Word: sordidly
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What made some people unhappy about his new show was that much of it bristled with sordid details (e.g., a couple embracing in a child's bed, under a stuffed deer's head), and that the stories Koerner told were unrelievedly grim. In one painting (The Tie) an ugly, starkly naked young couple stood back to back in a puddle, holding hands as if against their will, staring dazedly into the encroaching darkness. Draped around the husband's weary neck hung a tie decorated with a pin-up girl. "Don't think I am making...
Shaw's novel has three interweaving plots. Christian Diestl is an Austrian would-be superman who tolerates his Nazi party comrades since they are useful for world conquest; Michael Whitacre is a Broadway character worried about the sordid emptiness of his life; Noah Ackerman is a young Jewish boy confused by modern life but determined to burst through to personal fulfillment...
...Angeles Times ran a cartoon last month showing a hand clutching a pistol and a copy of a comic book called Sordid Crimes. The caption asked: "Do your children handle loaded guns?" The Times* was belatedly getting into the fight against the sex-and-violence comic books which are the bastard offspring of newspaper comics...
Scrawny Turkey. Once he gained fame, Author Caldwell abandoned his narrow, though unusual gift. Prompted perhaps by the party-line critics and earnest sociologists who misread his sordid stories as profound exposures of Southern society,* Caldwell undertook to write "seriously." The result was lamentable: each of his recent novels is more inept than its predecessor, and the latest one is as scrawny a literary turkey as has been hatched...
...rest of the world; and readers of Graham Greene's previous novels will not have to read far in this one before they know that they have met Scobie and his world before. For this world, disguised though it is under African heat, is the same cruel, sordid, vulturous hell that Greene has conjured up in most of 14 books, and Hero Scobie is Greene's equally familiar creation-a sinner disguised as a hero-villain...