Word: sordidly
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...contributed his piece of the puzzle, all Italy read column after, column of newsprint on the trial, searching suspiciously for signs of favoritism or a fix. And, under the eyes of all Italy, the Montesi affair slowly but unmistakably changed from "Italy's Dreyfus case" to a sordid little family scandal...
...life and death of Dr. William Palmer is a sordid, shabby story of a man of natural ability who was never more than a step ahead of his creditors or his latest female conquest, but Graves has achieved the maximum of variety and color by making up accounts of people who knew Palmer and who tell their stories to the invisible narrator. Further, he has written in a remarkable imitation of Victorian style: "If the girl anticipated marriage by granting him what he asked, Palmer at once cooled towards her, as too giddy to be his wife...
...result: the sordid story of Beck's business interests and his own queasy evasions (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) unfolded in living rooms in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, St. Louis, Fresno, Phoenix and Portland as well as Washington and Seattle. Late in the week the impromptu network added three more stations, Baltimore's WAAM, WBAL and WMAR, the second time in the week that these three gave their networks a pointed lesson in public service. One classic network argument against special live news coverage is the heavy cost in sponsored shows that must be canceled. The three Baltimore stations produced...
...moon, or eating, or being born. Their death is a positive force, a feature of the primitive existence of blood and earth they are part of. Death in modern society is by fear put out of mind, that is why the inescapable fact of it is so sordid. It is the difference between regenerate and unregenerate. The poet is alarmed at this turning away from death while being surrounded by it, and in the long poem Dance of Death Lorca finds the one group in all the New York millions which has not turned away--the Negroes...
Adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, the film seems to use these more than sordid elements, not because it has a point of view, even a negativistic one, but because sex and brutality are shortcuts to suspense and audience attention. The proof of this lack of unity and pointfulness is that the aforementioned seduction scene is the climax of the film, after which it anti-climatically and ridiculously gurgles along and finally stops...