Sentences with phrase «squalor of»

The small bits I do, like cleaning a bathroom, seem to disappear in the squalor of the rest of the house, and it's so depressing.

Standing in a refugee camp amidst the squalor of countless mud huts, I observed villagers waiting for hours to get their daily ration of water.

We drove through the rural sun - baked squalor of black Mississippi Delta towns, and the lily - white splendor of former antebellum towns.

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Will the squalor of life in the Have Not zones make the Have Nots even more envious of us?

A viewer can find dual associations with the opulence of Louis XIV and the squalor of wood laminate living.

The artist Hope Gangloff has developed a fervent following in recent years for her beautifully observed portraits of her friends, and for much of her career these captured vérité slices of life from the bohemian squalor of Brooklyn, where she lived and worked.

Michel Auder (France / US, 1944) has been observing the splendour and squalor of metropolitan life since the 1960s.

Oldenburg «s portrait conveyed not only the squalor of the neighborhood, but also the mysterious allure of its «bums» and «chicks,» its signage, and even its manhole covers.

There is no finer sport to the Pig - Men than the pursuit of screaming victims through the labyrinthine squalor of the Warrens.

Our battle will continue until every Kees is safe from the hazards and squalor of Marjorie's Kennel.

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.

In many cases, children found living among the squalor of neglected pets are taken into foster care.

The sights, sounds and yes even the squalor of Paris are wonderfully emoted by the author.

«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.

This textured historical novel, set in the opulence and squalor of Istanbul in 1826, is woven with the complexity and consequences of love.

We have entered a post-genomic era in which we yearn to create some kind of bio-scientifically engineered paradise where all sentient life can languish in some bovine stupor, in some chemically altered pseudo reality stage - managed by transnational psychotropic drug dealers who offer to chemically separate us from the emotional squalor of our Precambrian brain through a vast array of designer lifestyle drugs, where we sit in uninterrupted epiphanic bliss at the feet of a statue of a Quarter Pounder in some prosaic cobblestone courtyard at a secluded Ronald McDonald House next to an 18 - hole golf course, or in some kind of edenic trans - human extended epiphany in a university seminar room overflowing with just the correct mixture of a Leibnizian optimism and Nietzschean Dionysian pessimism.

The pranks of monosyllabic scamp James (William Eadie) form the core of the film, and we eventually learn that James wants nothing more than to abandon the squalor of the city and move to a new housing project next to a cornfield in which he can frolic.

Similarly, the crisp cuts of the editing team and the stark smudges of the music (particularly a plaintive trumpet) convey the desperation and moral squalor of the situation.

When an uncle offers his cottage, they escape the squalor of their flat for a week in the country.

Though messy and bloated, The Hateful Eight has its selling points: that cast, having a ball putting on a show; Tarantino's knowingly overripe dialogue and unfolding - narrative trickery; and photography — of epic Colorado scenery (standing in for Wyoming wilderness) and the frontier squalor of makeshift waystation Minnie's Haberdashery — by three - time Oscar winner Robert Richardson (JFK).

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

«Ratcatcher» Lynne Ramsay «s expressive and well - observed debut about a latchkey lad living in the squalor of 1970s Scotland during a garbage strike is breathtaking; a beautiful and raw slice of cinema vacillating back and forth between the gray and decrepit landscapes of poverty and negligent parents and the celebratory escape of imagination and play.

Andreas and Anna's idyllic river - side existence is so absurdly rose - tinted in comparison to the squalor of Tristan and Sanne's situation that it could only ever be a facade.

By comparison, though, the squalor of a drug den in a sleazy motel room is startlingly vivid.

When we do get a good look at the filth and squalor of Paris — at least the parts not inhabited by the wealthy (thus, most of the city)-- we see how appalling the quality of life is for the majority of Parisians and completely understand why there was an attempted revolution.

Whether it's the understated elegance of Roddy's Kensington digs, the cheerful squalor of Rita's family home or Toad's beloved collection of royal - family kitsch, the world of «Flushed Away» is consistently alive with color, texture, humor and feeling.

The squalor of the prison was noted by a watchdog in 2006.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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?