Sixto Rodriguez

I know I did 'Establishment Blues,' and I said 'This is not a song it's an outburst' and I'd play it, I never did describe it as a rant - R-A-N-T - but the thing is it's exactly that. Sometimes it sounds like that, but there's a lot out there on the everyday man, on the plight of the little guy.

American Musician

John McAfee

I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

American Businessman

Robert J. Bentley

I am concerned about the plight of the working poor... If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can't expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money.

American Politician

David Cameron

If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

British Politician

Ryan Phillippe

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

American Actor

Andrew Gross

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

American Author

Alexander McQueen

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

English Designer

CeeLo Green

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

Nazanin Boniadi

As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me on a deeply personal level.

British Actress

Tom Hayden

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

Use 'plight' when discussing social problems that affect people deeply.

Common Social Issues

'Plight' carries emotional impact, suggesting empathy for those in trouble.

Emotional Weight

Avoid using 'plight' for minor personal issues. It's for serious, widespread problems.

Not Personal Troubles

Understanding that 'plight' as an oath is archaic helps differentiate modern usage.

Historical Context

You might find 'plight' as a promise in classic literature or historical documents.

Literary Use

'Plighting one's troth' is an archaic term for making a serious marriage commitment.

Pledge Significance

The noun form of 'plight' meaning 'strip of material' is seldom used today.

Rare Usage

In rare uses, surrounding words will hint 'plight' refers to material, not a situation.

Context Clues

 to keep functioning. They're the body's builders, defenders and maintenance workers, helping it to build muscle and bone, make use of nutrients, capture and use energy and heal wounds. If you need convincing about vitamin value, just consider the plight of olden day sailors,

How do vitamins work? -...

 And hopefully, you know, people learning more about them and their plights and how endangered they are they may go some way of, you know, of helping preserve the Red Panda for many years to come. There's a few questions that surprised me. Yeah, why do red pandas eat grapes?

Are Red Pandas Friendly?...

 Paul And as the game went on, one of the really interesting and dramatic patterns that we observed begin to emerge was that the rich players actually started to become ruder toward the other person -- less and less sensitive to the plight of those poor, poor players,

Does money make you...

 Special chemicals called stress hormones run through your body, giving you more oxygen and power to run away from danger or to face it and fight for your life, hence the term "fight or flight." But when you don't fight, or take flight, you face the plight.

Does stress cause...

 influences what you tend to see. And you see the lamp here, I know. Because the lights on here. Of course, thanks to the environmentalist movement we're all sensitive to the plight of marine mammals. So what you see in this particular ambiguous figure

The pattern behind...

 it is the world to me I've heard of it before our time the newspapers were trifles for rich people only they never told the plight of the regular people in the world working-class people that people who strive and struggle I come

Being Joseph Pulitzer PIPE...

 by a history of racial inequality and injustice it compromises us it constrains us we have been infected by the racial injustice that we have tolerated the plight of indigenous people who are the victims of a genocide

The urgent need for...

 But upon seeing the weaver’s beauty, the cowherd forgot his routine. While he longed to introduce himself, his lonely lifestyle had made him timid. Thankfully, the bull saw his friend's plight and offered some advice.

The myth of the original...

 but the princess saw he was not at peace. After talking for hours, Satyavan told her of his plight. His parents had once been wealthy rulers, until his father was blinded and overthrown in a violent coup.

Savitri and Satyavan:...

 and no husband to back me up. Months of slow pay and no pay have decimated my credit. Bill collectors call constantly, reading verbatim from a script before expressing polite sympathy for my plight

Plight

A bad, difficult, or sad situation.

Often appears as...

An oath or promise.

Usage tips

To give a promise or pledge.

Usage tips

A narrow piece of cloth or paper for binding something.

Usage tips

Common Social Issues

Emotional Weight

Not Personal Troubles

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