| Grant did not affect the mock shock of someone who has experienced abject poverty first-hand for the first time on any of her trips. |
| What stood out when I was there wasn't their poverty but their perseverance and resourcefulness. |
| People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery. |
| This was intimately tied to their notion that the way out of poverty was via waged work. |
| The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine. |
| If poverty leads to lead exposure, and lead abets crime and poor health, then lead can be said to nudge indigent people toward crimes. |
