Word: sordidly
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...case as long as his teen-age accusers stuck to their story, advised him to plead guilty and get off with a light fine or probation. Said Williams stubbornly: "I just can't go in and plead guilty to something I didn't do." Williams' sordid little police-court case made the front page of Washington papers. He was found guilty...
Next door, in Old Bailey, life was just as sordid. In their dining room upstairs, the judges "indulged in feasts of gargantuan size" at state expense, then came staggering drunkenly down to pass sentence. Householders with windows looking out on the gallows had a lucrative business on hanging days. "As much as ?10 a seat was demanded," says Author O'Donnell, "and the surrounding viewpoints in the street were thronged with deliriously excited men & women who gathered in position on the eve of the execution, whiling away the long night hours with song and dance and drunken debauch...
Night and the City (20th Century-Fox) is a gaudy melodrama showing the misadventures of a double-dealing nightclub tout (Richard Widmark) in London's lower depths. Based on a Gerald Kersh novel and filmed on location, it gets some lurid effects out of a sordid story, murky backgrounds and a gallery of grotesque characters. Unfortunately, the excitement runs down well before the picture does...
Against the sordid backgrounds of an anonymous big U.S. city, the film deftly introduces its main characters one by one, starts to develop them with quick strokes while linking them together into the burglary plot. It gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into a jewelry store at night, and his businesslike recruitment of personnel for the job. With very little dialogue, it pictures the jewel theft in a long, intimately detailed sequence of torturing suspense. Then a doublecross explodes the mastermind's plan...
...reflection, Father Cawder senses his defeat: he has denied the lowly. Though the carnival has left town, he starts in laborious search of Diamond and Stella, determined to persuade them that Christian charity is for them too. Before he is through, the priest has waded through a world of sordid crime and violent death. But Father Cawder has learned the force of the words he had once mechanically spoken to Diamond: "It's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge. A priest has no means of doing so even...