Sentence examples for squalid subject from inspiring English sources

Kenny has done this with such disproportionate skill and tenderness that the image, while impressive, is way out of whack with its squalid subject matter.

His memoir-cum-how-to book is at once sublimely gruesome and sublimely hilarious, a masterful juxtaposition of sophisticated, even elegant prose with truly squalid subject matter.

Forced to listen to hours of Communist party propaganda aimed at their "rehabilitation and redemption", inmates are held in squalid conditions and subject to brutal interrogations.

Seldom have I seen a movie so – that detestable word, forgive me – uplifting and beautifully wrought about so squalid and agonising a subject.

In June, Human Rights Watch reported that 7,000 to 10,000 Kachin refugees were in China and subjected to squalid conditions and harsh treatment by officials.

"The violence of the border closure in Idomeni as well as the squalid living conditions people have been subjected to are themselves good enough reasons to decide to take collective action".

They had a somewhat restricted view in Sandymount, Dublin 4 of what was suitable reading for a schoolgirl in the late 1950s: my uncle had confiscated an Agatha Christie mystery from me, pronouncing the subject of murder to be "squalid" and "disedifying" for the tender consciences of a young lady.

The business is now subject to a contagious outbreak of squalid, banal, lazy and cowardly journalism whose only qualification is that it helps to make newspaper publishers (and some journalists) rich".

Many are subjected to unsafe working practices and squalid, unsanitary living conditions.

The government charges that more than 500 Indian men hired by Signal International of Alabama for rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina were confined in squalid camps, illegally charged for lodging and food, and subject to discrimination and abuse.

For example, in the case of Mr. Collier the issue was that his home was squalid.