Sentence examples for squalid death from inspiring English sources

There was nothing Hollywood slick about Billy the Kid's short life and squalid death.

Graceland, Elvis's home from 1957 until his squalid death in the bathroom, drew 700,000 people last year.

Much of book one is given over to shockingly frank depictions of his father's alcoholism and squalid death in a house shared with his incontinent and senile grandmother.

It can provide a relief from grave awkwardness, when the randomness of conversation has led down darker alleys than one had planned to traverse: to talk of personal terrors, tragedies in families, the sad or cruel or squalid deaths of once-promising friends.

In 1849 Edgar Allan Poe died a squalid and relatively obscure death.

There was a sudden gap between his warm, vulnerable public persona and the squalid reality of his death.

Those who had survived were rounded up and placed in concentration camps, where they were beaten and worked to death in squalid conditions.

When the Herero and Nama peoples of modern Namibia rebelled against German rule in 1904, for example, they were butchered, forced off their lands, their wells poisoned and the survivors imprisoned in concentration camps where they were often worked to death in squalid conditions.

At a national commemoration in Central Hall, Westminster, the pain of memory – of the squalid ghettoes, the inhuman Nazi death camps, of starvation and terror – was almost palpable as the first of 70 candles around Britain was lit.

Her seedy and untimely death would be of no more note than any other of those grim cautionary tales found in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon books, were it not for one key fact: this neglected actress, who killed herself in such a squalid manner, has a fair claim to have been the world's very first movie star.

But the squalid manipulations leading to Betty Short's death — timbers from old movie sets reused to build cheap, unsafe housing, and a clandestine trade in stag films — are mentioned in this movie only in passing; they come off as gaudy examples of Hollywood self-absorption and self-loathing.