Sentences with phrase «amid squalor»

Leesburg Humane Society workers spent a week in January amid the squalor of a Pine Hills trailer, rounding up neglected pets in one of Lake County's worst animal abuse cases.

Amid this squalor, this snow - white Corvette — wearing optional sixtieth - anniversary trim and decal stripes — looks fairly obscene, as out of place as a Rolls - Royce in the slums of Mumbai.

scenes of Martin as a boy (Eamonn Owens), coming of age and learning his criminal trade amid the squalor of post-WWII Dublin.

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.

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

«Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives,» Internal Medicine finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care.

Although never really able to spawn a discernible art movement, the Impasse nevertheless became a breeding ground for some of the most influential artistic breakthroughs of early 20th century art, no doubt fuelled by an insouciant atmosphere of invigorating rivalries, sexual relationship merry - go - rounds, creative inspiration, and artistic collaboration — all amid a carefree environment of Bohemian squalor.

Amid the heat, the dust, the squalor, the traffic, the ramshackle dwellings in the City of the Dead, and the row on row of «permanently» partially completed apartments (they pay tax once the building is finished, so they never finish them,), and of course, «bad dates» (beware the pharaoh's revenge), a few days in Cairo only reinforces my view that you have to leave Canada to appreciate it.