How To Use squalor In A Sentence
- Tenements, rookeries, and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.
- But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
- Perhaps it was her upbringing in the slums of Dundee, where squalor and drunkenness were a sad part of daily life, that made her more able to cope.
- The end comes to both actions at once in the squalor of a chance-medley. William Shakespeare
- It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
- It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood - stained magnificence, and moral squalor.
- From the mean squalor of the sordid life that limits him, the dreamer or the idyllist may soar on poesy's viewless wings, may traverse with fawn-skin and spear the moonlit heights of Cithaeron though Faun and Bassarid dance there no more. Miscellanies
- They are often criticized for producing "poverty porn" for Western audiences; their detractors call their - oeuvre the "cinema of squalor" — a label Philippine critic Lito Zulueta decries as unfair. Daring Filipinos Not To Look Away
- Last year's Nobel Prize winner gives us the horror and the squalor, the dislocation and the dread that are the legacy of empire.
- It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.