Sentence examples for squalid history from inspiring English sources

A sunny day on the water is also a fine time to contemplate the river's squalid history.

Yet this squalid history is not necessarily a reason for scrapping the existing constitution.If it contains racist language, so does the US constitution, which defines blacks as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of census-taking.

We don't yet know the art historical value of the collection, but we do know the squalid history of the war.

­Novels and stories, even poems, are helplessly built from the imperfect stuff: language, history, squalid human incident and dream.

There isn't a logical revelation in sight, so it's a long way from Ray Van Sant's Cobain spends his last moments in a kind of squalid limbo, avoiding his history, his family, his management, his band, avoiding the hangers-on that creep close to him, avoiding himself.

Sherrill Tippins explores the history of the eccentric, sometimes squalid hotel-come-legend that hosted writers, actors, artists, musicians - including Andy Warhol's crew - and became an icon of American counterculture.

To dip a toe into an alternative history, write my own backstory, go one better than the squalid truth.

He is the perfect illustration of the squalid state of political money, spending sums greater than any political donation in history to advance his personal, ideological and financial agenda, which is wildly at odds with the nation's needs.

And yet as we read about Darfur and Mogadishu today and recall Rwanda and Sierra Leone not long ago, or Biafra and Congo further back, we realize that these vicious, bitter African conflicts have left their trace on contemporary history, and on contemporary consciousness, in ways somehow different from the usual squalid reckoning that modern warfare encourages.

At the beginning of yet another squalid sexual encounter, he explains how he once put on a CD showcase of the history of black music, only to find himself suddenly getting Scott Joplin's The Entertainer as accompaniment.

The only clue to its place in history is a collection of faded newspaper cuttings on the wall of a squalid first-storey room, all of which show Nelson Mandela – for it was here that the former South African president and his friend Oliver Tambo opened the country's first black law firm in 1952.