a beggar,” put in Helen, comfortingly. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes in the winter when I walked past the beggars in Hankow, I would think of Peitaiho and be glad to know that it was in the same world. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew beggars couldn’t be choosers, as Mom liked to say, but I had to ask. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Then I would knock softly, a beggar’s knock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I had become an accomplished beggar and thief. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As they set off along the street, the beggars glimpsed Hermione. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Looking like a beggar evangelist in his torn black suit, he shuffled to an ash pile that had spilled from the cracked-open house and bent to gather a palm full of soot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “You are mistaken in supposing me a beggar. I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “What do you claim is not rightfully ours, beggar?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He’d sneak into cities disguised in ragged beggar’s clothes and hand out gold coins to kids living on the streets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “One day, when a beggar from a far-away land came to the old couple’s door, they fed him the last of their corn. Then their dry scraps of tortilla.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Baldwin jumped over the table and approached the beggar from behind. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The beggar is using the vendor’s peaches for his tree I Minli laughed to herself as she glanced at him through the fruit- eating crowd. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He is accustomed to people asking about the poverty, about the beggars and the heat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have to say it—those words I hate, the ones that make me feel like a beggar: free lunch. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The view of emaciated beggars and barefoot children lugging containers of water never changed much. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The beggar squinted thoughtfully, then shook his shaggy head. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z When I came to it after passing the beggars, I looked to my left and saw the American flag flying over the American consulate building. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was considering moving to a different street when I saw a boy run up to a younger beggar across the way. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the time of chivalric myth this would be the beggar who turns out to be a king’s son. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry was bent over like an old beggar and kept wiping his nose on his sleeve. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Don't be giving money to these beggars, sir,'' Gabriel said. “They are all rich. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The swineherd led him to the manor later in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken, propped on a stick. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I won’t let you turn my daughter into a street beggar!” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t like to wash a beggar’s sores either,” said Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In Isiolo or on top of a truck driving the endless miles up to Marsabit, I sometimes felt like a beggar. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dothraki .would respect him more if he looked less a beggar, she hoped, and per-haps he would forgive her for shaming him that day in the grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When I find a quiet alley to rest in, with a few other beggars already asleep in the garbage bins, I curl into a dark corner and click my microphone on. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We shouted, ‘Keep the royal bow from the beggar’s hands no matter how he begs!’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And for such a matter to be dismissed so quickly is just another way in which the already tenuous relationship beggars belief. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: Darling Nicky 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Herzog said: “Man is a god when he dreams, but a beggar when he reflects.” In conversation with Werner Herzog: 'Facts do not constitute truth' 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z At one point, Aaron looked and sounded like a beggar, his voice sounded like a screechy plea, not unlike Jimmy Swaggart when he was begging for forgiveness for his transgressions with those wicked temptress hookers. "American Idol" recap: Crystal Bowersox saves 2010-04-21T13:22:00Z Asian beggars, she observed, are “so repulsive that instead of appealing to one’s sympathy they only succeed in arousing one’s disgust.” Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want To 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z That this is the supposedly improved version of the musical that opened in London in August 2021 beggars the imagination. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Review: The Title Warned Us 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Graham-Dixon therefore hovers on the periphery, sharply characterising the places where Caravaggio worked – theocratic Rome, Naples with its swarming beggars, or stark, fortified Malta – and letting paintings allegorically narrate the artist's life. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z Bristow unsurprisingly joined others to campaign against the notion that America must “stand like a beggar, deferentially cap in hand, when she comes to compete with the ability of any dirty German village.” Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z He felt, with reason, mortally embattled, and the video is filled with symbols of vulnerability under attack: beggars, slaughtered animals, displaced bodies, and the crucified Jesus. ArtsBeat: After a Flap, a Work Draws Attention 2010-12-09T20:09:00Z With no health insurance, the accident not only crippled her, it nearly beggared her. The Eve Babitz Revival 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Nadav Kander’s “Dust” is just such a relic of the disciplines of geography, and, as for us, we are the animals and beggars that inhabit it. Actual-Sized Photograph 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The beggars' universal cry is "spare any change", but in Zimbabwe they can be choosers on the issue. Zimbabwe's own-label dollar coins face consumer resistance 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Londoners, Freddy decides, "seemed to be wearing costumes": "people in their going-to-work costumes, their I'm-a-mother-pushing-a-pram costumes … even the drinkers in the streets and parks, even the beggars, seemed to be wearing costumes, uniforms". Guardian book club: Capital by John Lanchester 2013-03-01T17:42:01Z A lot depends on the performances, and Oliver Ford Davies marvellously shows Tom's transformation from a flinty old beggar, hoarding his words like gold sovereigns, into a figure of loving kindness. Goodnight Mister Tom – review 2012-11-28T16:10:21Z In rock ’n’ roll mythology, the road to transcendence often passes through the gutter, and “Her Smell” sets out a beggar’s banquet of abjection. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z A beggar looks at me and says, “Don’t be so sad. It’ll get better by and by.” “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Speaking in the voice of a perfectly reasonable bureaucrat, Swift begins by describing the piteous state of beggars and their children “all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.” Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Still, he made an earnest and emotionally grounded Porgy, a kindly, disabled beggar, and won a rousing ovation. When News Upstages an Opera Performance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The other main character is Jed, a homeless beggar and he is the person who holds the key to Cally's family's recovery. A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean - review 2013-04-09T11:00:00Z Those assets were usually nil, according to Mr. Klein, who described him as a lovable beggar and a skilled haggler. Paul Ickovic, Photographer at Home on the Street, Dies at 79 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Her mother, a bellicose beggar imprisoned with her daughter and a newborn infant, was among the first to be executed. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z He expanded his moral universe by talking to beggars and people sleeping on the streets, but also he met incredible characters. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z “Porgy,” by George and Ira Gershwin, and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, depicts a crippled beggar in a poor African-American community of Charleston, South Carolina. Met Opera to hire all-black chorus for ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z In writing her first menu at the Mandarin, she introduced San Francisco diners to Mongolian lamb, and to beggar’s chicken, a whole bird wrapped in lotus leaves and cooked in clay. Cecilia Chiang, a Pioneering Restaurateur, Marks a Century of Flavors 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z I didn’t answer, afraid of hoping again, my neediness like a beggar. I Had to Know if He Was Seeing Someone Else 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z When, at the urging of Minerva, he disguises himself as a beggar to make his way back home, he encounters an endearing, gawky old shepherd, trusting by nature but a little out of it. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “Sweeney Todd” is invoked in a running gag in which a beggar woman cacophonously pleads not for alms but for “Hamilton” tickets. 'Spamilton': Musical spoof lands its punches softly, and with a smile 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z A white bachelor who mimics the beggar woman also flirts with a black male servant, all while courting a white heiress whose relatives are concealing an interracial marriage. Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Why would a woman of means associate with beggars? Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z Its amoral criminals and beggars are over-the-top inventions, and Ostermeier’s visually subdued production derives most of its pleasures from letting the cast’s superb talents loose. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The plot is sound and the cattiness is pungent but Edwards overwrites, labouring every nuance, overexplaining every emotion and introducing a cat-angel who beggars belief. Fiction for older children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:00Z Afterwards the square became a base for buskers, beggars and protesters. Ruben Östlund: ‘All my films are about people trying to avoid losing face’ 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z During the dictatorship we lived under for years a beggar mentality was imposed on us, which put the brakes on the evolution of the youth. Jupiter Bokondji: 'The cultural riches of Congo are immense' 2012-08-25T23:08:00Z Too often, however, Shawn overuses several formulas: The amount of group running with each dancer presenting the crook of one elbow like the prow of a ship beggars belief. Review: Bringing Ted Shawn Back Into the Limelight 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Or watch how Willy’s fedora morphs from a boulevardier’s proudly brandished accessory to something like a humbly proffered beggar’s hat. Review: Arthur Miller’s Dying ‘Salesman’ Is Reborn in London 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z And they open up to me, and one girl, who was a beggar, comes and sits on my lap! Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey | TV Review 2010-04-02T05:45:00Z It's more the attitude of journalists to rock stars that beggars latterday belief. Kid Sister: Ultraviolet 2010-04-29T14:30:00Z See, they almost had us there, the sneaky beggars. Big Brother's return 2011-08-18T19:25:00Z Chunks of Dickensian dialogue, like “decrease the surplus population” and “who made lame beggars walk and blind men see,” remain largely intact. ‘Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol’ Back in Prime Time 2012-12-20T23:24:19Z But why do we treat rank-and-file employees in the arts industry like beggars? Perspective | While members of Congress chew the scenery, the arts wait for scraps 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z ‘If you do, he’ll claim North Korean children are beggars. Be on your guard if he asks you anything, even the most innocent questions.’ What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z You’ll meet a lot of people on the street with beautiful eyes, beautiful children, and sad stories — but many beggars are pickpockets. Pickpocketed in Paris: Travel guru Rick Steves learns a lesson 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z When Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, returned home after 20 years of war and wandering, his aged dog, Argos, knew him instantly. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z An obsessive oddball, he occupies “the same rung of the social ladder as beggars.” Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Others tried mixtures of ritual and desperation, which Spinney describes with a novelist’s eye: In Odessa, Russia, the community held a “black wedding” between beggars to defend against the disease. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Sclavunos's voice is a low, dolorous rumble that emerges from within a beard you would describe as vast if it wasn't next to that of Warren Ellis, a man whose tonsorial arrangements beggar belief. 'It's OK to embarrass yourself' ? Nick Cave and the return of Grinderman 2010-09-02T22:00:00Z Sometimes the eleventh plague is the beggars; at other times, it’s mosquitos. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Consider the first three women famously accused — "Tituba, a Caribbean slave; Sarah Good, a homeless beggar; and Sarah Osborne, an elderly impoverished woman." Season of the witch: How the word, and the concept, made a big 2018 comeback 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Another suite of works looks at images of beggars. The growing divide between wealth and poverty, as seen through one German artist's eyes 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Passionately denouncing the inequity of his time, Francis of Assisi abjured his wealth and joined the beggars. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The whirlwind plot increasingly beggared belief; there were CBeebies-levels of expository dialogue; the melodrama was unintentionally hilarious. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Elisabeth was unnerved by the beggars and the unemployed Communists who gathered at protests, raising the specter of “civil disorder.” A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z They are generous to some beggars while scoffing at others for behaving like simple villagers. | 'Benda Bilili!': ?Benda Bilili!? Chronicles an Unusual Band - Review 2011-09-30T00:21:21Z Among the whites, the men stand triumphantly at the top; their women cringe, sigh, and faint below; and the Asians are left to scramble for what's left, like beggars at a refuse heap. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Four beggars are found dead in a “weird tableau,” each with his hands around the neck of the one in front of him. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z He looked like an old-world troubadour heading into the night, passing entourages and a beggar holding the sign: "Bad ankles, Please help." Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z One might mention her twinkling eyes and the way that her nose, which she admits turns up, wrinkled when she smiled, but like Cleopatra herself: "For her own person,/ It beggared all description." Kim Cattrall: A New York doll returns to the UK 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z It's all real, and then you put the elements together into this fictional story, and it beggars belief. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The whole of it is populated by priests, caretakers, scholars, mendicants, seekers, tourists, knick-knack-and-jewelry sellers, and children, beggars and others so impoverished that you feel guilty about your entire, cushy life. Into the Land of Happiness 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z There are teeming towns filled with merchants, beggars, guards, thieves, craftsmen and kings. Video Game Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Video Game - Review 2011-11-25T19:09:01Z How poignant that one of the supreme composers of the Western world should end “Winterreise” with this pathetic beggar, at whom the dogs growl. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Is it possible to do this and not seem like a beggar? Social Q’s: Banning Beer at an Infant’s Party 2012-10-11T23:45:39Z Who told his followers never to turn away a beggar at your door because — you never know. Paul Ryan’s poverty tourism 2012-10-16T17:05:00Z That such an array of talent could have made something so relentlessly unfunny, unlovable and utterly lacking in insight frankly beggars belief. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-28T23:05:39Z On “How Much a Dollar Cost,” he tells a story about blowing off a beggar who, at the song’s end, reveals himself to be God. Kendrick Lamar, Emboldened, but Burdened, by Success 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z This 1940 movie, part of Film Forum Jr., a series introducing classic movies to children, focuses on the plight of King Ahmad, who has been duped and cast into prison as a lowly beggar. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:34:34Z The author throws himself in at the deep end, spending anxious nights huddled in an underpass not far from the unimaginable wealth of Mayfair, in the company of homeless Roma beggars. Beyond the glitter 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Departing from Chesnutt, Hansberry begins her play with “an old and demented Negro beggar woman” emerging from the swamp, who, we later learn, was driven to insanity after the Ku Klux Klan murdered her husband. Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z “May God bless you and never waste your pain,” she tells a beggar, perhaps indicating concern that her own agonies are being squandered. ‘Saint Maud’ Review: A Passion for Sinners 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The urgent march in the finale, depicting the procession toward resurrection of "the great and the small, kings and beggars, righteous and godless," is a clearly deliberate essay in demotic vulgarity. Mahler's majesty a worthy farewell for SSO's Schwarz 2011-06-17T17:54:04Z We see how the early sketches and etchings of street beggars, half-naked women and hurdy-gurdy musicians transform later in his career into figures that populate his biblical scenes. Rembrandt Died 350 Years Ago. Why He Matters Today. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Modernism Blooming in Iran Most accounts of modern art say, basically, one thing: the West creates while the world waits, like a grateful beggar, for a nourishing handout. Art Review: Shows at Asia Society and N.Y.U. Grey Art Gallery 2013-09-05T21:50:26Z The scene is replete with peasant women and children, drunks, blind people, beggars and thieves. Spain IDs previously unknown Bruegel masterpiece 2010-09-23T16:49:00Z I feel sometimes that I've become a beggar borrowing money and trying to get help from where I can. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z It upends the traditional image of Porgy, a disabled beggar, and the woman he loves, Bess, who has suffered from abuse and addiction. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z She said people in Yenakievo were tired of "living like beggars" and sending taxes to Ukraine's national government in Kiev: "All the money was going to Kiev and we were just getting the leftovers." Floods of Ukrainian refugees seek new life in Russia 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Less successfully, the dialogue can seem a bit flat-footed, with minor characters including a pair of beggars and a grave-digging Scottish duo appearing briefly to offer heavy-handed comic relief. Danny Boyle's 'Frankenstein' should be monster hit 2011-02-24T14:36:34Z He sums up the Chinese city’s 1930s essence in one doozy of a sentence: “Unlimited venture capitalism rode in gaudy style down streets lined with beggars showing off their sores and wounds.” ‘Miracles of Life’: J.G. Ballard tells his own story 2013-02-28T00:08:09Z Although the government denies foreknowledge of Bin Laden's whereabouts, it simply beggars belief that the Pakistani military and intelligence establishment was not aware of his presence. 'The Killing of Osama Bin Laden' by Seymour Hersh details a grave threat to our democracy 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But by the 19th century, hurdy-gurdys were predominantly seen in the hands of beggars. A Renaissance for an Instrument of Melancholy Magic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z “Welsch” meant “incomprehensible”; “rot” was derived from a word for “beggar.” The Secret Code That Threatened Nazi Fantasies of Racial Purity 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Like most beggars, I was careful to be pleasant. Sweating Through Decades for the Teacher’s Admiring Nod 2012-10-19T21:42:53Z Some of them rendered big-eyed child beggars as less unnerving go-go dancers and hipster musicians, and they sometimes worked on black velvet. Created by Hand: Lock, Stock and Barrel 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “How someone could think that escorting a young Asian woman out with an armed police officer was good optics beggars belief,” says a female former Tory staffer. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It's the utter idiocy, the sheer wrong-headedness of the response that beggars belief. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z What the author of the 1699 volume sought to document was known then as cant: the special underworld language of petty thieves, beggars and other dangerous riffraff. ArtsBeat: The Dulpickles and Nigmenogs of 1699 2011-04-01T18:30:00Z In other words, it beggars belief how an object designed six decades ago doesn't look – or, more importantly, sound – kitsch or outdated. Sixty years of the Fender Telecaster 2010-07-04T19:59:00Z Géricault favored “isolated and dispossessed” beggars and tramps, ignored by passers-by. When Misery Becomes a Subject for Art 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Kecia Lewis brings a powerful operatic voice to the role of Marie, the woodland beggar who turns out to be Cinderella's Fairy Godmother. Enchanting 'Cinderella' brings happily-ever-after to Ahmanson 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Even without the public drunkenness of his fellow guests, his description of the interior of his room would beggar belief that such a place could be allowed to operate. You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain – review 2013-01-23T07:01:01Z Its principals weren’t heroes; they were jaded lifers contending with assorted wackos, like the beggar who earned enough to pay for a maid. ?Barney Miller? Remains on the Beat in a Complete DVD Set 2011-10-29T04:00:09Z Mary sits on the ground, like the beggar, but here amid flowers. Wonderfully weird 'Branchini Madonna' at the heart of an engrossing Getty show 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He’s also horrified at their driver’s breakneck pace and dismayed by the beggars and touts, for whom his guidebook marks him as prey. A Novel That Echoes Naipaul, Exploring the Limits of Freedom 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Odysseus is returning home after twenty years, but he is disguised as a beggar in order to sneak into his house. The ancient art of burying your dog 2014-04-06T14:00:00Z When a guy on the street advocates for himself he is often looked upon with suspicion and derision, as a mere beggar. My life on the streets 2013-04-18T21:27:00Z Like “The Good Fight,” it is trying to capture an experience that resists parody and beggars belief. How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z A policeman clears the way, and as he kicks a blind beggar into traffic, he bellows, “Out of the way, you swine! A cartoonist is coming!” The Comic Strip’s Heyday in ‘Cartoon County’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z It received five-star reviews from critics in March - with the noting "the quality of much of what has come to London beggars belief". Pompeii Live to be screened globally 2013-06-11T11:29:26Z "If people abroad see it, they would think that beggars exist in Myanmar!" Myanmar comedy shows struggle for national image 2012-05-01T13:39:08Z The shopkeepers and beggars all know him; a man at the entrance to the shantytown said, “I follow you!” when he spotted Soofi on our visit. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Why, not only does he resemble a beggar, there’s even a dead bird at his feet! Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z When in funds, this lifelong con artist swaggered like a Park Avenue millionaire, gave serious folding money to beggars and always stayed in the best suite in the best hotel. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z At the training sessions, too, what Derki was able to film beggars belief, and there are moments when even his presence as a bystander seems questionable. ‘Of Fathers and Sons’ Review: A Look at Terrorists in Training 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z "Wanton" wonton soup features handmade dumplings, golf-ball-sized beggars' sacks stuffed with minced prawns, pork, onion and shiitake. Lakeside Bistro draws South End diners with its Vietnamese inspired cuisine 2010-03-18T20:53:00Z “I was convinced that he was homeless because only beggars wore torn clothes in North Korea,” she said. Tracing Freedom to a Pair of Jeans 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z His Shakespeare is a tragic figure haunted by images from his London past; yet, for all his indifference to his family, there is an instinctive generosity towards his gardener and a beggar. Bingo 2010-04-25T20:45:00Z It is a sure sign of desperate poverty when people, such as beggars in India, injure themselves in order to arouse the sympathy of potential alms-givers. Why Prince Charles has to keep his views to himself 2010-10-08T06:00:00Z Next he dresses up as an old woman beggar on the streets of Paris. Holy Motors! Minogue, Mendes in madcap Cannes movie 2012-05-23T12:58:44Z But there’s no escaping the market; her beggars are products too. The growing divide between wealth and poverty, as seen through one German artist's eyes 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Postwar, Iraq entered a long, grueling period of international sanctions that beggared its once robust middle class. Mourning Iraq’s Destruction, a Native Son Creates 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z I won't venture guesses on how Washington would view any other Trump policies, but it beggars belief to think he wouldn't be alarmed about the possibility of Trump or any other president becoming a dictator. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z The well-to-do walk past the beggars on the streets and pay to see the beauty of the... A refreshed, fiery 'Les Miserables' 2011-08-13T18:26:05Z The wild scene “beggars every description,” railed Bowes Smith in his journal. Sydney?s Convict Past 2010-12-31T19:55:08Z At the end of the ballet, Balanchine and Robbins came on as beggars and did a dance, whacking each other with big sticks. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The whole political life of the nation beggared belief. ‘I Have Passed the Point of Reacting’: How the Watergate News Cycle Reads Today 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z There is much to beggar belief at Art Basel, as Mr. Cohen knows. | Art Basel Miami Beach, Night Two: After Art-Fair Opening, Contented Revelry 2010-12-02T19:52:00Z It was in that mood that we happened to drive past a Tudor-style home in Northwest Washington and a holiday scene that beggared description. Not feeling like Christmas? There is peace and serenity in the lights. 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z I couldn't afford to buy a Caribbean island and beggar off forever, you know, but it's a nice earner. The stories of the Christmas hits 2010-12-26T00:55:51Z “The other victim is going to get it all,” Winslow writes, “a solemn courtroom, a sympathetic jury, an avenging judge. . . She matters. I’m still the beggar I’ve been for two decades.” ‘Jane Doe January’: A writer seeks truth and justice in her own rape case 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z They’re so vast, with so many complex causes and effects, that they beggar our imaginations; they’re also irreducibly personal, shaping countless individual fates in ways we struggle to grasp. Sunday Reading: War Stories 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Hell, on the other hand, is filled with serpents, demons and other interesting looking monsters that pass the time jabbing Dives with pitchforks after he's been dispatched there for refusing to aid the beggar Lazarus. LA's Getty Museum illustrates death in Middle Ages 2012-06-09T22:16:03Z A percentage of our incomes goes straight into a charity fund, which means we never feel bad saying no to beggars or when keeping the radiators on at night. Get out of my echo chamber. It's cosy in here 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Those were the days when Hollywood enticed folks into movie theaters with spectacles that beggared the small screen of a black-and-white TV. Review | Just in time for an updated ‘West Side Story,’ a look back at the 1961 classic 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z There are beggars on the street, protesters outside the parliament and a caterpillar of riot police closing in on Syntagma square. Before Midnight: Richard Linklater's search for a happy ending 2013-06-13T17:59:01Z “Foreign tourists who run out of money or are pretending to be beggars, we will send them to their respective embassies.” Young, entitled and over there: the rise of the begpacker 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Harried by oppression and poverty, his protagonists fall into acts of moral compromise; the heroes must become that which their conscience condemns – a snitch, a bully and thief, a beggar. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z He imagined helping to free his homeland’s “poor and fettered beggars” and seeing Ukrainian rivers drenched in “the enemy’s black blood.” Antiques: Current Events Imperil Ukrainian Museum Show 2014-04-24T21:32:44Z Those who fall deeply into a Spotify playlist or the latest installment of an addictive podcast enter a cocoon-like zone all but impenetrable to tourists, beggars and those do-gooders with clipboards. My Headphones, My Self 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z In the New Testament, the story is told of how the first face ever seen by the blind beggar Bartimaeus is the face of Christ, his healer, said Packiam. Third Sunday of Lent: We 'share in the suffering' of Ukrainians through fasting, prayer 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Sullivan correctly claims that the Civil War “beggars belief.” Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Bateman even reproves them for using racist and anti-semitic slurs, and when one brags about teasing beggars with dollar bills, advises him to “Just say no.” Donald Trump, “American Psycho” muse: How the “Art of the Deal” elitist became a poor man’s Patrick Bateman — and now he’s a real threat 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z But there are baggier gags, too – including a great dialogue between Philips and a beggar – and, more so than previously, a conversational ease that belies the social-misfit demeanour. Emo Philips 2010-08-12T15:48:00Z This is an example of how the music beggars description: The above sounds unappealing, but in fact it was deeply affecting. Ambrose Akinmusire and Cecile McLorin Salvant, perfectly attuned to each other 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The tale of a disabled beggar and his drug-addicted lover living in a black ghetto called Catfish Row in Charleston, S.C., Arts & Leisure: It Ain?t Necessarily ?Porgy? 2011-08-05T15:00:00Z The amount of dreck Gottlieb must have read to produce a piece so abundant with equanimity beggars the mind. The Urbane Bookworm: Robert Gottlieb’s Essays Celebrate Literature, Film Classics and Dance 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Recent shows ranged from “Straight Outta Venice,” which featured some terribly fantastic rapping, to “Survivor: Globe Edition,” which turned into a “Tempest”-like romp of romance and murder, along with a monster that beggars description. Shakespeare gets the improv treatment with a comic troupe 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z In the second half of the 19th century, he said, beggars began to use dogs to court sympathy and, hopefully, charity. A Museum of Man’s Best Friend, From Fossils to Virtual Reality 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z By maligning them as beggars, Mr Gandhi illustrated his party’s dreadful failure to comprehend the aspirations of millions of hardworking Indians. Witness to a landslide 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The prison yard at Attica would be filled with desperate men who faced consequences from the state that beggared the imagination. Inside the Attica prison uprising: “We’re all less than nothing to the people that matter” 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z In his self-portraits, he sometimes showed himself surrounded by child beggars. Antiques: Current Events Imperil Ukrainian Museum Show 2014-04-24T21:32:44Z His enemies – who were even more populous – included the publisher George Faulkner, who once hired a gang of Irish beggars to hiss Foote from the stage of the Theatre Royal, Dublin. Mr Foote's Other Leg by Ian Kelly – review 2012-10-05T21:55:04Z Cenerentola's fortunes are altered by the arrival of a beggar to whom she offers kindness. La Cenerentola 2010-10-11T21:46:00Z Some view them as innocents fleeing an oppressive regime — and, for many women, an abusive home life — while others insist these escapees were “malicious criminals, filthy beggars and the unwanted.” In an Enchanted World, Echoes of Today’s Political Dramas 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z I'm also looking forward to 72 Miles, about a boy in rural Maharashtra who escapes borstal and falls in with a beggar woman and her family on his long walk home. London Indian film festival shows subcontinent cinema in confident mood 2013-07-22T16:58:10Z When a user with a long-term illness streams her hospital treatments, imploring viewers to pay for her medical fees, is she an entrepreneurial crowdsourcer or a tragic beggar? The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life and Made a Fortune 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The Dulwich version will include a special display of the Murillos it has in its collection with its two beggar boys paintings having had extensive restoration. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo exhibition to examine 'loose style' of later years 2012-11-29T22:18:42Z Just then Alidoro reappears, no longer as a beggar and declares that, according to the parish register, the Baron has three daughters. Glyndebourne 2012 - La Cenerentola synopsis 2012-06-18T13:49:33Z “Mary Lou’s Mass” progresses through a series of mini-parables of daily life, prayer and a tongue-in-cheek account of the story of Lazarus the beggar and his triumph over the rich man who refused him sustenance. Dance Review: Ailey Troupe in Devotional Moods at BAM 2010-06-13T21:17:00Z Some scenes are whimsical, such as a conversation between two beggars about their place in the world, and others harrowing, as when, in a still, extended shot, a woman recounts memories of imprisonment and torture. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z On the day she went to jail, Polly was an angry drunk, known to police as a habitual beggar. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z We have rights so that we don’t have to go like beggars with cups in our hands asking for mercy. The Avenger: Gloria Allred 2010-06-18T22:27:00Z She spotted a terra-cotta plaque of Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, cautiously approaching his wife Penelope after he returns to Ithaca. Circe, a Vilified Witch From Classical Mythology, Gets Her Own Epic 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But where the usual beggars are “simple and plaintive,” these newcomers “had a distinct sort of haughtiness, almost aristocratic.” A Town Is Besieged by Children, Foreign and Violent 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The men always carry spears or bows to defend themselves against “bushmen”— the vicious, atavistic descendants of criminals and beggars — or even occasional marauders from Wales and Ireland. Review | A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z But they decided beggars couldn’t be choosers and signed on. The Screenwriting Team Behind ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Look again at Millais's child beggars; the painting, by the way, is in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Victorian art, the sentimental poor ? and Cameron's Britain 2010-10-26T14:33:00Z The officer responses: “Homelessness,” “poverty,” “crazy,” “junkies” and “beggars” were among the terms recorded. Can police police their biases? 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Polonsky’s accompanying illustration depicts the Franks as beggars huddled on the side of an elegant street lined with cafes and restaurants, while passers-by in fancy clothes — including the van Daans — ignore them. Anne Frank’s Diary, in Graphic Form, Reveals Its Humor 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z He photographed peddlers, beggars, religious leaders, and a young aristocratic bride and groom named Zeng Ji Fen and Nie Ji Gui on their wedding day. Call Him an Early Adopter: Thomas Child, a 19th-Century Photographer in China 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z And then suddenly a suitable candidate appears: A beggar reaches through the car’s open window and grabs her purse. Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Act II is blighted by a crippled beggar who turns out not to be a cripple, yet reappears later with crutches after Tybalt has died. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Based on Mendele Mocher Seforim's classic short stories and detailing the touching romance between a blind girl and a lame beggar, this is one of the most emotionally satisfying of all Yiddish films. Director Edgar G. Ulmer gets his due at LACMA 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z And while Duncan Grant initially wrote to Vanessa Bell that the idea of them as a couple "beggars my imagination", they married in 1925 and that marriage turned into a long, loyal and happy one. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z To brag of starving yourself in front of teenage girls, it beggars belief. A letter to… my thoughtless mother 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z The roving pedlar Picked-Up, the singing beggar Little Jade and Fifth Grandfather are only a few of the enchanting figures in this miniature Canterbury Tales. Profile: Wang Anyi 2011-03-30T11:57:46Z She was wary of Ruba showing the poverty, child beggars, orphans. Patricia Clarkson, the sultriest character actress 2010-08-07T18:01:00Z Monsters were everywhere, too, along with beggars and old women who were really gods hiding their divinity in order to lead humans to make poor choices, or, at other times, protecting them from harm. What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z After a 10-year journey home from the Trojan War, he disguises himself as a wandering beggar to see what's befallen his household since he's been gone. Laura Powell's top 10 heroes in disguise 2013-04-11T15:55:00Z The pay was atrocious and Garcia Marquez recalled his mother visiting him in Bogota and commenting in horror at his bedraggled appearance that: "I thought you were a beggar." Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2014-04-17T20:36:08Z Today, she is a star of Gnawa - long a marginalised culture of street musicians and beggars that is now acquiring a growing following in Morocco, and around the world. Gnawa music: Morocco's Asmâa Hamzaoui takes centre-stage 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Francis has long said that true service and charity has to hurt, and that it’s not enough just to give a beggar a coin on the street. Pope visits a once-troubled Lisbon neighborhood and says true charity must ‘get your hands dirty’ 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The watchful beggar tenderly holding an alert gray tiger cat in his lap has been bestowed with an attribute of clever endurance. Review: A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti's 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The short-ball plan was hatched in desperation and England's compliance in their own downfall beggared belief. England come close to wasting fightback against Australia 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z He said that suggestion "beggars belief" as "none of those spare bags ended up causing blood sugar crashes on the unit". Lucy Letby would have needed Nostradamus ability to kill, jury told 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the newspaper any prospective wedding "beggars belief". Serial killer Levi Bellfield can marry in prison 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z "It beggars belief that the council is now relying on a 71-year-old pensioner with a spray can to do the work we already pay them for," he said. Knutsford man paints own road markings over safety concerns 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z With a furrowed brow and earnest eyes looking out directly at a viewer, the beggar leans gently to one side in a posture of subtle deference. Review: A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti's 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z "Now a fisherman is nothing, they are like beggars," he said, pushing his boat along the canal in humid heat. Drought drives economic exodus from Iraq's rivers and marshlands 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z "Why we've had to wait this long... it beggars belief," he said. Wrexham: Welsh language school losing pupils due to road closure 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Labour said the move "beggars belief", and the asylum system was "in chaos". Home Office starts ad campaign to deter Albanian migrants 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z The image of people in luxury vehicles tossing coins to beggars for helping them navigate the country's failing infrastructure seems like a fitting metaphor for the current struggles facing this deeply unequal society. South Africa load-shedding: The roots of Eskom's power problem 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Look closely, and the beggar’s left hand has disappeared, tucked inside the placket of his tatty jacket. Review: A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti's 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Ceruti was tagged “Pitocchetto” — the little beggar — given his fondness for pictures of maidservants, peasant families and vagrants in tattered rags. 13 unmissable arts events we're looking forward to this summer 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Hugo Lloris' contribution to Tottenham's first half beggared belief and it was a relief not to see him return for the second half. Who is the one player Arsenal can count on? Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z “My look was like a beggar, a homeless person. I had glasses on and very shabby clothes.” How to flee house arrest in Russia: Escapees tell their secrets 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of widows lost their family breadwinners and some of them were reduced to a lifetime as beggars. When we were Vladimir Putin: The American war from hell, 20 years later 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z A story is told of a revolutionary socialist who was strolling with a friend when they encountered a beggar. Opinion | Woke word-policing is now beyond satire 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Fortunately, some beggars and homeless people have seized the opportunity to kit themselves out in reflective vests - and to take responsibility for directing traffic. South Africa's minister of electricity: Can Ramokgopa end load-shedding? 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z A beachside performer in Mumbai places it on his donations can before beginning his robot act; a Delhi beggar flashes it through your car’s window when you plead that you have no cash. Where Digital Payments, Even for a 10-Cent Chai, Are Colossal in Scale 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Roadside barbers, peanut vendors, street performers and beggars all accept money through an instant payment system that connects hundreds of millions of people. Your Thursday Briefing: Nigeria’s New ‘Big Boss’ 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z An army of men push wheelbarrows along the streets, their empty carts serving as props to keep government beggar patrols at bay and allow them to pretend they are still on the job. The deepening chill of Afghanistan’s second Taliban winter 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z But the soaring price of shipping beggared that strategy. Why Chinese Companies Are Investing Billions in Mexico 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z A decision to describe comments by a football manager as "not conscious racism" beggars belief, a black ex-premier league footballer has said. John Yems: Anger over calling manager 'not conscious racist' 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z South Korean dramas and movies showed the South was a thriving capitalist country, rather than an impoverished one full of beggars and criminals as portrayed in North Korean propaganda, Lee told The Washington Post. The shadowy groups trying to keep North Koreans from listening to K-pop 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z "It is a shocking incident, it beggars belief." Ipswich stabbing: Man, 18, dies after town centre attack 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z It has been a huge success, used by everyone from beggars to billionaires. Brazil's crowdfunded insurrection leaves paper trail for police 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Verborgh said each tiny dose of 0.2 gram sells for 20 euros, within reach of even a beggar seeking instant gratification for whom a traditional 0.8 gram dose costing 50 euros is too expensive. Despite record cocaine seizures, drug cartels roil Europe 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z "It just beggars belief that they can push that notion - the action of someone is not racist when it's not their call to make." John Yems: Anger over calling manager 'not conscious racist' 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Before his removal, Mr Gove had said it "beggared belief" that he was still in post. Awaab Ishak: Rochdale housing association loses £1m extra funding 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z “Poor” has always been a tainted word, like “homeless” or “beggar.” ‘Miles Walked, Miles Driven’: This Year’s College Essays About Money 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z "Our international colleagues have come a long way to the UK, and have found conditions so exploitative it beggars belief." ‘Exploited’ foreign doctors worry about risk to UK patients 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Schoolgirls, waiters, millionaires, beggars, soldiers and government ministers all knew his poetry by heart. Hadraawi: Tribute to the poet on the lips of every Somali 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Of economic spark, as jobs vanish, shops and restaurants shut and an ever-increasing number of beggars camp outside bakeries hoping for a morsel of bread. 'I want to leave more than ever': A year after U.S. pullout, Kabul is a city in despair 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z He wants to play until he is 41, says Balague, who added that someone needs to tell him that "beggars can't be choosers". 'Ronaldo shouldn't be at Man Utd but has nowhere to go' 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Prosecutors said in court papers that it “beggars belief” that she incurred anywhere close to $430,000 in legal costs for her misdemeanor case. Some Capitol rioters try to profit from their Jan. 6 crimes 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z We have turned our teachers into social media beggars hoping the generosity of strangers on crowdfunding websites can get them needed supplies. Advice | Teachers get a pitiful $50 tax deduction bump for supplies for 2022 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z “It beggars belief that Zawahiri could live where he did for as long as he did and without the Taliban knowing,” said Michael Kugelman, an expert on the region at the Wilson Center in Washington. Taliban denies knowing of al-Qaeda presence after Zawahiri killed in Kabul 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z First out of the gate are tall glass plinths topped with beggar’s purses fashioned from crepes colored with beet and saffron. Review | Pineapple & Pearls reopens — and is hauter than ever 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z "I feel really bad, it burns my heart," he says, explaining that he had been reduced to a beggar after prolonged drought wiped out his only source of livelihood - his livestock. Kenya: Life on the front-line of severe food shortages 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z She said: "The Conservatives have been in power for 12 years. It beggars belief that they claim to be the ones to sort things out when they have both failed for so long." Tory leadership: Truss and Sunak vow to toughen migration controls 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Asturias fills the novel with beggars, the idle rich, simpering aristocrats and political sycophants. Review | A Nobel laureate’s novel about dictatorship gets a welcome new edition 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The crowd includes a businessman, a construction worker, a mother and child, a beggar crouched with a cup and a young man passing him change. Harvey Dinnerstein, realist artist who sketched a boycott, dies at 94 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z "The government have missed Brexit opportunities time and time again. It beggars belief that during a cost of living crisis that they still haven't cut VAT on energy bills," he will add. Labour will do Brexit better than Tories, says Keir Starmer 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z In June, Cardiff council launched its Real Change campaign, which sought to discourage people from giving money to beggars who should be encouraged to access support to "get their lives back on track". Street begging clampdown by police across south Wales 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z "There is widespread support for this policy. It beggars belief that it has taken so long to see any action," Mr Gruffydd added. Single-use bags and plastic wet wipes face ban in Wales 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z During one such moment, a beggar’s hallucination includes what has to be one of the longer compound words ever printed: “Curveofacurveinacurveofacurveinacurveofacurveinacurve.” Review | A Nobel laureate’s novel about dictatorship gets a welcome new edition 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z "In this day and age it beggars belief," she says. Families fear restraint plans could harm children 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z "We are not beggars. We want our message to be heard for that fair share," Park, 55, said as he took turns cooking inside a truck for fellow drivers in Incheon. S.Korean truckers say strike is a fight for livelihood 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z “Now I am a beggar without happiness. Now I have to ask for charity. It would be better to kill me.” ‘Now I am a beggar’: Fleeing the Russian advance in Ukraine 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Seven of the children were Koranic students who took classes from a holy man who employed them as beggars. 11 Newborns Killed in Hospital Fire, Senegal’s Leader Says 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Chengguan are the most reviled officials, known for brutalizing beggars, chasing down street vendors and assisting in tearing down people’s homes. ‘The Last Generation’: The Disillusionment of Young Chinese 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the Sun, which first reported the news, that the wedding "beggars belief". Levi Bellfield: Serial killer applies to marry in prison 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “No more family picnics, no more meat with dinner, beggars everywhere. The future is totally unclear.” As the Afghan economy crumbles, small businesses struggle to hang on 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z "I'm a celebrated musician, but I'm a beggar. Famo music has broken my heart." The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In Kabul, war and poverty have long created a permanent underclass of child beggars, scavengers and shoeshine boys, but their numbers have soared in recent months. Boys in Afghanistan are becoming breadwinners for their families 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z "It beggars belief that people are having to live in properties with bare floors, when people are willing to leave them if they are wanted," she added. Preston: Families left with bare floors as ex-tenants told to rip out carpets 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z According to legend, St. Martin cut his cloak in half and shared it with a beggar. Pope thanks Orban for taking Ukrainians, Orban invites pope to Hungary 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Once people have run out of things to sell they have turned to begging and there are so many beggars on streets - the majority are mothers with children. Ethiopia's Tigray war: Inside Mekelle cut off from the world 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z In later interviews, Rodríguez suggested he and the CIA would have preferred to keep Guevara alive, to show the world how defeated he looked — “like a beggar,” he said — when apprehended. Mario Terán, soldier who executed Che Guevara, dies at 80 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Which brings us to the Dolby’s three mezzanine levels, where beggars who hopefully aren’t choosers have to, in the words of one academy member, “be OK with the thinner oxygen.” How do you get a ticket to the Oscars? Here are the basics, minus begging and pleading 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Beyond its ghats and its timeless churn of bathing pilgrims, holy men and beggars stands a gleaming promenade, renovated by Adityanath in 2019. Voters in the crucial Indian state of Uttar Pradesh ask: Are we job seekers or Hindus first? A couple who ran a hotel in neighboring Henan province found the woman wandering as a beggar and had taken her in, according to the report. China’s investigation confirms chained woman was trafficked 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z How you leave Raphinha on the sidelines against a team like United beggars belief. Who might be valuable for Tottenham? 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z “Look how many beggars there are in the streets. It’s like a curse.” Once Lebanon’s center of glamor, Hamra Street goes dark 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Both could have won a game that beggared belief. Ashes Test drawn in incredible finale 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z There was something about the beggars with the disease he saw on the road, he said, presenting their bodies to passers-by, which used to be a much more common sight, that moved him. Leprosy Hospital Offers Healing, and a Haven, to the Shunned 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Why William Troost-Ekong felt the need to go to ground in his own penalty area at the most crucial time of the match beggars belief. Who made Garth Crooks' team of the week? 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z To find a rhyme for “personable,” it takes, to start, random access to an inventory of English sounds so vast that it beggars any thesaurus. The Essential Musical Dramatist Who Taught Us to Hear 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z He’s also thinking about different ways of presenting dishes, encouraged by the success of the beluga caviar beggar’s purse that Quilted Giraffe guests ate with their hands off a pedestal. When he reopens Pineapple & Pearls, Aaron Silverman plans to ‘smash’ the fine-dining mold 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z There's something to be said for that, along the lines of the old proverb that tells us it's better to be hanged as a thief than a beggar. Democrats and the dark road ahead: There's hope — if we look past 2022 (and maybe 2024 too) 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Some of the points raised against this proposal are so dishonest as to beggar belief. Column: The IRS wanted a new tool to go after tax cheats. Republicans and bankers blocked it 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z People from rural areas and civil servants who have gone unpaid for months have swelled the ranks of beggars. ‘God have mercy’: Tigray residents describe life under siege 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z States can live up to that ideal without also trying novel ways to beggar their neighbors. Perspective | South Dakota’s tax avoidance schemes represent federalism at its worst 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z "It beggars belief" he said ,that in the context of escalating energy prices and tax rises, "the government is ploughing ahead" with the cut to the benefit. Under-fire MP Peter Bottomley's universal credit concern 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z "Then the bloke behind asked me where the nearest petrol station was. It just beggars belief." Fuel supplies: Mortar tanker tailed by drivers looking for petrol 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Why David Moyes allows substitute Mark Noble on to the pitch and the first thing he is asked to do is to take a penalty beggars belief. Who made Garth Crooks' team of the week? 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z He will be a beggar, not an extortionist. LOVERRO: Maryland, Virginia, District can demand honesty from Snyder 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z “The priest said, ‘You are beggars, how will you fight in the court and in the police station?’” she said. 9-Year-Old’s Death in Delhi Renews Protests Against Sexual Violence 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The foundation set up mobile, outdoor classrooms to provide education to children, including child beggars found at red-light districts and slums. Covid in India: Tackling lack of online learning in Delhi's slums 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z "It's absolutely despicable, it just beggars belief," he said. Otley Burger Company's 'despicable' Father's Day ad slammed 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z North Korean state propaganda had long described South Korea as a living hell crawling with beggars. Kim Jong-un Calls K-Pop a ‘Vicious Cancer’ in the New Culture War 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z "Given the horrifying evidence of abuses, it beggars belief the government is dragging its feet in bringing forward the tough action needed to help to tackle the exploitation of forced labour in Xinjiang." Government ‘dragging feet’ on China forced labour 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Much has already been said in the excellent blog by Jonathan Liew; the intolerance shewn by to Ms Osaka in respect of her health and well being beggars belief. French Open: Barty and Nadal in action, plus reaction to Osaka exit – live! 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z This preacher with the gray, combed-back hair speaks of the con man’s game of three-card monte, as well as the Bible’s blind beggar, Bartimaeus. Perspective | The space filled by Al Sharpton’s prayers and politics 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z However, he said the islanders were amazed and saddened when they saw beggars and homeless people in England because none is homeless on their island. Pacific island devotees of Prince Philip send their condolences 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z "There are so many more beggars, some people died from hunger in the border area, and there's no soap, toothpaste, or batteries." North Korea: Kim Jong-un warns of 'difficult' crisis 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z |
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