Sentences with phrase «squalor with»

Bellamy soon relocated to Manhattan, where he lived in bohemian squalor with his future wife Nancy Christopherson, the first in a series of long - suffering partners.

Faced with the options of either staying a peasant living in squalor with his wife or leaving to take his chances on the high sea's hoping to bring a fortune home so they can have a proper life Edward chooses to risk life and limb for his only chance to make something of himself out on the open sea.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Home affairs select committee chair Yvette Cooper said: «The home secretary knows that what she is doing is shameful... How does she live with herself, leaving thousands of children subject to disease, people trafficking, squalor and hopelessness?»

Rats have long been one of the world's most ubiquitous — and infamous — forms of urban wildlife, synonymous with pestilence and squalor.

It's a good rate, and as Mulembakani and his INRB entourage are waved through to meet with the nuns who operate the facility, dozens of ailing patients lie on mats outside the gates, begging for the copay, on the threshold between the squalor outside and the orderly hospital wards.

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.

With Love and Squalor certainly won't change pop music as we know it, but it packs surprisingly huge melodies and shamelessly danceable beats.

When Christine'a hears Donald J. Trump making a pitch to «the African - Americans» who he believes live in unrelieved squalor, she responds with disgust: «You have no idea how we live.»

Laing's calm tones are at odds with the squalor and anarchy around him, and serve to set the scene as the film flashes back to three months earlier, and Laing's initial move into a sophisticated new tower block.

Through Solomon, then, McQueen forces the viewer to behold the slaves» degradation, anguish, and physical suffering, just as he did with the Maze Prison's miasmic squalor in Hunger and the pathological self - loathing of sex addiction in Shame, each film a prolonged howl of despair prompted by the horror of literal or spiritual imprisonment.

Geremia de» Geremei (Giacomo Rizzo) is a tailor who lives with his disabled mother (Clara Bindi) in a rundown apartment that seems to redefine squalor.

It feels like a video game as the kids run from one chase scene to another fetching objects — get the key, find the locker, get the Bible, break the code — advancing every time to the next level with little sense of a story moving forward, and leaving a gimmicky aftertaste given all the real - life squalor onscreen.

It's hard not to empathize with this troubled teen and his equally mercurial mother, but the writer - director undercuts his characters by wallowing in classist squalor

DVD Details: Director Lynne Ramsay made one of the great directorial debuts of the 90s with this astonishing portrait of longing in a world of Glasgow squalor.

But with its dark, grimy Dickensian squalor (courtesy of one of Shepperton Studios» most authentic sets — now sadly dismantled), Oliver Reed's memorably chilling arch crim Bill Sikes, and at least one shocking murder, the film also displayed a level of foreboding darkness capable of scaring the bejesus out of younger viewers.

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.

A short fiction passage from J.D. Salinger's «For Esme: With Love And Squalor» is aimed at students who are in tenth grade and above.

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

The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game — and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands.

«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.

While it will likely appeal most to music fans eager to see how this iconoclastic singer / songwriter (and author of the 2001 short story collection Doghouse Roses) will fare in the literary sweepstakes, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive deserves praise for the way it captures both the squalor and the community spirit of a down - and - out enclave populated with lively, believable characters.

Her life is a horror: living in squalor, taking care of her abusive father, driving an old car with an exhaust problem that forces her to leave the windows open, even during those frigid New England winters.

While it will likely appeal most to music fans eager to see how this iconoclastic singer / songwriter will fare in the literary sweepstakes, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive deserves praise for the way it captures both the squalor and the community spirit of a down - and - out enclave populated with lively, believable characters.

This rescue, along with the 13 other we've done in the past 3 years, demonstrates the need for stronger laws in North Carolina to prevent someone from forcing dogs to spend their lives in squalor, without access to clean food and water.

Thanks to a special response team with the San Diego Humane Society, the dogs are no longer living in cramped conditions and squalor.

With cats being brought into the home and kittens being born in the home, it is not long before there are an unbelievable number of felines living in squalor and misery.

Most of these animals live in crammed cages with no room to move, in complete and utter squalor.

Dog breeding kennels were on the rise in Holmes County with nearly 10,000 dogs living in squalor by 2008.

Travel to India and you will love it and hate it, rejoice in its beauty and become disheartened with its squalor, fall in love with...

While Stella's «Black Paintings» like The Marriage of Reason and Squalor eliminated depth, the layering of paint also grew darker in the 1970s and 1980s with Brice Marden and Sean Scully.

The connection between such an image and Mr. Bickerton's «commercial pieces» of the 1980s isn't obvious, but it could have to do with the collision of squalor and luxury.

While Stella's paintings were indeed concerned with the purity of abstract visual experience, the titles of his works were often extremely resonant, frequently alluding to specific places («Arundel Castle»), historical figures («Avicenna»), or grand themes («The Marriage of Reason and Squalor»).

Artists Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe will transform Chelsea's Marlborough Gallery into a «junkyard fantasy» as part of their latest project, which hosts a grimy subterranean world with elements of sci - fi and squalor, described by Freeman as the debris after «some horrible event had happened and everyone had to evacuate.»

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

Even if you trim off the ends of the curve of squalor and overindulgence, you end up with a huge energy gap, which may already be what is helping drive up oil and coal prices (keep in mind most experts on fossil fuels I talk to see no signs of «peak coal» any time soon).

Mankind has been blessed with huge supplies of coal and oil, which made it possible to lift ourselves up from the cold, dark, 70 % child mortality rates and general squalor that typified the human condition 400 years ago.

Credit where credit is due, George has finally grasped the fact that human and environmental interests are at odds with one another, and that the consequences of putting humans second are squalor and misery.

Why not just put up a lemonade stand with free banana muffins while you vaccuum and paint your hillbilly neighbours squalor.