Word: sordidly
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...cities, particularly Port-au-Prince with its 250,000 inhabitants, are the most sordid parts of Haiti. In the sprawling market places, you have to breathe through your mouth to avoid the smell and clench your teeth so the flies can't get in. Beggars are everywhere and swarm around you. Children follow you holding out their hands for money. A cripple throws himself in your path, clinging shakily to his crutch, and without saying a word expresses the horror of human degradation...
...major factor in many states, either by statute or practice, is fault. Knowing this, lawyers for both husband and wife commonly dig up and expose the most sordid details of the opponent's private life, to try to prove one party "guiltier" than the other. A man shown to have been having an affair is often "punished" by a judge's harsh alimony award, whether or not his ex-wife has plenty of money of her own. Conversely, an adulteress may get nothing, even though her resources...
...films, you may succumb to sneaking suspicions that some of the advertised shots never appear. This may be deliberately false advertising, but more than likely the scenes in question--certain to be the most sordid in the films--fell beneath a censor's scissors...
Perhaps the most interesting fact about this limpid novel is that the author is Ginger Rogers' current husband. "The sordid realism of this book," he warns leeringly in the foreword, "may generate a feeling of shock." Promises, promises...
...Gawd," says Joy, as she walks wearily home through a London slum to her sordid flat and the petty thief she lives with. "If anyone saw me now, they'd say, 'She's had a rough night, poor cow.' " She has had more than that. But no need to worry; the important thing about this poor cow-and this film-is that the rough nights and days cannot get either of them down. Despite its scruffy scene and downhill theme, Poor Cow is not really another of England's angry proletarian tragedies. The film tells...