Sentence examples for squalor without from inspiring English sources

The aim of his committee's discussions which also looked at housing rents, and why working-class women spent more than men on clothing was to set benefits at "subsistence" level: preventing squalor without promoting idleness.

"The people writing the memoirs are artists who were very much visible in their twenties and early thirties," Kraus notes, while her own New York story is about living in squalor without the success.

The country is an almost textbook example of what some refer to as the "paradox of plenty": it sits atop some of the most significant untapped mineral reserves in the world while its people live in squalor, without clean water, electricity, education or infrastructure.

"If in the aftermath," he said, "we leave the Iraqi people to fend for themselves in chaos and squalor without more freedom or opportunity, we will end up hindering, not advancing, the wider war against terrorism and slowing, not speeding, the world's march toward democracy and the rule of law".

He found them living in sin and squalor without a church of their own and decided it was his mission to help them.

Perhaps this is because, as the British writer Aldous Huxley put it in 1947, "All [Goya] shows us is war's disasters and squalors, without any of the glory or even picturesqueness".

All he shows us is war's disasters and squalors, without any of the glory or even picturesqueness".

American television is more squeamish about stereotypes — the Chicago Gallaghers live a life of petty crime in sordid squalor, but they speak without accents or vicious slurs.

Returning along the same street I passed the Stabian Baths, which give a better idea of the Roman life of pleasure without the squalor.

Fan is a picture of promise in the midst of the squalor, taking in everything without judgment as she keeps watch for her one-legged father or being girlishly giddy as she and her little sister bathe dogs.

The idea was to transform the unregulated character of the urban village into something more formal and humane — to extract the essence of its character without romanticizing the squalor.