Sentence examples for squalid figure from inspiring English sources

Our compassion is complex, and what ultimately complicates it is the fear that this lonely, squalid figure could be us.

The passage was full of squalid, grey-shirted figures".

Mr. Lubbers noted that it was difficult to urge Pakistani ministers to give better treatment to Afghanis crammed into squalid camps "when some public figures in far richer industrialized countries treat asylum seekers like a modern-day version of the Plague rat".

But despite the gloomy figures, the place is far from squalid.

The ploughboy behind the plough was to know his Bible, thought Tyndale, and the ploughboy was not a romantic figure but one of the lowliest and most squalid members of the rural underclass.

Tip!" Joe is often also referred to by the name "Sackerson", and Kitcher describes him as "a figure sometimes playing the role of policeman, sometimes a squalid derelict, and most frequently the odd-job man of HCE's inn, Kate's male counterpart, who can ambiguously indicate an older version of HCE".

The Democrats in general and Senator Clinton in particular have to figure out how to disengage from this last and most squalid outrage.

Leibovitz drew close enough to Virginia Woolf's writing desk to see not only big circles of black ink (Leonard Woolf described her as "not merely untidy but squalid") but also traces of light blue paint and the faint figures of a duck, a grid, and a sailboat carved into the wood.

The London she moved through was – it was suggested – both a physical and a moral maze, a warren of squalid streets marked by odd visions: a grubby angel with swan's wings on his back, a crow-headed figure, a dying horse down on the cobbles.

His apartment was squalid.

Today, Lago Agrio feels squalid.