How To Use Squalor In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The end comes to both actions at once in the squalor of a chance-medley.
William Shakespeare
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It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
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It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood - stained magnificence, and moral squalor.
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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
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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
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Last year's Nobel Prize winner gives us the horror and the squalor, the dislocation and the dread that are the legacy of empire.
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It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
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Barclay was severely malnourished when discovered amid the squalor
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This was an underworld where squalor and vice went hand in hand through the beautiless streets, a melting-pot of the world's outcasts; this was the shadowland, which last night had swallowed up Nayland
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
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It is autocracy state of palace crime, blood - stained magnificence, and moral squalor.
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He claims that his family's early life on the north bank of the River Aire in Leeds was one of squalor.
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The people have a government of crooks, cronies, liars, thugs and psychopaths who offer no leadership or positive vision and so lead their people to a life of squalor and desperation.
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And he makes the astonishing statement that American society "is not gerontophobic now," for if it were, "we would be pushing the old into gas ovens or letting them die in squalor.
Growing Old: An Exchange
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How absurd such horror, such squalor, seemed from this lofty height!
Anti-Ice
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Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.
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* Jam divini amor Numinis, Patris omnipotentis prolisque beatissimae sancta communicatio; omnipotens Paraclete Spiritus; moerentium consolator clementissime, jam cordis mei penetralibus potenti illabere virtute, et tenebrosa quaeque laris neglecti latibula, corusci luminis fulgore pius habitator laetifica, tuique roris abundantia, longo ariditatis marcentia squalore, visitando fecunda.
Pneumatologia
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London's population had continued to grow and many lived in squalor and poverty.
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This remained the case through to William Beveridge, whose declamation of the five evils of ‘Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness’ would be almost unthinkable now.
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But the residents say they are being forced to live in near squalor by a council that seems to have forgotten they exist.
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To medieval city-dwellers, especially the poor, rural squalor was a terrible and recent memory.
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The idea of deserving versus underserving poor is a hand-me-down from the Protestant/English work ethic that has a long history of ignoring the poorest and denigrating them to squalor.
Democrats downplay House retirements
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They have been abandoned by their owners and now house illegal tenants who live in squalor and fear.
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The dirt and squalor and laziness in the country are beyond words.
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The sharpest writing is found in evaluations of social hierarchies and disgusted descriptions of squalor and dirt.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The great majority of the population lived in varying degrees of squalor.
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He lived in… squalor might be too strong a word, but his last apartment was a 6th-floor walk-up.
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Over the squalor, just as typically, broods a heartrending tenderness.
Times, Sunday Times
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He died there in October 1774 amid scenes of unbelievable squalor.
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It is a country beset by poverty, squalor, inequality and violence.
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Infectious diseases rather than chronic degenerative diseases were the order of the day, and the majority of the population lived in poverty and squalor.
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[132] "Jam divini amor Numinis, Patris omnipotentis prolisque beatissimae sancta communicatio; omnipotens Paraclete Spiritus; moerentium consolator clementissime, jam cordis mei penetralibus potenti illabere virtute, et tenebrosa quaeque laris neglecti latibula, corusci luminis fulgore pius habitator laetifica, tuique roris abundantia, longo ariditatis marcentia squalore, visitando fecunda.
Pneumatologia
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The sharpest writing is found in evaluations of social hierarchies and disgusted descriptions of squalor and dirt.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Visitors were often appalled by the squalor, but the couple regarded the arrival of rats more with amusement than alarm.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's not just the low-rent squalor that gets Kit down, though.
Strings Attached
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The musicals of the '30s are enjoyable, in part because they don't dwell on misfortune and squalor and poverty.
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Madam, – Patrick Skene Catling, in reviewing the book of the day, Splendour & Squalor, states that “Schadenfreude is a German word with no one-word English equivalent”.
English Schadenfreude
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Buchanan Street's George Hotel was the essential backdrop for any film director looking to portray urban squalor.
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The squalor of the medieval city - with its cramped living quarters and dark alleyways - would be erased forever.
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Eden, a young aspiring poet, a ‘mapmaker’, who wants to become the successor of Hughes and Baldwin, arrives in Paris in September 1986 only to have the decay and squalor of her surroundings becloud her illusions.
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Those pustulent reminders of urban squalor do so upset my pretty notions of English whimsy and folderol.
Prince Picks | clusterflock
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Many live in squalor, some in tent villages, others in ramshackle public buildings.
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Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases.
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Some people try to escape the formless mass of humanity - can you imagine 3 million people living in squalor in camps in one region?
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It's worth a look if only for its very British, near-Dickensian combo of squalor, social comment and comic grotesquerie.
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He had given up painting in 1878 and existed in the bohemian squalor of his Chelsea mansion, in a state of deep melancholy, sustained by a diet of 180 grains of chloral a day, washed down with whisky.
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In his diary he describes how he ‘saw various forms of squalor, disease, and deformity-all manner of importunate beggary.’
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It's fair to say that a few decent shops would be nice and many areas of the town could do with a facelift, but that does not mean we live in misery and squalor.
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But his prickly sense of slighted dignity and obsessive contempt for other people's ethical squalor inevitably drags him down.
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She has been a prisoner for years on end, unloved and constantly undernourished in the midst of appalling squalor.
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Most of his sharpest invective is directed against his wife's mother, who did not want her to marry into bohemian squalor.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's content to live in utter squalor, while the detritus of daily living piles up around her.
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But patience has run out among people who have been living in squalor.
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They are places of appalling squalor, repression and violence, where a few dollars earned by running drugs is a good wage.
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All the economic development of life itself takes on at its end the appearance of an attempt to get rid of the animal squalor and bareness which is what obligatory poverty really means, and to give to man the divine ease and leisure of the gods.
War and strife themselves have been schools of heroism
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Extensive use of maps and photographs helped paint a vivid picture of human misery and squalor.
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Of course, neither poverty nor environmental squalor will be abolished by such an approach.
Politics, Planning and the State
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She was brought up in filth and squalor that disgusted everyone who set foot in their home in her early years on the Bransholme estate and latterly the Orchard Park estate in Hull.
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The harrowing sequence at El Morro prison carries us into a squalor that would be hellish, but for the fact that Arenas is embosomed by his fellow inmates as the only one who can write their letters.
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In his photographs unexpected camera angles and dramatic chiaroscuro effects transform the occasional squalor and chaos of the actual events into powerful dream-like images.
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The industrial revolution brought public squalor, poverty and high infant mortality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Movie Review Slumdog Millionaire shorl. com 1 / 13 / 2009 - Hope within squalor, humor within violence - they're all thematic trademarks of the British director of druggie drama Trainspotting and zombie saga 28 Days Later.
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Cathy was a too-real story about inner-city squalor, broken marriages, homelessness and a shot-to-hell welfare system.
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Conversely, it is conceivable that they just enjoy drenching themselves in an acid rain of squalor and degeneracy, and that their disciples are self-loathing masochists.
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There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of drains.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Yet the squalor of this north-eastern corner of Britain's oldest remaining colony comes as welcome relief after toytown Hamilton, the capital, and Bermuda's endless suburban sprawl.
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I found the film's fractured chronology, grimy miserablism, and Cotillard's ferrety frenzy nerve-wracking, with no compensating grace notes to offset the squalor and syringes.
Little Sparrow, Big Thirst: James Wolcott
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This was an underworld where squalor and vice went hand in hand through the beautiless streets, a melting-pot of the world's outcasts; this was the shadowland which last night had swallowed up
The Devil Doctor
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They live in appalling squalor with very little food, shelter or medical supplies.
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Children of the gutter and sexless haunters of the street corner elbowed comfortable artisans and their wives; there were bareheaded hoidens from the obscurest courts, and work-girls whose self-respect was proof against all the squalor and vileness hourly surrounding them.
Thyrza
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He was clad in what, though it was not distinctly a seaman's habit, yet suggested the ways of the sea, and there was a kind of foppishness about his rig which set me wondering, for I was used to a slovenly squalor or a slovenly bravery in the sailors I knew most of.
Marjorie
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It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
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What redeems Kingston - and makes up for the noise, the squalor, the inconveniences and the heat - is the city's splendid setting.
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Then famine and war limit population until people find new lands with undepleted soil and resources and population booms, or they find a new technology after decades or centuries of hunger and squalor...
"The GOP has persuaded the public of the wisdom of its fetish for populating the U.S. coastline with oil rigs."
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Fifteen million people live in wooden dwellings on stilts above an open sewer in unimaginable squalor.
Times, Sunday Times
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It gave a curious dignity to the tall crumbling tenements, covering the squalor and ugliness with purifying whiteness.
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What makes my error even more comical is that I innocently inferred that the industrious and opportunistic (in a positive sense) Europeans who became refugees to France during the turmoil of the Algerian independence movement had somehow contributed to the urban squalor I observed in La Rose which was about as far from the truth as one could venture.
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It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
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They were always richly decorated and well furbished, not the squalor and darkness you would expect.
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He's a Chilean hero, cruelly held here for more than a year, in squalor, against his will, while mentally weak and physically unfit.
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What point is there in spending a fortune in promoting Scotland as a country to visit and to do business in when the first impression is one of third-world dirt and squalor.
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It's a major work, an announcement from someone with an eye for beauty amidst squalor and an ear for the very real cadences of very specific slang and dialect.
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Their set consisting of everything from painfully beautiful renditions of "Runaway" and "England" to headbang-appropriate versions of "Squalor Victoria" and "Mr. November" was outstanding and worthy of a finale season.
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Ten months after the disaster, most of the victims are still living in squalor.
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This quite different context allowed some observers of the city to communicate a view about the squalor of the Victorian legacy.
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Just as the slums, squalor and muddle of towns and cities could be overcome by planning, so could social evils.
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Whatever "landlordism" may mean elsewhere in Ireland, it is plain enough that in the history of Gweedore it has meant the difference between savage squalor and civilisation.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
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How absurd such horror, such squalor, seemed from this lofty height!
Anti-Ice
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Fifteen million people live in wooden dwellings on stilts above an open sewer in unimaginable squalor.
Times, Sunday Times
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What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private affluence and public squalor.
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The sharpest writing is found in evaluations of social hierarchies and disgusted descriptions of squalor and dirt.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I found the film's fractured chronology, grimy miserablism, and Cotillard's ferrety frenzy nerve-wracking, with no compensating grace notes to offset the squalor and syringes.
Little Sparrow, Big Thirst: James Wolcott
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I cannot recall another such memorial which so succinctly embraces the horror, waste and inglorious squalor of its theme.
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Life for the humans is patinated with grime and squalor.
Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review
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But his prickly sense of slighted dignity and obsessive contempt for other people's ethical squalor inevitably drags him down.
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There was none of the filth and squalor they regarded as inseparable from city life.
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The hugger-mugger squalor endured by the planet's traveling billions.
Planes, Trains And Miseries
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It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
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If what it overwhelmingly finds is smallness, spiritual squalor, it would seem to be required of the affirmer to intervene and raise the tone of the world.
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When I was a student in Manchester I lived in a place called Hulme, a sprawling concrete estate of industrially produced deck-access housing that had been declared unfit for families in the mid-70s and had subsequently descended into oddly bohemian squalor.
Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people
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This wallows in the dirt, squalor, drunkenness and mechanical, dehumanised sexuality of those who live on the margins of society, where the artistic petty bourgeois merges with the lumpenproletariat.
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Three shabbily dressed and under - nourished children lived in a Hampshire house of astonishing squalor as their parents frittered their money away on drink, a court heard.
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It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
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CNN briefly flashed video of jubilant Palestinians celebrating amid the squalor of their microstate, but evidently thought better of running it more than once.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: Sept. 12, 2001
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Humans are marvellously adaptable, aren't they, even to squalor and exitless madhouses.
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Meanwhile, the only two city shelters sank further into squalor and disrepair.
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Meanwhile, the only two city shelters sank further into squalor and disrepair.
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He was born in squalor next to London's docks.
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What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private affluence and public squalor.
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TV on DVD Next week's releases of past television series The state of affairs not likely to be undone soon is the one on display in the quarters that are home to the town's poor—slums of terrifying squalor where diseases flourish, exhausted women die untended after yet another pregnancy, and girls don't get to go to school because there are young sisters and brothers to look after.
A Formula So Old It's New Again
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His sensibility transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
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But if what it overwhelmingly finds is smallness, spiritual squalor, it would seem to be required of the affirmer to intervene and raise the tone of the world.
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Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases.
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In his diary he describes how he ‘saw various forms of squalor, disease, and deformity-all manner of importunate beggary.’
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What, then, is one to make of Moore's insistent theme that readers of his books are doomed to squalor?
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Because they do not want to acknowledge the squalor and the cronyism inherent in the devolution settlement, on which all their well-paid sinecures depend, is the answer.
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It's about these mentally limited brothers who lived in contented squalor on a cow farm in upstate New York.
Archive 2007-01-01
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In their surroundings the natives exhibit all the squalor and dirt of China, with none of the cleanlier qualities of the people of Japan.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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It's about optimism in spite of the squalor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Conditions were hard with up to 10,000 people living in squalor under tarpaulin and surviving on corn meal and wheat.
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And then it occurs to one that this is brilliant, that Waugh has rescued his tale from squalor and intolerableness in order to instruct us.
If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Vile Bodies « Unknowing
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The heat, humidity and squalor of the flooded city is causing panic and desperation.
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Bridget saw the squalor and poverty of the Christians, who fled the south to live in shanty towns around the capital.
