Sentences with phrase «squalid scenes»
Yet, clearly, all this acting - out, which has been going on in his work since the 1970s, doesn't work, because he always ends up in the same place, forever re-enacting the same squalid scenes.
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In what must surely rank as one of the most squalid seduction scenes in literature, Charlotte's Spartan self - confidence is overcome by a combination of alcohol, a handsome frat boy's flattery, and her own ambivalent yearnings to be noticed and envied.
Set amongst squalid refugee camps, various scenes show audacious visions of the horrors that have occurred in Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Chechnya.
When not slumming in the streets, he's duking it out in the squalid East End as a bare - chested combatant in scenes resembling outtakes from «Fight Club.»
Married life and the social scene in the most fashionable city on earth is everything Anna hoped it would be, but when Emile vanishes without trace and she is evicted, Anna is forced to discover the city's poverty - stricken dark side of harsh streets and squalid tenements, where the temptation for a penniless young lady to become a kept woman is overwhelming.