The scene beneath the boardwalk felt "magnificently squalid and otherworldly," he said.
Now he has been convicted, the anecdotes and personal testimonies stream out, so that reading the papers the following day felt pornographically squalid and terrifying.
It's a bleak, faintly squalid romp that looks and feels as if it was made in the mid-80s – the worst movie involving ex-Pythons since Nuns on the Run.
It feels wrong, somehow, like you're doing something squalid over something holy.
His refusal to budge – from the chairs of a comfortably appointed London hotel room in the first act and a squalid room in Naples in the second – is a refusal to enter or acknowledge a world he feels is unpardonably vulgar, hypocritical and cruel.
During his long life Trachi had encountered very few of them, and he assured me that he felt no attraction to these squalid monsters.
Like Capote, Burn immersed himself in the details and locales of the crimes, getting to know the squalid underlife of their neighbourhoods, until he felt equipped to imagine the insides of the killers' heads.
Bono felt the man was decent at heart but was constrained by his squalid living conditions, as well as poor choices, and Bono wanted to illustrate how these poor conditions affected their lives.
"Don't feel humiliated, and keep your head up," she told a woman, bemoaning the squalid living conditions at the camp.
The effects of any new failures in the Balkans will be felt well beyond the region.Like it or not, west Europeans must remain engaged in their squalid south-east, offering advice, money and the ultimate prize of admission to the EU club.
