| The musicals of the '30s are enjoyable, in part because they don't dwell on misfortune and squalor and poverty. |
| They live in appalling squalor with very little food, shelter or medical supplies. |
| He supplies a grand moral sententiousness blessedly free from the messy squalor of life as it's lived here, I suppose. |
| Humans are marvellously adaptable, aren't they, even to squalor and exitless madhouses. |
| What, then, is one to make of Moore's insistent theme that readers of his books are doomed to squalor? |
| He claimed his father had kept her in squalor and fed her on mushy peas and oatmeal while siphoning off her millions. |
