Sentence examples for the most squalid from inspiring English sources
By Winthrop Sargeant The New Yorker, March 14 , 1959P. 91 The word referred to by psychologists as algolagnia means deriving a perverse joy from inflecting or submitting to the most squalid sort of human suffering.
But a generation of cynical, short-termist politicians has turned ethnicity into a poisonous national obsession, Nairobi's slums are the most squalid in Africa, and the vision required to defuse the frustrations of the young population trapped in them is noticeable by its absence.
Certainly L.B.J. tried to get to him, as he got to so many other young men — with that ominous "Greetings" letter conscripting them into the military — but clever Mr. Clinton managed to wriggle out of that predicament and go on to wealth and power, instead of having his future put at risk in the most squalid, ruinous and futile of Johnson's Brobdingnagian federal projects.
Mr. Seidl's immaculate visual style (here ably assisted by the great cinematographer Ed Lachman), which somehow manages to create order out of even the most squalid mess, could not be more different from that of the considerably more freewheeling Mr. Akin.
I mean the actual process of deciding what to take, packing, getting to the airport two hours early without what you could call a ticket, just a floppy piece of paper, taking off your shoes, having your nail scissors confiscated and then sitting about in the most squalid place imaginable until your flight is called.
A telling moment comes in the two accounts of perhaps the most squalid of the recent revelations: a letter from Elsa's daughter, Ilse, claiming that Einstein had dallied with both mother and daughter and left it to them to decide which would become his bride.
The ploughboy behind the plough was to know his Bible, thought Tyndale, and the ploughboy was not a romantic figure but one of the lowliest and most squalid members of the rural underclass.
It destroyed his home, pushing him and his wife and three children into one of the city's most squalid camps, in the Pétionville hills.
But considering that the 416 new apartments in the resurrected Prince George Hotel on East 28th Street, which will reopen today after standing vacant for a decade, belong to what was one of the city's most squalid welfare hotels, the new surroundings are downright luxurious.
On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the irt is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.
He was its lead counsel in the notorious long-running Willowbrook case in the 1970's, exposing one of the world's largest and most squalid institutions for the mentally retarded, on Staten Island.
