Sentence examples for squalor of a from inspiring English sources

Bang Tidy Music was started in the squalor of a student house by two best friends in Uxbridge.

Now Father Mario lives side by side with his Congolese congregants in the squalor of a refugee camp in southern Sudan, struggling to get schooling for their children.

It's a long way from the fear and pain and squalor of a six-by-four cell in Hanoi to the Oval Office.

But what these women were describing was squalor – of a kind that Henry Mayhew and the other Victorians would have recognised.

So the squalor of a thoroughly trashed Dodge Dart on a gloomy gray street is relieved by the feverishly lush red of the car's body.

Putin grew up in the shared squalor of a city — Leningrad, formerly and now St . Petersburg— that had, eight years before he was born, emerged from the abject suffering of a horrific Nazi siege.

Both Proffitt and fellow North Carolina musician Doc Watson sang the older version of the tune, which had "a lively mocking tempo...that retained some of the ghastliness and moral squalor of an actual murder", according to folk historian Robert Cantwell, who also notes that the Kingston Trio's version of the song left out several verses from the traditional lyric.

NEW DELHI — To walk through the squalor of Mayapuri, a grimy industrial area of hundreds of tiny scrap-metal shops, is to bear witness to the industrial detritus of the world: tons of rusted iron pipes, twisted steel poles, copper and other discarded metals from Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States, as well as from India.

Abberline's initial hallucination even plays like a lurid music video: the squalor of the streets; a red glob of blood becoming a sprig of red grapes; a mutilated, lifeless body; a long knife flashing toward a breast.

We sometimes think that the historical imagination is the gift of seeing past — seeing past the surface squalors of an era to the larger truths.

Rembrandt expresses the moral squalor of luxury through a stupefying excess of painterly richness.