Sentence examples for private squalor from inspiring English sources

With the economy suffering, this "public affluence, private squalor" is causing real resentment.

Characters grieve – whether for massacred families, or unfaithful wives – but no one reveals mixed motives, those sneaky private squalors that make the living human truth.

If by the time Bill Clinton had settled comfortably into the White House it was no longer possible to pretend that everybody was as equal as everybody else, it was clear that all things bright and beautiful were to be associated with the word private, terminal squalor and toxic waste with the word public.

Imagine what he might accomplish in four more years -- perhaps single-handedly destroy the "consume and obey" ethos, the "private wealth, public squalor" culture, the "buy, baby, buy" business model, and leave America with a financial system of a never-before-seen humanitarian nature.

In the 1950s John Kenneth Galbraith bemoaned the existence of "private affluence and public squalor".

In 2018 the United Nations condemned the "private wealth and public squalor" in the United States.

As a result, contrasts between private wealth and public squalor abound.

Galbraith famously wrote, in 1958, of "an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor".

He means the America of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, with its private affluence and public squalor.

She had left a Britain marked by private affluence and public squalor.

The real problem is with your distinction between private wealth and public squalor, which is emotionally satisfying but false.