Word: sordid
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...whole affair represents something sordid about our obsession with on-screen perfection. We have moved from adult admiration of Marilyn Monroe’s alabaster complexion to perfectly crafted and precociously sexualized children. I don’t like to think where Hollywood will take us next...
...Christmas Day, but he is still center stage in a family dispute over where he should be buried. As of mid- January, James Brown's body remained in his air-conditioned South Carolina home. But Brown is in good company; his is just the latest chapter in the sordid history of celebrity burial tugs...
...currying favor with Nazis and collaborators alike, he became Commissioner for Jewish Affairs for the Vichy government in May 1942, presiding over a nest of corruption and the deportation of 75,000 Jews to German death camps. He died in 1980, unpunished and unrepentant. Callil lays out Darquier's sordid tale with cool disdain and relentless research. She first encountered his name after the apparent suicide in 1970 of her young psychiatrist - his daughter, it turned out, who had been abandoned decades before. In Callil's gifted hands, Louis Darquier's story becomes a history of modern French anti-Semitism...
Whether overt or not, however, these lies are often more believable if stated with high-flown rhetoric. And you must be aware that relative literary excellence in a greeting card often goes hand in hand with a particularly sordid family dynamic. Every so often some of you will come across a card written entirely in rhymed couplets, or structured around an elaborate acrostic phrase like "SEASONS GREETINGS." If you see an acrostic like this, know that it likely should have been something closer to "WE’VE FILED FOR DIVORCE...
...mayor of my hometown, Albuquerque, has proposed to follow in New York State’s footsteps and legalize the forced medication of the “mentally ill.” Given the sordid history of government involvement with “mental illness,” Mayor Martin J. Chávez is leading Albuquerque—and the rest of the country in his wake—down a very slippery slope...