Word: sordidly
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What kind of a man can have so little respect for himself or human kind that he will treat [a woman] with such incredibly sordid shabbiness . . . and ignore the offspring of his own body...
...Africa, and, after reading your story . . . I am ashamed of my American passport . . . I was earnestly questioned by Africans and Europeans about race problems in America . . . I unwittingly painted the picture much brighter than it evidently is. Possibly I have been away from America too long to remember the sordid details of what still goes on there...
...Kenneth Robertson of Boston, Mass.," he announced in a clear, North Shore accent. "I'm somewhat disturbed at the naivete of the speakers tonight, except for Father Sexton, they don't seem to understand the nature of this sordid subject. Why don't they all come to Town Hall at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, where they can hear it discussed by Dr. Bella Dodd, Alfred Kohlberg, Victor Laskey, and J. B. Matthews...
...literary age often characterized by intentional obscurity and rampant symbolism, it is interesting to find a first-class novel which affects neither. The Night of the Hunter, Davis Grubb's first attempt at novel writing is mainly a narrative--grim, sometimes sordid, but at the same time warm and deceptively optimistic. And the author surprises readers hardened to literary cynicism with the rarity of a happy ending...
Aglow with "the phosphorescence of sexuality." Cathy keeps streaking over the horizon of this novel like a flying saucer pursued by satyrs. And yet no one could call The End of an Old Song a sexy or sordid story. Author John (The Way to Glory) Scott, who is literary editor of London's dignified Spectator, is simply not the kind of novelist who grapples with nymphomania like a Melville with a whale. Though interested in elemental things, he is more interested in the sound of his clear prose tinkling over them. Moreover, this time, his main theme...