Word: sordidly
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...attributes of aristocracy in working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled by its "natural" leaders -those with fortune and position so secure "that the struggles for ambition are not defiled by the taint of sordid greed." His successor was his nephew, Arthur Balfour, a languid genius with so exquisitely balanced an intellect that once, arriving for an evening party at a house whose staircase was split into two curves, he stood for 20 minutes at the bottom trying to find a logical reason for ascending...
...dozens of cities across the nation, the war on poverty has succeeded mainly in triggering sordid squabbles and scandals. Johnson himself is largely to blame for the fact that Operation Head Start, an immensely successful summer program of preschool instruction for children, has run into trouble. With characteristic bravura, he promised that the program would be put on a year-round basis-without realizing that it will now cost $450 million, when one-third that amount is available...
...drifted through the film before, represents escape and freedom. The rock formations along the shore, like the rocks in L'Aventurra, have a shape and character which nearly animates them. Antonioni, by this purely visual statement, gives us an idyllic alternative with which to measure the industrial world, either sordid or sterile, in which we live...
...film's thesis that most such cases stem from "lack of affection." Producer-Director Jerónimo Mitchell Melendez ignores complex social and psychological factors when he suggests that most addicts turn to the needle to tranquilize Oedipal anguish. But despite his sociological hokum, he projects a sordid milieu with grim documentary accuracy...
After Arnon falls for the Madonna he is forced to join her in assorted sordid activities. His roommate is too, until he breaks the spell and...well, let it be known that the film will shoot location shots in Adams House, Holyoke Center, the IAB and other sinful spots...