Sentence examples for dirt disorder from inspiring English sources

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Danto judges that "Ruckus Manhattan," and most of Grooms's work, ridicules the pervasive rot, dirt, disorder, menace and sourness of the city, making it all funny.

Their stilted, patrician delivery is from another age, yet some of these urban planners' and politicians' biggest preoccupations - notably with dirt, disorder and decency - and their near-utopian belief that a better, fairer city could be engineered on drawing boards and delivered from the top down finds an echo in much modern regeneration thinking.

Polar historian Ranulph Fiennes writes that in conditions of "democratic anarchy", dirt, disorder and inactivity were the order of the day.

Borchgrevink was evidently no autocrat but, Bernacchi said, without the framework of an accepted hierarchy a state of "democratic anarchy" prevailed, with "dirt, disorder and inactivity the order of the day".

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She proposes adding this nuance: "He recalled the tumble-down dirt & disorder of the 'Goddam shack' when they'd first seen it, & how under her hands it had become... beautiful; he recalled the vision, the enthusiasm, the love with which she had labored".

Unlike many sufferers, she didn't order her life by rituals of counting and sorting, and she was unfazed by domestic dirt and disorder.

The family scraped by but it was a deprived upbringing, and it left Crawford with an abiding hatred of dirt and disorder.

Roget himself turned out humorless and judgmental, beset with a "paranoid streak" as well as melancholy and shyness, not to mention a horror of "dirt and disorder" — the Thesaurus entry for "uncleanness" is a lollapalooza.

Mr. Gbagbo has known that other world of dirt and disorder through years of rabble-rousing opposition, imprisonment for his political views and his own modest origins in a rural village.

Mr DeLillo has a keen and sympathetic eye for the peculiarities of the human heart, exemplified in his treatment of J. Edgar Hoover, with his obsession with Breughel's "Triumph of Death", his horrified fascination with celebrities, his hatred of dirt and disorder and his chaste passion for his sidekick, Clyde Tolson.

He gives you crosscurrents, dirt, haze — the disorder of a zillion particles crawling downstream.

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