Sentence examples for from squalor from inspiring English sources

Protecting the White House from scandal, not the troops from squalor, was the higher priority.

Made in 1950 , 1959and 1960, respectively, "Sunset Boulevard," "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment" are all darkly comic testimonials to the yearning to be cleansed, to be redeemed from squalor and shame.

"There are so many shows of Miami artists going on that we wanted to do something different," said Ms. Mertes, the curator, as we traverse Lincoln Road, rehabilitated in recent years from squalor into a hip South Beach pedestrian mall.

I am thus surprised – but after a few seconds not at all surprised – to hear how well this Palestinian from Jerusalem got on with the Imam Musa Sadr, the Shia leader in southern Lebanon who did more to lift his people from squalor than any I can think of – until Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had him murdered in Libya in 1978.

Ciaran O'Reilly and John Keating play boozing "Captain" Jack Boyle and his ne'er-do-well sidekick, Joxer Daly, with J. Smith-Cameron as Juno Boyle, the long-suffering matriarch whose dreams of delivering her children from squalor are dashed by misfortune.

Orwell was a brilliant and cultured man, with an Eton accent and an anomalous, vaguely French mustache, who wore the same beat-up tweed jacket nearly every day, made (very badly) his own furniture, and lived, most of the time, one step up from squalor.

Long before stealing boats and planes made him a marvel of elusiveness, an Internet antihero, Mr. Harris-Moore, 19, was suspected of stealing cookies and frozen pizza from the Kostelyk family, a few gravel roads from the squalor that was his home, a trailer on a dead end here, barely an hour from Seattle.

The late Italian author Luigi Barzini asked of Britain: "How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?" The story of Japan's rise from a backward country in the mid-nineteenth century to one of today's leading economic powers has been at least equally as dramatic.

But none of this does much to detract from the squalor and misery of the camp.

Ms. Amaya's habit of averting her eyes from the squalor at 716 Narragansett Avenue will soon end.

Perhaps it stemmed from the squalor in his neighborhood, a sprawling and rather depressing slum of tin-roofed houses.