Word: sordid
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...individual can be sordid and sensual in the cultivation of his reading habits. The average person of the common workaday life too frequently turns to the kind of reading which affords only recreation and an opportunity to pass an idle moment which in itself is very well enough if all of the reading which one does is not of that kind. Good reading does not necessarily confine itself to the heavy uninteresting type of essay or literature which only the few care to peruse, but it does involve more than the ordinary subject matter such as is found in average...
Often have we, surveying the unlovely aspect of the Square, thought how sordid, mean, material it was; how often have we longed for any change anything that would make the dull glitter of Massachusetts avenue a little less stupid, anything to brighten the gloom of this dismal village...
...nation, we are often criticized by Europeans, for a sordid sameness of life and institutions. Our cities, they point out, present the same square uninteresting outlines; the talk, in our homes, runs along the same tract of mediocre intellectuality; our youths and men are all alike even down to their gestures and vocabulary. Where, they ask, are our great scientists and statesmen...
...Peace Union says our national honor is not the issue. Of course, we have long since repudiated being our brothers' keeper, though we once signed something or other about Belgian neutrality; and of course protection of our own citizens and our own property is sordid materialism, not a matter of honor...
...complains bitterly of the sordidness of Wilson's diplomacy; never has a campaign been waged on a more frankly sordid basis than Hughes own! There has been only one real aim: 100 per cent. American rights, 100 per cent, business profits! There has been only one constructive suggestion: 100 per cent. Republican protective tariff, a measure avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes...