Sentence examples for squalid reality from inspiring English sources
There was a sudden gap between his warm, vulnerable public persona and the squalid reality of his death.
Anna Hazare offers his country a mirror: here is the squalid reality behind your prosperity, he says – and here is the cure.
It remains to be seen how they will react to the squalid reality of the trial, especially if Mr Berlusconi appears in person.Recent Italian prime ministers have presented the world with some extraordinary spectacles.
The second explores Ulrich's response: a dream life which he creates as an old man out of the disasters that have befallen him, and which becomes more important to him than the squalid reality that surrounds him.
It's an ideology that is explicitly based on a refusal to compromise with squalid reality, and dedicated to cheerleading for war whenever one looks practical, and a rather coarse and unattractive self-aggrandisement of the US at the expense of all other countries (particularly Muslim ones) at all other times.
Sarah Wise's meticulously researched excavation of this forgotten corner of ignominy is at times heavy-going, but by setting individual stories against the social and political conditions that created and sustained Victorian slums she breathes life into the squalid reality of the Old Nichol and the events that eventually led to its demolition.
At best these are token gestures towards the squalid realities of the porn industry, and our increasingly pornographic society.
Peña Nieto often speaks like an actor playing a stereotypical President on a television show: talking about the legitimate use of force as though phrases like that have a magical power to insulate him from the squalid realities of authoritarian power brutally and lawlessly wielded, and of a government hopelessly compromised.
Gatsby yearned to make these squalid realities unreal, and so establish as an accepted fact the image he had created of himself.
What Corby Development Corporation had to offer in housing – with hot and cold running water and central heating and your own front door and even gardens – was a thousand times better than the squalid and miserable reality of what was being left behind.
And so Dom had gone, but now, sitting on this couch in Jerome's squalid living room, watching reality TV, he had an overwhelming urge to see them one last time, to wrap his arms around them, to try to make amends.
