Sentences with phrase «dickensian squalor»

Netflix description: «In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3 % saved from squalor.»

It was created in an effort to stop rampant epidemics and child deaths amid the grinding poverty and squalor of Victorian England.

Being legal means you can come out of hiding, move away from squalor, and search for work across the country without fear of arrest.

In Dickinson's first episode on March 19, she went in to evaluate Queen Street West retail store Lavish & Squalor and Ottawa's fair trade sugars and chocolate company Camino.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

Deepest squalor.

Squalor.

1.2 billion catholics, the majority of which live in squalor in 3rd world countries.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

And behind such theological and cosmic questions was always the more immediate, inescapable fact of man's stupidity, squalor, futility, and sin, seeming to deny outright a high estimate of his worth.

Firsthand experiences in the squalor of the London slums made the founder, William Booth, and his fellow Salvationists keenly sensitive to the problem.

However, while highlighting the poor quality of life of children in stories such as Oliver Twist and Little Dorrit, authors at that time did not follow today's pro-abortion attitude — namely that it is cruel to let children be born into squalor.

One of American fiction's most attractive characters is the 13 - year - old Esme in J. D. Salinger's «For Esme — With Love and Squalor»; her unaffected charm and solicitude rescue the soldier - narrator from a World War II emotional and spiritual hell.

The story concerned the Akhdam, the lowest social caste in Yemen, supposedly descended from Ethiopians left behind when the ancient Ethiopian empire was driven out of Arabia in the sixth century, who live in the most unimaginable squalor.

But with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the urban setting became known as the site of disease, pollution, crime, squalor and ugliness.

He comes to us in beauty and in squalor, in joy and in pain.

Just after the Civil War, bright young American literati exposed to the new surge of scholarship at continental universities came home only to be dismayed by the lethargy and intellectual squalor of their no - longer almae matres.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

A good picture of the general squalor, cynicism, and despair in Soviet life was provided by a documentary film Tak Zhit Nel» zya (roughly «We can't go on living like this»), which was released into movie theaters in the summer of 1990.

Indeed, in some African cities such as Addis Ababa and Ibadan, somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of the population will live in shantytown squalor.

he lived in squalor, ate with the help of friends, but our preachers live in mansions.

To be sure, many places are not developing so rapidly, and areas of squalor and grinding poverty remain.

The diet produced by mass production and mass marketing, our civic and commercial architecture, our consumer goods, our style of dress, our popular entertainments, and so forth — it all seems to have a kind of premeditated aesthetic squalor about it, an almost militant indifference to the distinction between quantity and quality.

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

Those who survive face a life of squalor and misery.

When a church constructs a palace for God in the middle of squalor, filth, sickness, death, and poverty, what are the people learning about God?

How else can I make sense of that complacent love of moral squalor, that luxuriant triteness, that was the single spiritual achievement of that age?

Some of our foreign workers can end up living in squalor, five or six men and women sharing a room, exploited by their landlords, exploited by employers.

I discovered that the oxen and people were drinking water from the same source and that they were sleeping on bunks that had no mattress and were living in absolute squalor.

Birth, new life, coming into existence in the midst of physical squalor, economic impoverishment, and daily terror.

They live in squalor and take pride in their «traditions.»

Particularly in the complexity of antagonist Ruth Langmore (newcomer Julia Garner, who may be on her way to becoming the next Jennifer Lawrence), a scrappy teenager who lives in squalor with her drunk uncles due to her father's imprisonment.

To fail in the dominant competition is to be reduced to squalor.

Royce was born on November 20, 1855, amid the squalor of a mining camp in Grass Valley, California, and he never lost in his later years at Harvard the intimidating sense of being a rube among the roses.

Poverty, illness, squalor — these are regarded as the just punishment for the failures in society of those who by definition are sinners.

Discomfort and annoyance, hunger and wet, pain and cold, squalor and filth, cease to have any deterrent operation whatever.

He recounts testimony to the effect that one can revel in courage when one engages in a perilous foray, but that courage inevitably seeps away, except among psychopaths, in the grind and squalor of trench warfare.

And so an attitude of passive tolerance of social situations where millions of poor live in utter squalor has been implicitly supported as acceptable by a theology or theodicy that has «justified» suffering in its understanding of humanity and God.

Historians say sport is an opiate a temporay escape for the masses scraping through life in filthy squalor in post industrial revolution society.

The animals were starving, diseased and living in terrible squalor; Elsie and her foal were both very poorly, but thankfully they pulled through.

The kids were living in squalor, existing amidst rotting food and feces.

The union writes that Nestle «massacred the workers» ability to work and robbed them of their rights, but gave them a few miserable dollars so that they can die slowly in misery and squalor».

Sometime between living in squalor during those not - so - clean college days and moving in with your S.O., you went from a total mess to neat and tidy.

On the one hand, how would want, ignorance, idleness, squalor, ill health and war be combated by this change?

«On both occasions, I was shocked to see the extreme levels of squalor and poor habitation in the area, caused largely by rogue landlords neglecting their duties and exploiting tenants.»

Meanwhile, children and the elderly go on living in squalor.

William Beveridge sought to overcome the five giant evils of squalor, want, ignorance, idleness and disease.

The public loves a poor politician who rises above squalor, and a rich politician who has the common touch.

As the Jubilee weekend squelched to a close, our status as New Elizabethans cemented by the juxtaposition of splendour and squalor at London Bridge, some commentators got a bit over-excited.

Faced with an unaffordable housing market, forced to live in squalor, with tax break cuts and benefits slashed and inequality rates rising, it's no small wonder that some chose to channel their frustrations in violent or otherwise extremist ways in a pursuit of meaning.