Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre they are monsters of depravity, to be baited and scorned. Sinclair Lewis in his savage history made Elmer Gantry a lewd and naughty figure. But in the play he is so wicked as to be incredible, an exaggerated bugaboo of vast proportion, snooping in his sordid tents with concupiscent treachery...
...sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual pageantry runs pleasantly throughout the book-a relief from recent War stories, whether patriotic or sordid. Author Jacks might have been to the Crusades...
...immigrant manner. But at length I said-"Oh well, God is merciful even to this benighted land. The mantle of our Andreyev has fallen upon Eugene O'Neill; while he lives and writes, U. S. A. may boast of a literature far beyond would-be psychological excursions into sordid Main Streets. I am expecting a new weekly magazine of news; possibly it may be less for 'les cretins' than the majority of the news press...
...Furies. Murder, for playwrights' profit, is usually a sordid affair, committed in the first act and for no better reason than to provide a culprit for the conjuring author to produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid...
...Ambassador, and with them he intends to show the true possibilities of that most modern type of journalism. The use of pictures to give the news of the day has no essential disadvantage, and under a management that would eliminate the stress now laid by them on sordid and sensational items they can be of real value to the thinking public, according to Mr. Moore...