Sentence examples for squalid world from inspiring English sources

We are entertained, but we see this squalid world clearly.

In this squalid world dominated by the gods, sex and corruption are the only means of survival.

The case has laid bare a tough, often squalid, world in which the two men were able to operate outside the law for more than four years.

But as a light-hearted, insiderish account of the squalid world of celebrity, PR, drugs, drink and impossibly small skirts, does My Canapé Hell work?

Surrounded by a perpetual rock'n'roll circus, Guinness was plunged into the sometimes squalid world that revolved around her parents' unconventional lifestyle.

As Gordon and Cynthia tumble into a squalid world where they focus more and more on each other, things get worse.

It happened "out there", in a squalid, brutalised world we don't want to imagine or understand.

It tells the story of an idealistic, prickly English girl who works in Austrian refugee camps in the late 1940s.The plot and characterisation are tosh, but the background, drawn with unselfconscious precision, gives an extraordinarily convincing picture of the squalid, fearful world of displaced-person camps, administered by worn-out soldiers in a ruined country.

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 world needed a more powerful antidote to combat the boredom, menopause, frigidity, hypocrisy, censorship, superficiality, the obvious, and the squalid reality.

If love could find a footing in "the strange, decadent, squalid and eccentric world of Rembrandt's widowerhood," might there be hope for Aldous Jones?