Sentence examples for physical squalor from inspiring English sources

There were seizures, bouts of incontinence, a long, slow steady descent into mental and physical squalor.

But the book's greatest strength lies in its precise, unsparing descriptions of the physical squalor and destitution of nineteenth-century downstairs life.

The arena and the public bath relieved some pressures of high density and physical squalor, but Rome's refined technology was applied haphazardly to the problems of urban social organization.

The collective portrait here is of a startlingly visceral New York, where physical squalor contributes to a pervasive sense of strangeness, captured in Laurie Anderson's "Words in Reverse": "I went to the movies and I saw a dog 30 feet high.

India reappears as the promise of redemption to rich Americans and also as a setting of physical squalor: of "interstate buses, piled on top with baggage and bundles and maybe a crate of chickens, some of them dying on the way" and "crowded with farmers, clerks, pregnant women carrying infants, and children vomiting out of the barred open windows through which dust and pollution flowed in".

Squalor, physical and mental, is evoked with a clarity only possible to a writer of fastidious intellectual assurance.

But I was impressed by the sustained elegance of what is on view set against the moral and physical filth and squalor just beyond the play's borders.

"The characters live in a condition of physical, moral and spiritual squalor that would, were they still alive, induce a suicidal despair in British directors like Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson and John Schlesinger, who set out in the early 1960s to make honest movies about working-class life".

Scores of Travellers removed from the Dale Farm site near Basildon in Essex 12 months ago have suffered mental or physical illness after being forced to live in "squalor" following the controversial eviction, according to a report by MPs.

Her finely drawn literary travelogues on Taganrog, Murmansk, Vologda, Irkutsk and other places depict squalor, pomp, misery, exhilaration, heroism and brutishness, each cameo framed in its historical, cultural and physical context.Some of the material comes from Molotov's books, others from Ms Polonsky's well-stocked mind.

Squalor everywhere.