Sentence examples for with squalor from inspiring English sources

The preoccupation with squalor.

A neglected tribe, they were despised by those who didn't know them, were associated with squalor, cruelty, and incompetence.

"If you are willing to put up with squalor and danger in Kabul, you can live like a king in Dubai".

Through the window of the taxi one can see a Broadway bloated with squalor: filthy puddles, glaring lights, gusts of steam, oily storefronts.

In an 1895 issue of Architecture and Building, the critic Barr Ferree contended that skyscrapers were a vast improvement on the "little old houses of the back streets, filled with squalor and filth of every description".

'Are you at all acquainted with squalor?' " The second half of the story, the squalid part, takes place six weeks after V-E Day, in a house in Germany, the onetime home of a Nazi official.

"If we allow [this situation] to continue, we will end up with large areas of London filled with crap squalor, with jerry-built things at the back of houses," Wales says.

Scarlett's Sweet Violets is set within the macabre, painterly imagination of Walter Sickert, evoking the artist's fascination with urban squalor and with serial killer Jack the Ripper.

This is also the only time Valery Gergiev, one of the world's most sought-after conductors and the theater's artistic director, brings glamour to this gritty city with a pretty face, where czarist palaces share streets with Dickensian squalor, a city of giant potholes and columned facades, of high culture and low wages.

The contrast of the plush interior of the office with the squalor of the rest of the building was startling.

The film-makers are reluctant to deal frankly with the squalor and suffering that the mountaineers endured, or to explore their motives too closely.