Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accept abject amorality in our nation's most honored position? People should be outraged! Starr's report confirms our suspicions that the President has disgraced himself, his office and the ethical traditions that have nurtured this Republic since its inception. President Clinton should resign immediately and bring this sordid episode to an end. J. WALLACE DAVIES Anderson...
...melt Denver's cold demeanor through his natural charm and exuberance. But their fragile existence becomes threatened by the emergence of a strange girl known simply as Beloved (Thandie Newton), who may or may not be the incarnation of the daughter Sethe was forced to murder in her sordid past. As Beloved's presence becomes more and more devastating, Paul D finds himself tested by a number of painful secrets and Sethe plunges into a downward spiral of madness and depression...
...real, non-Disney world, which will most likely seem both strange and scary. Celebration is a more extreme example of what Disney has done to Times Square in New York: it uses its own cultural power and prestige to turn public spaces into cartoonish playgrounds. Disney may have changed sordid Times Square for the better, but Celebration is taking...
...that no impeachable offenses have been uncovered in those matters. As Clinton's defenders like to say, Starr spent four years and $40 million trying to prove substantive presidential wrongdoing, came up dry, and then used Linda Tripp's tapes to set a trap to catch the President in sordid personal behavior. Clinton's obstruction of justice--shameful though it may have been--amounted to trying to wriggle out of that trap...
Forcing the president out of office now seems like an appealing way of bringing to a close an incredibly sordid and painful chapter of American history. But by doing so, the American people would achieve just the opposite. Rather than ending the debacle, Clinton's removal would ensure that we are left with a legacy of uncertainty about the appropriate level of scrutiny of public officials...