Word: sordidly
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...legal colleagues feelingly phrased the thought: "As he stood at the bar of the court, pleading for some victim of fortune's scourge, he seemed to acknowledge at least part of the guilt in being a member of a society which permitted children to grow up in sordid slums, amid ugliness, vice and crime . . . He was more than a public defender. His attitude was almost that of co-defendant...
...fuzzy minded conservative, Dos Passos wrote the original novels while a fuzzy-minded liberal, and the play sometimes verges on the sentimental glorification of the sordid and false that fuzzy-mindedness may produce. However, a coolly ironical detachment saves most of the script from mushiness, and provides a background for emotion-packed events that enables us to accept their content as sentiment, rather than sentimentality...
...Democratic politicians were also bidding for the job, and one hungry candidate reportedly had offered to give all Cabinet seats save one to rival factions in return for their support. Said one Tokyo observer sadly: "With the Liberal Democrats, policy does not come first but last-only after the sordid scramble for Cabinet posts...
...heroine tries suicide for love of a married man. It has moments of sharp, watercooler burlesque as it glances at an office Christmas party. But beyond that, unfolding the story of a nice little guy whose bosse's use his apartment as launching pad for some fairly sordid affairs, the picture takes on a hard, unwinking look of irony. Again and again, Wilder seems to speak in the accents of one of his favorite cities, prewar Berlin, a tough, sardonic, sometimes wryly sentimental place whose intellectual symbol was Bertolt Brecht. Is Billy trying to say something serious about...
...Lawrence or Vladimir Nabokov or, for that matter, Grace Metalious." In fact, it is the youngsters' very "inability to do sustained reading, frustrating the youth at school and cutting off a major avenue of escape from the limits of what is usually a mean and sordid environment, that tends to breed rebellious delinquency." Concludes Lacy: "Life itself is often shocking, beset with temptation, surrounded with sordidness . . . Frightened ignorance is no good preparation" to meet these. But a youngster who has been prepared for these shocks with honesty will have "little to fear from his encounter with the pages...