It often felt contaminated by the grubbiness of partisan politics.
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Ms Hassan is not immune to the grubbiness and sectarianism of Lebanese politics.
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This will kill infectious microbes like, but it won't go that extra mile of removing grubbiness.
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But the film has its own strong identity, because its grubbiness is contrasted with surreal psychedelic touches.
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Because Starfleet has turned its back on Picard, he is no longer insulated from the grubbiness of capitalism.
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They called attention to the grubbiness and secrecy of these subsidies, which are, in their own way, anti-capitalist.
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The deep shadows, the mean co-workers, and the general grubbiness of Simon James' surroundings are all meant to make the corporate world look grimly dystopian.
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It also gives Blumhouse's output a sheen that's sometimes detrimental to the horror genre, where at least some grubbiness and disreputability is necessary, to make viewers uncomfortable.
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The film was an acutely observed insider's view of a profession that requires a strong constitution to withstand its humiliations and grubbiness, and to maintain a modicum of optimism.
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Richard Donner's kids-on-a-mission movie is beloved in some quarters today, and it has a certain authentic grubbiness that plenty of family films try their best to avoid.
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Multiply some of these concerns by at least two if you're in a romantic relationship with someone, and if you have young children, factor in their inevitable grubbiness as well.
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As Long Island City, which had bizarrely seemed doomed to eternal grubbiness despite its boffo view of the skyline, got MoMA PS1, Silvercup Studios and rents of $4,000 a month.
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Mueller has a carefully cultivated public image—an incorruptible public servant, a boy scout, the law man's law man—and works diligently to avoid contaminating it with any of the grubbiness of politics.
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With rare exceptions (like the noir-inflected "The Hood Maker" and the post-apocalyptic "Autofac"), the clothing and architecture doesn't have that common Blade Runner grubbiness, even in tales that take place in dark times.
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I think about the last time my hands were scrubbed clean with soap and water; I think about my phone, too, which is basically an extension of my hand, a greasy repository for the world's grubbiness.
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Mr. Christie remained the offstage villain, the Mephistopheles of Trenton, but it was impossible for even casual trial observers not to discern, from witness after witness, the evident viciousness and grubbiness of the governor and his administration.
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The splendour and the sordor is side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos.
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The graves of Peter Cheyney and his third wife Lauretta at Putney Vale Cemetery, London, in 2015 Cheyney's "Dark" series was widely praised during World War II for bringing more realism to espionage fiction. In their casual brutality and general "grubbiness," the "Dark" novels seem to have foreshadowed much of the Cold War fiction of the mid to late 1960s. Anthony Boucher placed these later works in the context of Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad. The characterisation of Ernest Guelvada in the "Dark" series is one of the high points of Cheyney's career.
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The unemployed Michael dabbles in cartoons and often wanders throughout the city to avoid family skirmishes and to artistically feed off the grubbiness of his environment. He regularly hangs out at a local bar where he gets free drinks from the female black bartender, Carole, in exchange for sketches of the somewhat annoying Shorty, Carole's violent, legless bouncer devotee. One of the regular customers at the bar, a nymphomaniac transvestite named Snowflake, gets beaten up by a tough drunk hard-hat who has only just realized that Snowflake is a man in drag and not a beautiful woman. Snowflake loves it, but the drunk causes property damage.
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Michael Hubbard of musicOMH dubbed the song "an all out visceral onslaught, a keening mix of battered synths, drum machines and Nick Zinner's typically bloodless guitar playing", and referred to it as "a mix of Show Your Bones cleaner production with the grubbiness of the Is Is EP". Evan Sawdey of PopMatters opined that "[n]o YYY's song has ever been as disposable, replayable, or just outright fun as 'Zero'". "Zero" was named the best track of 2009 by both the NME and Spin magazines, while Pitchfork ranked it the sixth best song of the year. In October 2011, the NME placed the song at number 39 on its list of the "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
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