The alternative was to live as he did, in middle-class squalor, in married bachelorhood.
Samar's Brahmin pedigree holds him aloof from India's squalor but connects him to nothing else.
Once you are thrown into this deep uncertainty and squalor, the fraternity of the road takes over.
The group weaved its way to the city's train tracks, only barely visible amid the garbage and squalor.
But rarely has the contrast between the international prestige of Brazilian football and its domestic squalor been greater.
Teeth, complexions and clothes all evoke the prosperous Poland of today more than the squalor and hunger of 1945.
To William Beveridge it was about eradicating evil - the "giant evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.
Later, when she began writing books, she fostered no atmosphere at all other than genteel squalor and heavy drinking and gloom.
The choice, for many, is going hungry in the countryside or finding a job while living in squalor in the towns.
"Dead Souls" is a poem about Russia, its provincial backwaters, its secondary characters (clerks, minor officials, small landowners), its heartbreaking squalor.
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It is hard to believe that amid this urban squalor, a young entrepreneur is changing the lives of women in Nepal.
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He captures the way Russians are transformed by toasts, the romance of long-distance train rides and the squalor of train stations.
That may have been the case, and the hardcore squalor of "Boogie Nights" may have been an overstatement in the other direction.
In Manningham, there is excited discussion about another group, who are said to live ten to a house in conditions of squalor.
He wants the revenue from his proposed tax to clean up America's public squalor, which has bothered certain economists ever since J.
She tweeted that the men were living in squalor and grim conditions.
In Nouakchott itself, around 700, 000 people, most of them living in squalor, must make do with facilities and services designed for 100, 000.
In this squalor they sought salvation but death stalked them here.
Since last year things have gone from bad to worse, as Britain's media have rounded on Heathrow for its embarrassing chaos and squalor.
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Close to the Bowery on 97 Orchard Street, the Tenement Museum of New York recreates the lives of emigrants struggling with urban squalor.
The overall effect of all this was of a long-term but makeshift camping site and the overwhelming impression I had was one of squalor.
Yet their lives take on a surreal, and eerily fascinating, squalor.
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The director plays that concept for raucous farce and rippling horror, and with his masterly editor, Freeman Davies, pulls off kinetic strokes in the midst of squalor.
Both women were said to be suffering from Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, which is characterised by such actions as compulsive hoarding of rubbish.
Rising wages and falling food prices meant that workers, eager to escape the squalor of their lives, now had a few extra pence with which to buy oblivion.
The brazenness of the schemes is breathtaking, the squalor enraging.
To prepare for trials, she followed police into tenement shooting galleries, scaled rickety staircases in dilapidated buildings and fought off the stench of squalor to talk to reluctant witnesses.
As we walked to the lake in our heavy boots and clothes, I could feel his irritation at the bugs and the brightness, the squalor of nature in his fastidious eyes.
The urban poor living in such settlements under terrible conditions of squalor, crime, and insecurity now make up 30-40%t of the population of cities such as Manila, Jakarta, Mexico City, and Lagos.
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