Sentence examples for the current squalor from inspiring English sources

Who would not have preferred Stephen Geary's domed Cosmos Institute, containing a global diorama, to the current squalor of London's Leicester Square?

The ballroom was a dining hall, social service office and basketball court in the 1980's when the Prince George housed 1,700 people -- four times the current population -- in notorious squalor and danger.

For now, the road captures both the splendor and the squalor of Guyana's isolation.

She seemed untouched by the mud and the squalor.

There are many photojournalists that have gone to document the despair and the squalor and dirt of many First Nations.

The South Carolina Republican presidential debates exemplify the squalor and extremism of current conservatism.

Here, the grandeur of the architecture is equalled only by the squalor of the food.

From the outside everything looked neat, but behind the fences was all the squalor.

In "American Notes" (1842), Charles Dickens affectingly described the squalor of the Five Points slum in what became Chinatown.

In most directions, apartment blocks, factories and monuments can be seen, making the squalor all the more incongruous.

In his depiction of the Petersburg background, Dostoyevsky accentuates the squalor and human wretchedness that pass before Raskolnikov's eyes.