She was oddly energized by the sordidness of her task.
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Every day, new revelations about the Ukraine sordidness come to light.
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Intellectually he wishes to "gild what felt more and more like the sordidness" of his time with Mitko.
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Despite months of digging, though, they may have only scratched the surface of Trump's public and private sordidness.
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The dining room was a festive place, but the kitchen was almost Dickensian in its sordidness and gloom.
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"Inevitably, there will be those who object to the sordidness of background, and the unrelieved starkness of this book," Spectorsky wrote.
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No matter who the Democratic nominee is, the sordidness of Trump's tactics, like the crudeness of his invective, is a given.
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DOUTHAT: I agree; this is a definite downswing, a return of certain kinds of presidential sordidness and their exacerbation on certain fronts.
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Editorial The Maldives is a curious half-paradise, half-hell: The allure of its romantic island resorts often seems to be in inverse proportion to the sordidness of its politics.
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Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills dive into the sordidness of the Long Island serial killer case, in which multiple prostitutes have been murdered, hunting for suspects and clues along the way.
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By the time it's through, the filmmakers, Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills, have poked into murders in places like New Jersey, Florida and New Mexico and taken viewers through a gantlet of sordidness.
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But Robinson's story must hew to Dawson's, so the climax and denouement belong to the downstairs circus of the governess, Hélène, and her paramour, Dr. McDow, who stain the manse with sordidness and frivolity.
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Both the documentary and the movie make note that the courtroom was filled with young women who were oddly drawn to the case, through a combination of Bundy's good looks and the sordidness of his crimes.
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But with the daily dump from Wikileaks of the Podesta emails now in its seventh installment — and with much more promised to come — the sheer sordidness and cynicism of the corrupt Clinton machine is becoming harder to ignore.
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While enduring insults about his family and his citizenship, he won landmark progressive victories—including the expansion of health-care access to millions of Americans—all without a hint of sordidness or scandal, and then he campaigned tirelessly for Clinton.
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He also grows close to Napoli's ultras—the hardcore, thuggish fans who battle the hardcore, thuggish fans of other clubs—yet their sordidness, blending elements of fascism, racism, and mafia corruption, just slides off him like so much mud on the pitch.
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Stephanie — who is played by Blake Lively, gamely giving the sordidness her all — is entertaining a client (Raza Jaffrey) who just wants to talk, in this case about the fact that the plane crash that killed Stephanie's family wasn't because of mechanical failure but a terrorist bomb.
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It may sound odd given that this show's sordidness has been one of my chief obstacles to taking "The Alienist" as seriously as its creators surely wish, but I found myself wishing that one of the episode's most upsetting story lines had been handled with more frankness, not less.
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Though "Robin," at upwards of 500 pages, is exhaustively reported and doesn't shy away from the abundant messiness in Williams's personal life, it never crosses the threshold from critical assessment into bonkers character assassination, as Albert Goldman's similarly epic "The Lives of John Lennon" did, nor does it marinate in sordidness, as "Wired," Bob Woodward's hit-and-run narcobiography of John Belushi, did.
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It would need to go after her, instead, at the intersection of policy and character — by linking the Bernie-Hillary difference on financial reform to the sordidness of the Clinton Foundation's global fund-raising, for instance, or by tying her recklessness with State Department emails to the fecklessness of the Libya intervention, and then linking that intervention to the issue that helped cost her the Democratic nomination in 2008, her Iraq-era hawkishness.
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Wall Street Journal. 19 July 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2015 and with a cultural milieu that mixes exceptional sophistication with equally remarkable sordidness. Justine is portrayed by Durrell in a manner which 'mirrors' Alexandria in all of its complexities, with its mixture of elegance and extreme poverty, and its ancient Arab ways co-mingled with modern European mores.
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In his dictionary, Noah Webster defined meanness as "want of excellence", "want of rank", "low estate", "lowness of mind", and "sordidness, niggardliness, opposed to liberality or charitableness" pointing out that "meanness is very different from frugality". These, in particular the final one, largely summarize the aspects of the classical definition of meanness that have been propounded by philosophers, Aristotelian and otherwise, over the centuries.
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With the emergence of a commercial society, Bernard Mandeville proposed the paradox that social and economic advance depended on private vices – on what he called the sordidness of selfishness.Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (1970) pp. 81–83, 410 Adam Smith with the concept of the invisible hand saw the economic system as usefully channelling selfish self- interest to wider ends;M. Skousen, The Big Three in Economics (2007) p.
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Victorians typically were disapproving of the times of the previous era. By the late 19th century, the "Georgian era" was a byword for a degenerate culture. Nicholas Dixon, "From Georgian to Victorian", History Review (Dec 2010), Issue 68. Charles Abbey in 1878 argued that the Church of England: :partook of the general sordidness of the age; it was an age of great material prosperity, but of moral and spiritual poverty, such as hardly finds a parallel in our history.
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The influence of certain Norwegian, Swedish and Russian writers gave an added impulse to the naturalistic movement. The novels and short stories of Guy de Maupassant are often tagged with the label "naturalist", although he clearly followed the realist model of his teacher and mentor, Flaubert. Maupassant used elements derived from the gothic novel in stories like Le Horla. This tension between portrayal of the contemporary world in all its sordidness, detached irony and the use of romantic images and themes would also influence the symbolists (see below) and would continue to the 20th century.
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An army veteran known only as Gagin travels to San Pablo, a rural New Mexican town, to avenge the death of his old war time buddy. As a man devoid of identity, some of the villagers refer to Gagin as "the man with no place." A common theme in noir films is the post-war disillusionment experienced by many soldiers returning to a peacetime economy, which was mirrored in the sordidness of the urban crime film. In these films a serviceman returns to find his sweetheart unfaithful or a good friend dead.
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The film was released by the Cohen Media Group on DVD and Blu-ray in 2019. Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times said that "Whether the arc of Marya's fate feels overly engineered to you or not, Quartet retains its power to unsettle in its accumulation of cuts and bruises, the rare Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala effort that mines a glamorized past not for nuanced dignity but for a kind of elegant, honest sordidness." On aggregator Metacritic, the film got a score of 62% (based on 7 critics), while on Rotten Tomatoes it holds a rating of 44% (based on 16 critics).
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Two sisters and a brother living in the centre of Istanbul are confronted with the care for their dementing mother who they brought back with them from the mountains near the Black Sea where she lived. As the siblings start reminiscing about their mother, the tensions between them quickly become apparent; like a Pandora’s Box which is spilled open, all the unresolved disputes are scattered around. The confrontation with their mother’s sordidness brings them to realize how poor their own lives are. It is only the oldest daughter's rebellious son Murat who empathizes with the old woman and an unusual alliance is born between the two.
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Possibly related was the word cunny [kʌni], with the same meaning, at Wiltshire. The word "cunty" is also known, although used rarely: a line from Hanif Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundrette is the definition of England by a Pakistani immigrant as "eating hot buttered toast with cunty fingers", suggestive of hypocrisy and a hidden sordidness or immorality behind the country's quaint façade. This term is attributed to British novelist Henry Green. In the United States, "cunty" is sometimes used in cross-dressing drag ball culture for a drag queen that "projects feminine beauty"Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre, Psychology Press, 2000, p.
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In his review for The Washington Post, Hal Hinson praised Nick Nolte's performance: "This actor doesn't flinch in the least from his character's unsavoriness; instead he seems to glory in his crumpled suits and unwashed hair, as if they were a kind of spiritual corollary. Nolte gives Brennan a kind of monumental brutishness -- he makes him seem utterly indomitable". USA Today gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "Overkill ultimately wears Q & A down, despite two bravura performances and some Hutton understatement that's adequate to the task. So, too, does unrelenting sordidness, a deadly love angle and a score (Ruben Blades) almost as awful as Cy Coleman's sabotage of Lumet's Family Business".
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Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or Turf and Towers (1873) is a poem in blank verse by Robert Browning. It tells a story of sexual intrigue, religious obsession and violent death in contemporary Paris and Normandy, closely based on the true story of the death, supposedly by suicide, of the jewellery heir Antoine Mellerio. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country has never been one of Browning's more popular poems, originally because of the perceived sordidness of the story, and later on grounds thus summarised by the critic C. H. Herford: > The poet followed on the heels of the journalist, and borrowed, it must be > owned, not a little of his methods. If any poem of Browning's may be > compared to versified special correspondence, it is this.
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The Book of Genesis (2009) is a comic book illustrated by American cartoonist Robert Crumb that purports to be a faithful, literal illustration of the Book of Genesis. It reached #1 the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list and on the Christian books list at Amazon.com. Given Crumb's past body of work, and his professed rejection of religion, many assumed when the book was announced that it would be a satire or otherwise profane or subversive send- up, and were surprised or disappointed to find it "straight-faced". Crumb "resist[ed] the temptation to go all-out Crumb on us and exaggerate the sordidness, the primitivism and the outright strangeness" found in the Biblethe depictions of sex are explicit, but not gratuitous.
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