Word: sordidly
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Such questions were interesting but academic. If the San Francisco conference descended to such sordid legalistic maneuvering, world security would be a dead duck...
...Detroit's citizens stepped up to the microphone one night last week and told how he had "hit bottom" as an alcoholic. To underline his confession, some of the more melodramatic and sordid aspects of his past were dramatized. Then he told of his regeneration. Summed up the announcer: "Alcoholism is a disease . . . an obsession . . . an allergy...
Last week there came a shocked cry from the undertakers. The idea that morticians fight for cadavers, said some dignified practitioners, was "too sordid and unwarranted for reply." Indignantly, they explained that 75% of all funerals cost less than $500, and that few caskets (undertakerese for "coffins") ever cost more than $10,000 (even these are so rare and beautiful that undertakers reverently call them "couches...
Richard Llewellyn's novel told the sordid story of frustration and poverty in the slums of London, and hit the reader with the message that something must be done. In adapting the novel for Hollywood, Clifford Odets has purposefully subdued the sociology, and it is doubtful whether anyone, including Mr. Odets, actually knows what "None but the Lonely Heart" now means...
...escapists home. Its faded red & green cars got to Manhattan five hours late, released some 500 battered passengers, and went back empty to haul another load away. Next day the second of the two extra coach trains allowed by ODT for the Great Evacuation arrived three hours late. The sordid shuttling will go on; by midsummer, said ODT, all the suntanned refugees may get home...