Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale he tells is of a woman who, finding that romance and the fullness of life will never come to knock at her door, ventures out in search of them. Told by a realist, the emphasis would have been laid upon the sordid details, upon the tragedy of starved lives and the futility of effort; told by Mr. Thurston all that is sordid is lost behind the glory of living and the joy that lies therein. Mary Throgmorton, the heroine, is a woman of twenty-seven or eight who has lived all her life a spinster with her spinster sisters...
...Really that's most encouraging, it almost seems as if the Boston papers were going to print news that can interest a man of culture. I'm so ennuled by these sordid stories about murders and graft, and editorials ridiculing Harvard men for drinking...
...their city a long-cherished service have left in their work, here and in other cities, many eloquent witnesses to their rectitude and genius. They have no need of sorry vindication from the spectacle of the present museum. To point the obvious moral, considerations of nepotism, social ambition and sordid jealousy prevailed over the clear reasoning of enthusiasm for the arts and devotion to the commonwealth, with the inevitable result. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20. December...
...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...