Sentence examples for tragic squalor from inspiring English sources

The tragic squalor of her demise concluded a life that was essentially comic in its zest, and the songs, by some miracle, seemed to predict the former even as they revelled in the latter.

And the close may be haunted by the eponymous Mary King - there are ghost stories centuries old, for which the swamp gas drifting up from the lake provides the most plausible explanation - but she was no tragic medieval waif starving in squalor and darkness.

In "Puppy," a woman whose marriage has lifted her from dysfunctional roots is so horrified by a poor family's squalor that she finds empathy impossible, with tragic results.

Squalor everywhere.

"It was borderline squalor".

But squalor connects.

"It was squalor, mayhem.

The preoccupation with squalor.

I thrive on squalor".

Where's the squalor?

Just tragic".