| They live in appalling squalor with very little food, shelter or medical supplies. |
| It's worth a look if only for its very British, near-Dickensian combo of squalor, social comment and comic grotesquerie. |
| Last year's Nobel Prize winner gives us the horror and the squalor, the dislocation and the dread that are the legacy of empire. |
| I cannot recall another such memorial which so succinctly embraces the horror, waste and inglorious squalor of its theme. |
| What, then, is one to make of Moore's insistent theme that readers of his books are doomed to squalor? |
| They were always richly decorated and well furbished, not the squalor and darkness you would expect. |
