Sentence examples for their squalor from inspiring English sources

In Dhaka, most of them live in mammoth slums that while deplorable for their squalor are notable for being less squalid than others.

A large, pristine plexiglass cube appears to drift, a few feet off the ground, among the shacks: the titular ghost, plainly, which haunts the world's innumerable shantytowns with utopian longings but can do nothing to relieve their squalor.

One can love cities better than any other kind of place, and even be extremely interested in their squalor, and still find, after navigating around one burst plastic bag too many, that one's faculties are no longer quite intact.

Instead, scattered villages within cities, often behind walls built to hide their squalor, and old state-owned apartment buildings have filled the gap.The villages have survived thanks to the haphazard expansion of Chinese cities, driven more by the whims of developers and local governments than by grand municipal plans.

As the subjects are shadowed in their squalor, the repentant parents and the sorrowful brothers and sisters and husbands and wives and friends are generally shot in the serene space of the studio against dark backdrops, a device the program deploys to distance itself from its melodrama.

Currently, high-rent neighborhoods characterized by affluence exist next to slums noted for their squalor and impoverished livelihoods.

Even in high-minded circles, compassion for the poor has always been mingled with fear of the poor, their alleged idleness and squalor, their ignorance, their propensity to breed more poor.

It was a funny transaction, the squatters marketing their picturesque squalor in order to inch their building closer to gentility.

But the arc of his narrative revisits many of the same locations and shows them as renovated spaces unrecognizable from their previous squalor.

The poor were thus redeemed from their own squalor and saved from the scourge of epidemic diseases like cholera and typhus.

Some were horrified at the idea of respectable mothers leaving their families for squalor and for politics.