Word: sordidly
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...which he is now playing the leading role at the Selwyn Theatre. The author-actor adds that he has made no effort to create or eliminate sensationalism. Mr. Gordon hits the mark. The play is vivid, it is primitive, and both those who hope for and those who fear sordid sensationalism are disappointed...
...regeneration of mankind, a true use of the precepts of Christianity. The prospect of peace is made all the more gloomy because in the present very materialistic civilization the practice of brotherly love scarcely extends beyond the home circle, let along transcends national boundaries. To pound home the very sordid conclusion that another war will forever wreck American prosperity and the European hope of future wealth is perhaps the only way in which the great mass of people can be persuaded to change its militaristic tactics. It is only ideally that religion is a foe of Mars...
Great writers have sometimes sought to paint the underworld. Not the most daring among them put upon canvas scenes more revolting or more despicable in the cold-blooded and sordid vices they display than several which the evidence in this case has depicted. The cynicism of most of the characters in the drama provokes laughter, but it is laughter of amazement and of scorn. There is something ludicrous in this naked parade of greed and of obscenity; and the predominant impression it leaves in minds not squeamish over common frailties is that of unmitigated repugnance and disgust...
...first is that Stevenson often wrote under the influence of drugs, the second that he was consistently an egotistic poseur. All his life he tried to be as different from other people as possible, not hesitating to pose even before his few intimates. In the face of the rather sordid "underworld" life which Stevenson led in his early years in Edinburgh and London. Mr. Steuart does not, like the more obsequious biographers, turn aside and shudder. He tells the plain facts, and leaves the reader to draw his own conclusions...
...play will not interest the jaded theatregoer who is out for blood. Neither will it amuse the earnest seeker after incontinence, sordid or suave. It has, however, a quality of ease and atmospheric entertainment that commends it amiably to attention...