Word: sordidly
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...ground most of the time, except when they look up to "drill" one another or to look fleetingly in one another's eyes and swear undying devotion in a casual voice. Typical lines: ''Aren't you getting a little hysterical?" "I know this whole sordid nightmare." "I won't stand this treachery." "Now you're getting sentimental." "He said, 'Don't be silly,' so I shot him." All the characters light cigarets at critical moments...
Summarized Congressman La Guardia : ''Sordid as these facts may seem, I believe that the same sort of story could be told regarding every stock in which there was a pool." As to Bears, they did the same things, "only with the reverse English...
...havoc with the Irish troopers, in the drawing rooms of effete Simla, and through the sweating jungles promising the lonely civilian a suicidal death, over all India even to the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, the genius of young Kipling searched and brought to light the romance of the sordid. But now, they whisper, that genius has been dead for thirty years, and its newest effort, "Limits and Renewals", is only a sickly, grave-scented breath of the old Kipling...
Everything was progressing with the happy and aimless inevitability natural to such situations. A few vegetables, a few soft heads, it was the usual time had by all in the usual manner. But tragedy stalked from Billings to Stover. The law injected a sordid note when the first cop pulled the first tear bomb. What had been valor and pleasantry became stark and earnest and the Freshmen wished they had never left home...
...There have been foolish threats and disturbances when it was announced that we were going to give O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," and Synge's "Playboy of the Western World." Just because they depict life realistically and do not hesitate to show the sordid, several self-constituted censors have proposed that we should omit the performances from our repertoire. On the grounds of morality they object to "Juno" because it pictures living conditions among the poor, and in it no Irish girl has an illegitimate child, and of course, no Irish girl would have an illegitimate child. Objections...