Word: sordid
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...little dog Toto takes the curtain in his teeth, tugs it aside and gives the world a glimpse of the Wizard of Oz. The wizard in this case turns out to be a pretty seedy character. To claim supernatural powers and then be caught in sordid acts--sexually abusing children or, even worse, shielding the abusers--is not only a moral problem. It is a near fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility...
...little dog Toto takes the curtain in his teeth, tugs it aside and gives the world a glimpse of the Wizard of Oz. The wizard in this case turns out to be a pretty seedy character. To claim supernatural powers and then be caught in sordid acts--sexually abusing children or, even worse, shielding the abusers--is not only a moral problem. It is a near fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility...
...indicted Nazi war criminals who ended up living more or less openly in Argentina until Perón was overthrown in 1955 includes Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Eduard Roschmann, Klaus Barbie, Ante Pavelic, Gerhard Bohne and Erich Priebke. This may be a matter-of-fact account of a sordid incident. But by keeping emotion at arm's length Goñi heightens the impact...
When you think about it, the way that we talk about love is one of the defining features of our personalities. Some of us look everywhere for advice, telling the most sordid details of our private affairs to anyone who will listen, including perfect strangers. These are the people who when standing in front of you in the dining hall will raise their voices just enough to make sure that you, their anonymous audience, hear every juicy tidbit about their latest crush. Some of us are so-called “good listeners,”—people...
...numbers are wrenching, but to comprehend the problem, one need only watch the sordid hour-by-hour lives of girls like Lek and Tip. As we talked with them over a few days, our sense of being impartial observers gave way to a feeling of being uncomfortable voyeurs and then grew to a gnawing sense that just by watching the children's degradation we were somehow implicated. I'm not sure at what point we decided that, although we couldn't guarantee their futures, we could buy their freedom. We could help them escape...