| 单词 | rotten |
| 例句 | But today Tony was in a rotten mood. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z We trekked along the mountainside, looking for pieces that weren’t waterlogged or rotten, shaking the snow off branches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "I'm sorry I gave you such a rotten tea." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The stench of rotten produce is so strong it doesn’t help my Hershified stomach. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I didn’t have any belongings, just a rotten potato in my pocket that I gnawed on when no one was looking. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Colton was in a rotten mood, hardly talking, clearly homesick and hating Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What kind of rotten joke is this, Bernie?” he asked angrily. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Fallen boulders and rotten trunks and the roots of gnarled trees left only a tight way to steer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t even enjoy the moment of being a licensed driver—almost as if it was unfair for something good to happen to a rotten person like me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis—he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z For the last two weeks lunch has been either spinach or cooked lettuce with huge potatoes that have a rotten, sweetish taste. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Alsvindr was huge for a horse—much taller than either of the Ivanov family’s horses—and since he had belonged to such a rotten man, everyone expected him to be rotten too. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z You know how rotten Daddy is at basketball. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He could taste it on his tongue—dank, rotten, moldy—all the way to his stomach, as if he’d swallowed something that had begun to decompose. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The air was filled with the terrible gases and smells from the rotten egg. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Being stranded in the land of death is a little rotten for him, but there’s nothing we can do. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The air became intolerably hot, permeated with a smell like rotten eggs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Besides the garden, there was a pond to clean and a big tree with rotten limbs to come off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved along the gallery, guiding himself by the wall, moving carefully since he did not know just where the floor planks might be rotten or even missing, until he came to a window. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, but nice rotten apples. Taste it back along your tongue toward the roots.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A face pressed close to hers, long black hair and tangled beard and rotten teeth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I pinched my nose closed, which was the way Mom had taught us to get down things that had gone a little bit rotten. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s a pile of rotten boards down by the creek. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I had two cavities that were rotten to the gums. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It's really more of a metaphor’ And Mark is writing, 'Definitely pick up actual literal snakes and drink actual real poison like rotten grape juice or other Bible-y poison’” “Who knows exactly what he meant?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z And he did see—that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn’t trust anybody, not even yourself. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Shriveled petals leave a rotten scent throughout the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Put a hundred rotten eggs in your mind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Empty paint buckets, paint brushes, stepladders, stools, saucepans, frying-pans, rotten eggs, dead rats, bottles of hair-oil—anything those brutes could lay their hands on came raining down upon the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Stupid to be scared of a rotten bird. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Rietveld, his family name, was abandoned, cut away like a rotten limb. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z ‘I hope they all go rotten,’ my mother said. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d had rotten luck this afternoon, hadn’t sold a single box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To see their rotten reflections in the mirror? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A chorus of moans tortured my ears while a gust of hot, rotten air clawed up my nostrils. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And I felt pretty rotten for thinking that she might have wanted to kill me too. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Don’t know who it was that captured me, ’cause they didn’t keep me very long, but they did things...mean, rotten things...and to this day I still can’t figure out why. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was partly rotten; on the end of it was a small square buckle, covered with rust. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't that he was rotten, but just that he smelled like his body had mistaken its organs for garbage and that he was essentially a walking, talking trash can. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Termites could be heard rummaging under the rotten leaves. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Passing through the village, the stench of rotten flesh and human waste hangs heavily in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Joon’s front teeth are almost completely rotten, but he flashes them for the camera as though they are made of gold. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z So here it is, naked and old and rotten. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “The slowest pigs in Trofimovsk!” said Ivanov through his rotten teeth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z A tiny striped chipmunk darted out of a rotten log beside the creek and Wishbone bolted after it, yanking the leash right out of my hand. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z And I hoped that all the people who had drawn rotten lives would be given a change of luck. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I scraped at it with my hands; old, rotten insect- ridden dust came tumbling out. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want you to smell like rotten strawberries,” he said, smiling. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It was the rotten economy that had landed him in the water and that had capsized the whole ship along with him. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z And it would be even funnier if he interrupted that night nurse and said, “Miss Windbag, you’re rotten, rotten to the core. I just thought I ought to tell you.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was stale and still, suffused with the scent of rotten peaches, horse excrement, and partially combusted Illinois anthracite. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “That makes you a rotten gambler, Jesper. But an excellent friend.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “We’ve known Milo since we moved here. He’s as rotten as they come. I’m guessing pretty much everyone in the neighborhood knows that.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The stairs empty into a narrow hallway, and the scent of something powerful rotten hits me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z "Oh, it was so horrible! It was...it was like something that was going rotten!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z ‘I know that but you got it wrong. She didn’t marry that rotten Humperdinck. She marries Westley.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z My clothes were dirty, my crapes were rotten, and my body was sticky with dirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “She has a rotten old rope. You didn’t blow on it?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z You wouldn't catch our neighbors scraping mold off their strawberries, but to our father, there was nothing so rotten that it couldn't be eaten. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Much of it was damply rotten and full of insects that scurried; logs had to be lined from the soil with care or they crumbled into sodden powder. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z No matter what that rotten rich kid Tyler Croft says, it ain’t true. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z My pockets were stuffed with chunks of rotten cabbages. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z "It's rotten here in the hotel. Do you know a place called Botin's?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The flashlight wormed its way into his guts and turned the sweet taste of muscadine into rotten fetid bile. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair is white and his teeth are rotten, hut he still has a taste for glory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Faerie exists beside and below mortal towns, in the shadows of mortal cities, and at their rotten, derelict, worm-eaten centers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As soon as I saw the rotten pilings jutting out of the water, the events of last April tumbled forward in my mind and my stomach lurched. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He had a rotten life in the mess and he was fine about it but I thought how he would be in his own country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There was so much walking between the fields, and the strips of land were so small, our harvest wasn’t worth a rotten apple. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I got feeling so lonesome and rotten, I even felt like waking Ackley up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z A distant woodpecker drummed against a rotten log. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z People used to do that, too— have twelve or fifteen kids because they figured some would die, some would turn out rotten, and a couple would be hardworking, honest farmers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z MapleG: She said that she didn't blame me for not wanting to chat with some rotten little loser. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a compound of rotten fish, excrement, and vomit, with a sweet chemical odor that was worse than the other smells put together. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped to his hands and knees, retching up the poison like a dog that had eaten rotten meat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The water smelled of rotten fish—an odor she had always associated with Crocodile Guts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I get that swastikas are dangerous when Nazis and white supremacists use them. But this is probably just some rotten kid.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “But neither is the smell. Like a rotten skunk pumpkin.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The water was warm to the touch and smelled like rotten eggs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The bag filled rapidly with icy water, and in the wet darkness that stank of rotten cabbages and leaves, Anya and Ivan struggled to find a way out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It is warm and soothing to my throat but tastes of rotten weeds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the rotten old floor collapsed, and the boys plummeted into the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They’re all the same—spoiled rotten— and so are the grandchildren. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than a month ago, Valerian was bragging about campers he and his friends had tricked into feasting with them, gorging on rotten leaves enchanted to look like delicacies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Not only was she dead, she was rotten, and the badger’s face twisted with disgust. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Well, it was a rotten way to be wounded and flying on a joke front like the Italian. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z "That RAT! That lousy rotten stinking RAT of a sister!" he shouted. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z When the big grey wolf wrenched free, he took most of the creature’s throat out in an explosion of pale rotten meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I’d like to unhook the rotten old motor and drop it in the water, but I don’t. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Neighbors complain, even the ones eight mats away, saying it’s bad enough being trapped in putrid, hot air made from fermented bodies and oily sweat, must everybody also endure something rotten? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She has to live up high in his nest, dirty and ragged, eating rotten meat. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Skardebek had found something dead and rotten to eat, so she was chirpy. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I’m worried maybe the whole of her is rotten and can’t be fixed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It smells rich and rotten, like mold and dead air. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He was tiny, and not only were his bones and teeth rotten, but his skin was disgusting. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The first one I saw fell from a branch and crawled across my bare arm before flopping off and disappearing into the rotten palm leaves. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And I struck his face, splitting open his cheek from lip to earlobe like a rotten orange. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her skin is pale yellow, her teeth rotten or missing. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not my fault you’re a Spare. Or that you invoked the impossible task. It was rotten luck, but don’t take it out on me!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Because, Cooter, their poison gets into your blood too quick. Within hours you commence swelling till your skin looks soft and rotten as a ripe peach left in the noonday sun!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Several nearby houses and shops were staved in like rotten barrels, most of them burning fitfully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And you’ll feel rotten in your rotten little heart because you helped to keep them apart. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z As usual, the Claw reeked of dino droppings and rotten lettuce. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The eighty-first Lord of Stormhold lay dying in his chamber, which was carved from the highest peak like a hole in a rotten tooth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Two days before she left, when I first heard her raise the subject of leaving, she said, “I feel so rotten in comparison.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Everything that was rotten inside him, I would drag into the light. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The Countess looked rotten the minute she left the carriage, with her too big painted mouth and her little piggy painted eyes and her powdered skin and...and...and... The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And that's where we wanted to be sneaking peaches from that man's tree, throwing the rotten ones at your uncle! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “Yes, we are here by the rotten log,” he replied. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He remembered the mushrooms on the rotten logs in Boulder City. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z An eight-pound toy poodle covered with abscesses, mouth filled with rotten teeth, one ear and his butt packed with pus. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The only way to ensure that nobody found out how rotten I was inside, was if I kept my distance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We followed him, quietly dragging our bodies on rotten leaves. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z An apple, sweet and rotten at the same time, honeyed juice running over my tongue, tasting of sunlight and pure heady, stupid joy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Like rotten meat, with a hint of papaya. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z His mouth came wide open, he stood up, his face was now in front of the second hole and, doggone-it-ail, some of the rotten folks in the crowd hollered out, “Two!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I looked into the stream to see what else I could eat, and as I did, my hand knocked a rotten log apart. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In this time, in this place, the world had gone mad with lush and green, throwing vines over old electrical poles and belching up rotten pipelines from the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The air smelled of rotten bodies and gunpowder. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z School was canceled while they aired out the building that day, but it still smelled like rotten eggs for an entire week. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The scent of rotten corpses is gone from the air at last. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It just happened that they had drawn rotten ones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You making me sit in a basket of rotten durian rinds,” said Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The handwriting is rotten, but I see what I need. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows immigrants drink from the trough, although the water smells like rotten eggs and is laced with green scum. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z "Yes, it is a rotten shame. But there's no use talking about it, is there? Come on, let's go back to the café." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The rotten thing is that all of the pleasure is gone because the others resent me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z My eyes were swimming: green, green, worm, string, rotten pod, green, green. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Black smoke poured from the dashboard and the whole bus filled with a smell like rotten eggs. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Imagine wanting a junky old rotten egg!” he muttered. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He took a short bath, just to lose the smell of rotten eggs that clung to him from the dripping tunnel, and fell into bed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I'm a rotten liar, even when people can't see my face. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching those men work gave Nate an uneasy feeling—like he’d bitten into something rotten, something he couldn’t spit out or swallow. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The fields shimmered with heat, and a sweet odor with something rotten at its core filled the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like rotten eggs and burning plastic mixed together. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The man turned his head, looked at me, twitched his mouth to reveal several rotten buckteeth, spat a huge blob of mucus into the fire, and then broke into a long, scornful laughter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be rotten by the following day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Lavalas, wash us like beans. Help us find the wicked and throw them out” She scooped the rotten beans off the surface where they floated, and pitched them out the door. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not standing so much as being held up; the cast over his broken leg was grey and rotten. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Popo had swollen up like an overripe squash, so full her flesh had gone soft and rotten with a bad smell. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If they’d cared at all for Leslie, they would have never brought her to this rotten place He had to hold tightly to his hands for fear he might sock Bill in the face. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The air smelled like rotten eggs and smoke. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Ralph finally lost his temper and squeaked at the top of his voice, “Beat it, you rotten little rodents!” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The rotten tiles broke with a noise of disaster and the man barely had time to let out a cry of terror as he cracked his skull and was killed outright on the cement floor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And let’s not forget the two days of ditching school—a rotten cherry on top. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The stink of human waste and rotten food and other smells mingle together. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu nearly choked when he came close and realized that the rotten smell came from her water: it had previously been used to soak cassava, perhaps for days, and was being reused. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Scrubbed from top to bottom with something sudsy and bright colored, like sun yellow that smelled like rotten lemon, or mutant green that smelled like if every flower in the world sneezed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “See? Why couldn’t you at least believe I am rotten?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “It was supposed to be rotten,” she wails backstage, where I have gone to congratulate her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Because . And she couldn’t really think of a reason not to. “Last one in’s a rotten egg,” he said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z "It's disgusting, like in the old days. People would walk around court looking like rotten chicken ready for frying." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It reminded him a little of prison hooch, brewed in a garbage bag from rotten fruit and bread and sugar and water, but it was smoother, sweeter, infinitely stranger. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “It means nobody will be able to live here on account of the smell. A rotten egg is a regular stink bomb.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He thought, it's stupid, it's stupid, it's only a stupid, rotten bird. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “I was wrong. It’s worse. This summer stinks like rotten eggs on a dead skunk.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to see his rotten old bones!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The wind shifted and the smell grew stronger, something dead and rotten. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “So...are things going to be rotten or good?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z All there is to store work is watchin’ out for rice weevils and rotten potatoes, and keepin’ the rats out of the seed corn.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Is it me, or do they smell like rotten eggs? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s rotten. The wood’s all eaten. Look ye, see when I pull? Warps. You see there? Gentlemen, we is taking on some ugly water.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The three boys went into the forest and fetched armfuls of rotten wood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She slinks right back to him, rubbing herself against his legs, oblivious to the years of rotten luck she’s filling our lives with. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Some sank on the bottom, and some floated on top like when you bob for apples.The sinkers are okay to eat and the floaters are the rotten ones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to admit that we’d spoiled him rotten and turned him into a world-class beggar. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “I call the gendarmes. They are coming. I smell that rotten flesh. I know you kill the child and keep it with you for evil.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It was an insult, as if calling someone lousy or rotten. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Through black smoke and swirling green fire, Davos glimpsed a swarm of small, boats bearing downriver: a confusion of ferries and wherries, barges, skiffs, rowboats, and hulks that looked too rotten to float. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His breath even smelled kind of good, pepperminty but rotten, somehow. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z This place smelled as if all the exotic foods in the world had been left out to go rotten. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I'll burst your lungs between my teeth like old rotten bladders. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you play it as well as you know how. But it's a rotten game.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Doubtless fresh rats were to be preferred to old stale rotten rats. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Beastly rotten to surprise you like this. But one isn’t able to arrange such meetings ahead of time, you know.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She saw rotten pockets where all the cells had popped and died, forming a liquefied spot that was packed with wall-to-wall bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Ah, what elegance! What aristocratic distinction! Can that really be decayed cat that I smell? With a delicate overtone of rotten camel! Ah, the gorgeous East!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of rotten meat burned my nostrils. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “A rotten egg, my brother called me, to my face. ‘Chinese people don’t do such things,’ he said.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “The air was alive with yellow wasps. We must have stepped on a wasps’ nest in a rotten branch as we walked. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Everyone got amnesty by telling on everyone else until we were all one big rotten family of cowards. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Freshly turned dirt, manure, pine, something rotten and something sweet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “I can’t help it. He’s a rat now. I’m just treating him like the dirty, rotten, slimy rat that he is.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She smelled like rotten eggs, and she was so mad that blue sparks flickered on her armor. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z For the next half hour, Ariana had me go through a shipment of strawberries and pick out all of the rotten ones. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The rotten leaves had been thrown up in showers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Too gloomy to guard his words, Ellsberg shot back, “Henry, there hasn’t been a rotten decision in this area for twenty years which wasn’t undertaken for very complicated reasons.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They were members of the town’s trash-collecting corps, and as they huffed and bent to lay the box over the hole, they smelled vaguely of pine and rotten fruit. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The icy cell was permeated with a rotten odor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He had made new fire, which he now kept going using partially rotten wood because the punky wood would smolder for many hours and still come back with fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “The boat dumped a rotten carcass or a spoiled haul, right? The flies piggybacked on the dead fish until they picked up Stef’s scent.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped back as it gave way, the wagon splintering as if its wood were rotten as an old stump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Uncle Al does not consider battered rotten tomatoes to be good ambassadors for the show, and I can’t say I blame him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “You rotten loathsome slime! If you come near my family, I’ll rip that evil eye of yours right out of your face!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At least the Crown Prince never made her feel stupid or rotten. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, but remember Sam Hamilton said like good rotten apples.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you hurry me, sonny, you hurry a miracle man, you get rotten miracles, that what you want?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Lancelot broke off a bough of rotten wood, and jumped down on the other side of his horse, so that the horse was between them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "We're all drifting and things are going rotten. At home there was always a grownup. Please, sir; please, miss; and then you got an answer. How I wish!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It's like I pulled a rotten fish out of the refrigerator and placed it on the table. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Tree-ear was so called after the mushroom that grew in wrinkled half-circles on dead or fallen tree trunks, emerging from the rotten wood without benefit of parent seed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Tastes a little like rotten apples,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He had dirt under his fingernails and smelled like rotten vegetables. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “You’ve smelled rotten eggs? That’s sulfur dioxide, released from the chemical reaction of rotting organic material. This is going to stink just like that.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The dwarfs were herded off, pig and dog and all, as the spectators hissed their disapproval and pelted them with stones and rotten fruit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “If there’s something rotten on the inside, there’s nothing anyone can do about it.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He let himself in and hid in the attic until his heart had slowed down, even though the wooden planks were so rotten he feared he would go through the floor at every step. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Nobody would’ve paid much attention if she hadn’t started shrieking: “Catch him! Catch that rotten little pervert!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I could smell the thing—a sickening combination of wet sheep wool and rotten meat and that weird sour body odor only monsters have, like a skunk that’s been living off Mexican food. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z If it squishes too much, it could be rotten. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But though I laughed, I felt trapped, as hollow as a rotten tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Beware of Qartheen bearing gifts, especially merchants of the Thirteen. There is some trap here. Perhaps these ships are rotten, or...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She says it’s rotten and full of white maggots but beggars can’t be choosers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mama sliced off the rotten parts and made soup with the good vegetable pieces, mixing them with bones she bought at the butcher shop. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, that’s rotten,” Isabella says, and she and I exchange glances. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Matt knew that swanky meant something only an evil, rotten, spoiled aristocrat would do. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Stepping into the boat light as a cat Ged set straight the warped boards and rotten pegs, working both with tools and incantations, as he had used to do with Pechvarry in Low Torning. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He used many bad words to curse his rotten luck. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I glanced at him and felt my rotten mood evaporating. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Chairs were broken on the floor, and old, dusty spiderwebs draped the walls and hung from the rotten wood and the decomposing velvet hangings. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z His rotten fish smell was awful, but I held on. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It did not smell like rotten fish to her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "You are a rotten dancer, Jake. Michael's the best dancer I know." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “They wouldn’t give me any, oh no! They’d make me eat rotten porridge and wormy fruit.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen smells like a mixture of spoiled plums, rotten eggs and brine. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z As one of few open spaces in Clarkston available to the public, the field at Indian Creek Elementary was certainly well used, but it was a rotten place for a youth soccer program. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z First day I walk in the door, there she be, red-hot and hollering with the colic, fighting that bottle like it’s a rotten turnip. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Probably because they thought it was some rotten kid pulling a prank on them. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z It was well known that the ten-year-old prince was rotten and spoiled, inside and out, and she remembered the scandal that had erupted a few months before her capture. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And what do they think and how did they get that way and will they ever change and how the devil did I get caught in this rotten majority? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly he went for fear of rotten ice, yet in haste, because the cold was at his bones and before long he would not be able to move. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I find enough food, though a little bit rotten, to get me through this day. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Something sweet and something earthy and something dead and rotten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Over her shoulder she spit out words to us like rotten pieces of apple. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But he could not find a spoon and his sardines were rotten. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what comes of hungering for something: You forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The crowd obscured what was happening, but suddenly the rotten frontage of a building gave way and collapsed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It smelled steamy and damp, like a jungle, and there was another smell, too, sweetish and rotten. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The emperor looked around the hut as if it smelled of rotten fish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Suddenly he was aware of a draft against one side of his nose, a smell of damp, rotten matter and a hollow, echoing sound at his very ear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I was sure she wasn’t going to hit me with a eucalyptus stick as punishment, I smiled inside, because that rotten, lying thief Alfonso and his wife got what they deserved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Bloody saliva welled from between his teeth, inky in the dimness of the alcove, as though he was rotten from the inside out. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z NO REFUNDS—but she carefully avoided looking at the corners of the room because she knew that clumps of moldy newspapers would be stuffed beneath pipes and grime and things long rotten. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "She's not. Look at that shoulder. Bet you half the carcass will be too rotten for even sausage." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with rotten fruit and corn silk, their fermented scent lacing the more pleasant aromas of sizzling sausages and beer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He tried to paint a bowl of gold ingots, but instead a bowl of foul-smelling, rotten dumplings formed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Mom, I know now. Something else. When I was being a rat, I thought I was having a great time. But I wasn’t. I was having a rotten time.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When you say, Last one in is a rotten egg! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The air still carried the rotten smells of vomit and death, but also the fresh odor of seaweed and moss and cedar and salt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The lord's voice wheezed out of him, like the wind being squeezed from a pair of rotten bellows. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “You mean the drink that tastes of good rotten apples?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Wishbone trotted beside me, stopping every now and then to sniff at a tree or root around in a pile of rotten leaves. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The sweet, rotten smell of the leaf-mould came up between his knees, and under the palms of his hands as he pressed them down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z My mouth filled with spit, and a rotten hole in one of my molars yelled its displeasure. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Then falling off, like rotten leaves on dust? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But that didn’t make it any less stupid or rotten a thing to do. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt rotten hating someone I really loved but I couldn’t help it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The tubes had cracked and broken during shipment, and raw, rotten blood had run around inside the box. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “By, what—” He picked up a rotten apple and threw it at me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, we were hiding, out of breath, in the rotten trunk of an immense black tree as security ghouls scutded past, yelling for backup from the Furies. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It is not the smell of rotten grass or my own body odor but a smell so putrid that my stomach coils. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We splashed through shallow puddles, startling flies from their perches atop piles of rotten food. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Fed up with all the rotten publicity, the Miccosukees announced that they intended to sue Dusty for embezzlement, and evict what was left of the Coral Queen from their “tribal grounds,” meaning the marina. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I feel just rotten about it, but I’m absolutely helpless to do anything more than I’ve already done. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The limbs are rotten and there is a hollow place in the trunk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “The main thing is to make sure the strawberry is ripe and not bruised or rotten. And when you get tired from squatting, you can pick on your knees.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z AA 23:234: “For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “It’s not rotten. It’s Époisses. From Burgundy. The best cheese in the kingdom of France.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A smell similar to that of rotten chicken innards left out in the hot sun for too many days. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Loads. Whole Irish Sea was rotten with German subs. Wager you’d have half a navy on your hands if you could unsink all the ships they torpedoed.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “MALEVOLENCE! Evil! Bound by rotten malevolence, and carriers of disease via their....Oh no.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The boys were not allowed to wash or peel these items or even to cut off rotten parts. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z And when the baldheaded proprietor would pass by, we black children, poor, half-starved, ignorant, victims of racial prejudice, would sing with a proud lilt: A rotten egg Never fries A cheating dog Never thrives. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m trying to negotiate a 20 percent price reduction with the fitting room lady when—rotten luck!—Howard shows up and announces that there are no reductions and no employee discounts on clearanced items. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was still in dresses he put me to sorting nails at the store and getting out rotten apples and potatoes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It kept crackling and sparking at odd moments, and every time Ron tried to transfigure his beetle it engulfed him in thick gray smoke that smelled of rotten eggs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then she made me take the rotten meat up to the dump. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The rotten leaves had been thrown up in showers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We have eaten everything that is edible, from rotten leaves on the ground to the roots we dig up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At a quarter to six I swept the floor, dumped the dirt into a newspaper, along with the rotten beans, and tossed it into the stove. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “We wouldn’t be out here if it wasn’t for you. The three of you. For all your money, you’re idiots. I’m trying to make the best of a rotten situation.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Why do you look like you ate a rotten lemon, then? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Sure, I’d seen the Preacher do some bad things, but I didn’t think no one could ever do nothing that low-down and rotten. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Now that I knew her to have been evil and vicious and rotten I did not hate her any more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The rotten orange burst apart all over Tom’s face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “And do you agree that I am leading your fellow villagers to partake of the meat of a rotten corpse?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not quite rotten. Just gone off, so you wouldn’t yet notice, but eat it and get sick.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Crouch took a step backward, freeing himself from contact with the elf, whom he was surveying as though she were something filthy and rotten that was contaminating his over-shined shoes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I learned which inns and restaurants threw away the best food, and how rotten food needed to be before it made you sick to eat it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Gaping holes in his cheeks exposed the sinews of his jaw, and his nose was a pair of rotten holes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He said, “That’s it, no more talk, you opened your mouth one time too many. You rotten kids today don’t listen to no one, but I’ma show you something that’ll improve your hearing.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She slammed the trunk of the birch with a big rotten stick. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Once again, he was assaulted by the glorious smell of rotten produce. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z They were both superb creatures with pulpy, bright, pointed tongues and mouths like round warm plums, a little sweet and sticky, a little rotten. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z His head swayed from side to side as he went on all fours across the clear space in the moonlight, until he came to a rotten log. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He was farther ahead of me than usual, but that was because of my rotten start. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z There was a grunting snuffling sound in the bush behind the cub: his mother was investigating a rotten tree stump. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “What rotten luck. Would you like us to take the cars?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Birds and squirrels mainly, but also rotten cats and dogs—pets that had wandered into the park looking for shelter when there was none left anywhere in Manhattan. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He snorted and dug his powerful claws into the rotten tree trunk, sending beetles and woodlice scurrying as he tore out a chunk of the spongy timber. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She had been trapped inside a bag that smelled like earth and rotten cabbage. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Now,” the officer said, smiling down at them and showing his rotten teeth, “now, Jews, you are ready for resettlement.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The meat is rotten and the vegetables moldy, but they haven't fed us since we got thrown in here. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Colin leaned back against the rotten tree, his back arching over it until he was staring at the cloudy sky. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z One of his field trips was literally a trip to a field where the class watched a wrinkled man fill his mouth with rotten goat meat and feed it to a pack of waiting hyenas. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She said his name like it tasted rotten. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The whole system of capitalistic democracy is—rotten and corrupt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The cousins in Houston spoiled them rotten for one week. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Pet whipped its head around and snarled, an ugly sound, rotten with contempt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Our weekly lunch menu consists of brown beans, split-pea soup, potatoes with dumplings, potato kugel and, by the grace of God, turnip greens or rotten carrots, and then it’s back to brown beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A good boil, they say here, a good boil purifies the rotten meat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We tried a few more, but they exploded, too, and we walked home without having eaten anything, our shirts and faces stained with rotten tomatoes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Cramped and airless, with some foul liquid that smelled like rotten eggs dripping from the ceiling. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The bear was on him again, dragging him down, its breath rotten. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But Ivy was feeling rotten, and so she said nothing about anything. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I’m a bad mouse, he thought, filled with gloom and guilt. l am a rotten rodent, not my relatives. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z By the third day of sailing, the weather turned rotten. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His belly rumbled loudly as he chewed on a length of rotten sausage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was a relief to come out onto the High Street where the noise made our rotten mood less obvious. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Even so,’ she said, defending her own race, ‘I think it’s rotten that those foul giants should go off every night to eat humans. Humans have never done them any harm.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the two-carat diamond ring that Brian and I had found under the rotten lumber back in Welch; she wore it even when sleeping on the street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s people like you, Ron,” Hermione began hotly, “who prop up rotten and unjust systems, just because they’re too lazy to —” Another loud bang echoed from the edge of the wood. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The clothes he wore were rotten and faded, spotted with moss and eaten through with worms, but once they had been black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Cabbages, rotten apples, and a dead cat were thrown in the direction of the traitor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of look I knew could extract the truth the way a dentist tears free a rotten molar. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He opened his enormous mouth, and I knew that his rotten molars were the last things I would ever see. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Zero's face looked like a jack-o'-lantern that had been left out too many days past Halloween—half rotten, with sunken eyes and a drooping smile. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He had arranged this special practice, giving his freshmen a chance to scrimmage against a few members of the varsity, to show off all he had taught them and they were doing lousy, rotten, terrible. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It might look like he isn’t, standing mostly on this one leg on a curved branch that looks pretty rotten. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I moved to sit on the edge of the water trough, but the thick planking crumbled under my weight like a rotten stump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was a rotten smell in the air. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She inhaled the perfume of the drenched earth, the rotten leaves, and the humus, which awakened an unknown pleasure in all her senses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so many things—acrid, rotten, and even, from the branches and trees lying in the sun, sweet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Seamus is mopping the floor and there are tears on his cheeks and he’s saying, ’Tis a dirty rotten thing to die in a lavatory when you’re lovely in yourself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But that owl stank of rotten meat so I do have to say, Good riddance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, looking around for something to throw at him, a rotten apple for his rotten head. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It reeked of rotten turnips, and he could see flecks of dirt in it. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I had to throw away was the rotten ham, which smelled enough like the awful smell at the farm to make me start retching again. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a rotten night, of course, and was up before five and back on the trail at first light. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Lord Ghael had a mouth of brown and rotten teeth and the pointed yellow face of a weasel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I don’t think Mrs. Sarota realizes that she’s making me feel like I’m a rotten person for making her feel so bad. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Miserable rotten crud by the name of Tyler Croft. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He ducked just in time to avoid a rotten green tomato to the head as the Rudes drove by in their old pickup, their cackles wafting behind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t approve of throwing a rotten orange in Tom’s face, even if he deserved it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Add to that rotten potatoes, and you have a meal fit for a king! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “There were shortages of food everywhere, and the guards’ food was not much better than ours, but at least their vegetables were clean and not rotten, and their bread was not made with sawdust.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Five admirers on every street corner, twenty or so friends, the favorite of most of my teachers, spoiled rotten by Father and Mother, bags full of candy and a big allowance. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Her stomach felt sour, like she’d eaten something rotten, but at least she was keeping her tears at bay. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Nothing prospered there in Hearth or tilth, all being blighted with illness, the spring seed frozen in the ground or the ripe grain rotten, and so it had been for many years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “I say it’s rotten. Jesus Christ, 1 say it’s rotten.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “I knew it. We should have killed that rotten little mongrel.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z No keeping rotten food in the cupboards or leaving rancid dishes in the sink. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I know about that part of life, and I don’t ever want you to be like that— because it’s a dirty, rotten, low-down life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, when the rush of excitement fades, he says, people feel rotten. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Making everything she felt feel as rank and rotten as him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z If you throw a rotten orange into someone’s face, you can bet the orange will sooner or later come flying back. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a rotten son. I—I’m grounded until Christmas break, at least. I know you’re always praying for me and I...I wish it were paying off for you. I really do.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Her name is Sally Jackson and she’s the best person in the world, which just proves my theory that the best people have the rottenest luck. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The ship burst like a rotten pumpkin, and the engine exploded. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I instinctively reached behind with my left hand and scooped up a rotten strawberry. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “That was rotten, all right. I'm really sorry.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I am pleased to see that August looks much as I do, which is to say like a battered rotten tomato. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Not to mention a distraction from the incessant prom talk, the bitter icing on the rotten cake of senior year. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I’d always known she’d had it bad living with her dad, but until tonight, I really had no idea how rotten things were for her. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Come on. I’ve had a rotten night and it was supposed to be so good.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay; but some trunks came out in one piece. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “What I thought was rotten was the way you wouldn’t let me talk.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I go back down to the shed again, and this time I get the old rotten planks Dad took out of the back steps when he put in the new. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The crematorium had the same rotten, rundown air of a railway station, except that it was deserted. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "How dare you say that when your rotten hotel is full of rats anyway!" my grandmother cried. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He saw that the flask had turned milky, as if it had gone rotten. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Here between the volcanoes it is about four miles wide, and should not be hard going farther in towards the center, though it is more crevassed than I had hoped, and the surface rotten. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Even with the old water flushed out, it reeked of rotten shrimp. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Forty-five pounds of fruit and leaves and seeds and stems and bark and vines and rotten wood. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The two-room shacks, each one like the other, were rotten and unpainted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The whole rotten lot of them is despicable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Deep inside me, a rotten seed has been planted. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A horrible smell filled his nostrils, like eggs and milk gone rotten. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “This is a rotten game we play, isn’t it?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Though we were not facing real guns or real tanks, this battle would be even harder, because our enemies, the rotten ideas and customs we were so used to, were inside ourselves. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The warm air from above smelled like mildew and rotten wood and something else ... a smell I remembered from biology class. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But the rotten plank is stubborn, and I have to leave off the pry bar and dig out the screws that hold it to the ribs. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He was such a—such a rotten little pustule! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he opened his mouth, one had a ghastly vision of yellow, rotten teeth. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing I have to say about Toby: Although he’s got a rotten sense of humor, he’s a nice kid. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z He caught the first man in the back of the knee before they even knew he was there, and the heavy axehead split flesh and bone like rotten wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I was fine but she was standing above me and pulling long, rotten strips of flesh off her arms and hands as if peeling a rotten banana. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was conveniently close to the governing hub of the Common- wealth, while being a comfortable distance from the smell of rotten fish, hot tar, and the vomit of drunken sailors. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Some said the other teams were simply more rotten than we were. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “I have tired of stories of Onyeka. I noticed something when he came by yesterday. He should bathe more often, he smells like rotten oil beans.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker. They all jumped out of a rotten potato,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It made her vomit, and she threw the rotten meal away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A foul, rotten taste pervades my mouth, and the water has little effect on it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “What? You get Apex-7 for the wedding, but I get penguins? I’ve been to the aquarium. Penguins reek like rotten fish. No, thank you.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “A very rotten performance,” Chuck Day wrote that night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Tyrion ignored the muttered curses as best he could A fish cmv sailing out of die crowd, slimy and rotten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z According to them, we were evil children, spoiled rotten and selfish. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But still, we feel rotten when a pale Fifi marches into our bedroom awhile later after a grueling interrogation in Tía Carmen's bedroom. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The smell followed her around the kitchen like it was on a leash, a combination of allspice, fresh earth, and rotten leaves. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But she immediately winced, shaking me off, saying, “Oh, no, no. I despise that stuff. It tastes like rotten vodka. Just some water for now.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Old clothes were strewn across the floor, and bags of rotten food had splattered the walls. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “You can’t have stuff this good all the time. It would turn you rotten.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Sometimes, he had really bad aches, especially in his legs, and he was tired a lot of the time, and the chemotherapy drugs were making him feel pretty rotten physically. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z One moment she was stomping along, and the next moment she was flying through the air and thumping down onto a rotten log. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “What do you want?” he says, as though he’s seen me before, as though battered rotten tomatoes walk through his door every day. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Like a shot into a rotten leg, a wet thick leg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of rotten food fills my nostrils and turns my stomach. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The place was stuffy and had a very bad smell, as of rotten eggs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He made himself a beetle high in the rotten wood of the hollow tree and determined to stay there until he understood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Please don’t have my son’s teeth rotten by the end of the summer.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He said, “The man was dead and rotten. Not stinking but rotten.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Grigori’s words passed through my head: An eyesore of rotten wood, stacked haphazardly, without taste or culture. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “It will be slow. Painful. If you don’t bleed out on the floor, your insides will rot from whatever you catch in the hospital, if they’re not rotten through already.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Like meeting a lovely girl and having her smile reveal rotten teeth. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sign was rimmed with broken bulbs that looked like rotten teeth. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z My gorge rose at the reek of rotten meat permeating the air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He usually has a pipe in his mouth, though he has very few teeth left, and those that are left are rotten. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was okay if you wanted to keep somebody as the Prisoner of Zenda, but it looked like a rotten place to work. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The Ice was not so upheaved and tormented as in the Fire-Hills region, but it was rotten. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Then I must say you have rotten taste. I can smell cream tarts burning from here, Rita. You are the most impossibly scatterbrained child I have ever seen.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He had married on the rebound from the rotten time he had in college, and Frances took him on the rebound from his discovery that he had not been everything to his first wife. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I had good teeth, not a rotten one in my head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z That makes me feel pretty rotten, because it’s true. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I figured I would wind up as bad as my rotten city. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Maybe he was telling himself what a rotten excuse for a father he was for not treating me better, but I doubted it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the beginning of “rotten politics,” as my father would put it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Mom told him he was a stinking rotten drunk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Rowan pulled Theon away from the northmen praying before the tree, to a secluded spot back by the barracks wall, beside a pool of warm mud that stank of rotten eggs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mam’s cry: “You spoiled him rotten, and now he’ll never be a man”—and Gram’s retort: “You keep pecking at him and soon he won’t come home at all.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It’s rotten of me to ask her to borrow it, but she looks fantastic now, so she doesn’t need help like I do. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z If Ivy weren’t feeling so rotten, she would’ve marveled over the gauzy canopy draped over the bed and how all June’s books were organized by color. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I picked up a rotten strawberry, looked around to make sure Papá was not looking, and threw it at Roberto. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “I hear there’s a bunch of snakes in the cellar,” the first policeman said.“And the floorboards are rotten in some of the rooms.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “A man who could do that to you—he’s not worth your time. Not one moment of it. It’s not a matter of him being only half a loaf. He’s rotten through. You deserve better.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Isn't it rotten? There isn't any use my telling you I love you." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z My parents have always spoiled me rotten, treated me kindly, defended me against the van Daans and done all that parents can. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They found some rotten sticks and carried them back. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “And how will I live? I will hardly be able see over the shop counter now. Why is it all my fault that rotten wing broke off?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “If I’m a mouse, you’re a dirty old rat in a pile of rotten meat bones! Take us home at once!” screamed Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z First to emerge was a policeman whom Roy recognized as Officer Delinko; then the bald construction foreman with the rotten temper; then a snooty- looking guy with silver hair and dorky sunglasses. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Cypress trees towered to the left of the car, an ink-black creek paralleled the highway, full of rotten winter vegetation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on that rotten dock, with the sinking sun lighting up the pond, was the first time I’d ever missed a new episode and now I was going to be late for the rerun. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She’d have yellow fangs and cheeks that collapsed in like a rotten pumpkin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “MOVE!” she cried, and I leapt away as she collided with the wall beside me, kicking a hole through the rotten planks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Apparently something is rotten in the state of super couplehood. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but Lisa made a huge scene of stomping out of the gym during a slow dance.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “It was that rotten goose egg that saved Charlotte’s life,” said Wilbur. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He led them to an old, rotten stump on which a large white fungus was growing—a rounded, convoluted mass of creamy folds and wrinkles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then the smell struck him—something putrid, something so rotten that you would not even throw it into the pigpens back in his uncle’s village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The wooden bridge is more askew, rottener than I remember. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That Christmas I think he had been feeling rotten about having told me to not hang around him no more. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z They started at dawn, pulling up the old, rotten wood and digging new, deeper holes to anchor the posts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z On our way through the quiet and almost barren town, which now seemed unfamiliar, we saw rotten pots of food that had been left behind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Never have I so missed guiltily laughing so hard at a rotten review. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The film is optimistic because I see in this rotten world so many good people, so many mensches fighting hard and the courage of the whistleblower and how one changed the healthcare system in Romania. "Collective" is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z It's a rotten formula, but one which Sandler will no doubt continue using while people carry on paying money to see his movies. Grown Ups: Adam Sandler is older, less wise, yet consistently lucrative 2010-08-31T12:16:00Z Each evening at dinnertime he tells tales of his 3,000-year-old experiences, prompted by the voice inside a rotten fragment of the Argo's hull, which he holds to his ear like a telephone receiver. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z There is no peanut gallery to contend with, only her own sense of self and the fruits of her exploration, some juicy, some rotten. Why 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Should Be Required Viewing 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z “The rotten garbage that was being served, plus the way they were allowing it to be prepared. It was an atrocity.” Michigan’s failed effort to privatize prison kitchens and the future of institutional food 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Every mainstream misogynistic superstition stems from the rotten old myth of Genesis: woman as made not in God’s image, but from one of Adam’s spare parts, and thus inferior to man. The religious have gone insane: The separation of church and state — and Scalia from his mind 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z But she’s a rotten volunteer, weepy and self-conscious, and she doesn’t seem to see the pain closer to home. | 'Please Give': Catherine Keener in Nicole Holofcener?s Comic Drama 2010-04-29T22:44:00Z In that show, Angelou played the Queen, an imperious figure with lines of such linguistic lusciousness that you want to bite into them, no matter how rotten they are in the center. Talking Back to Maya Angelou 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Clonmillis Hall, with its leaking roof, empty ballroom and neglected upper rooms smelling vaguely of rotten apples, has clearly seen better days. An Irish Refuge for Two Royal British Sisters 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z And if the German press say your friends’ art sucks, that’s OK, too — reassuring, actually, as evidence that this rotten colonizers’ world has no place for us. The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z That’s how they describe the distance between standard economic measures of prosperity and how rotten everyone feels all the time. The Capital That Ate Wellness Is Going to Eat Your Mushrooms 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z If a flavor passes muster, they put a dozen healthy berries from that cross into a clear egg carton, refrigerate them, and check how rotten each has become after a week and two weeks. You could be eating fresh local strawberries at Christmas if this researcher has her way 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z But both operas are startling in their depictions of bad behavior, and their shared conclusion — understandable after decades of war and suffering — that there is something inalterably rotten at the world’s core. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Rape of Lucretia,’ Presented by Mannes Opera 2013-05-12T21:58:05Z Long before the poison-daubed sword slashes Hamlet in the final scene, the rotten state of Denmark has seeped into his bloodstream with the pernicious stealth of a deadly toxin. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Last year's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 got a measly 25% "rotten" rating on the review aggregator site rottentomatoes.com. Breaking Dawn - Part 2: best of the Twilight series? 2012-11-15T16:44:40Z If it were a fruit, it would be a very large, very overripe, quite deliciously rotten tomato. Exodus by Lars Iyer – review 2013-02-27T11:00:01Z It’s easy to get how rotten she feels, especially given that Mr. Soderbergh keeps pushing his camera into Ms. Foy’s face. Review: In ‘Unsane,’ It’s Not Paranoia if Someone’s After You 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The mutton was fatty, salty and tasted, well, rotten. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Man, oh man, is this guy rotten to the core. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Happy entrails to you 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z One by one, the characters' shells are cracked, and what's inside is rotten. 'I Melt With You': Grown men wailing in self-pity 2011-12-15T20:59:04Z A crowded vegetable crisper is soon a rotten one. Tips to Reduce Food Waste 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z I opened his top drawer and felt rotten. Confessions of a kleptomaniac 2012-10-10T22:05:00Z Not in the usual way of sweeping floors and doing dishes, but something much more manly: a social scrub, the kind where dirty, rotten, disrespectful young people are expunged from the neighborhood. Harry Brown: A Gran Torino That Drives on the Left 2010-04-29T20:55:00Z At one point, we hear a woman describing Russia as “a huge broken freezer: ripe bananas and rotten tomatoes.” What Is Russia Thinking? A ‘Documentary Opera’ Tries to Answer. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z One TikTok user alleged that the sauce "smelled rotten" and the bottle contained "no more than" two ounces of sauce. TikTok’s viral — and infamous — Pink Sauce is now available at Walmart 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The Soldier confronts the Devil and calls him a dirty rotten cheat. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z When she initially read him the book, Viorst says, his response was, “How come I have to have such a rotten day? Why can’t I have a great day?” His namesake had a terrible, horrible day, but Alexander Viorst is doing just fine Others are bad because what they intend is rotten in the first place. Dance Review: Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg at City Center 2012-03-11T21:20:48Z On this verbal surface, ten minutes is plenty of time for a fond frivolous moment, shining with the hope of reconciliation, to collapse like a rotten floorboard. The Agreeable Staginess of “State of the Union” 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “Most of them are half rotten. Just cut out the bad parts.” Christine Who Fed the Hungry 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z In actuality, the film can’t manage either, too immature to jolt and too simplistic about its own rotten side to exonerate itself. Why so stupid: how Joker is too juvenile to be provocative 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “There’s something rotten about a structure that produces terminological pollution and calls it theory, like a mob-controlled waste disposal company,” Ms. DeAk once wrote. Edit DeAk, a Champion of Outsider Artists, Dies at 68 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z His lyrics, whether lofty or cranky, often imply that very little is what it seems and that we are all probably doing wrong, or paying into a rotten system. Cass McCombs: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Singer-Songwriter 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The promise of being married to power changes his mind – until he visits Colin's deathbed for a final farewell expecting to find a stinking husk of rotten flesh. "What We Do in the Shadows" proves the first law of thermodynamics with its refreshing cliffhanger 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z However Bendix considered it mainly rotten timing, and similar snubs happened to several others on the night. Emmys confirm new wave of lesbian visibility: 'Everyone is reveling in it' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z With his cascade of rotten ideas, it's a good thing that Levin is creatively constipated, rarely writing even a few pages. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z “There was no indication it was rotten,” he said. Considering trimming or getting rid of an old tree? Not so fast. 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Andrei Gorzo, a Romanian film critic, said that it was harder for Romanian viewers to see “Collective” as a morally clear-cut tale of a few good people fighting to change the rotten system. Since the Oscar-Nominated ‘Collective,’ Much and Little Has Changed 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Only last week an equally daft Leonardo story splatted against the wall of reality like the rotten tomato it was. The secret of Mona Lisa's smile lies in Leonardo's painting 2012-10-04T13:00:08Z Things are rotten in the state of Thunderclap. Jim Ruland's 'Forest of Fortune' brilliantly taps casinos' irony 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Some good movies just suffer from rotten timing. Stream These 10 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in August 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z After a show, I'd hang my jeans up to dry in the tour bus, but people would get upset because they smelled really bad, like rotten cotton. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Ditto for these plums, rotten to the core. What to do when "good" ingredients are bad: put up a stink! 2010-04-13T16:53:00Z The film was deemed "rotten" by review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com, with only 12 percent of critics offering praise. Does `After Earth' end reign of Mr. Box Office? 2013-06-03T21:50:18Z Some of the hundreds of demonstrators who gathered outside the court pelted the police vehicle carrying Ariel to the court with rotten eggs and tomatoes. Indonesian pop star jailed over sex tapes 2011-01-31T07:48:08Z At its best, it evokes early 2010s indie pop act Cults, whose hit “Go Outside” was a candy-coated the Mamas & the Papas homage that hinted at a rotten core underneath. Review | Lorde returns with ‘Solar Power,’ but it’s mostly just wind 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z If a president is doing a rotten job, it’s the duty of the press to report how and why he’s doing a rotten job. Perspective | Is media coverage of Trump too negative? You’re asking the wrong question. 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z And then there are the far more serious cases: love turned bad, love turned rotten. How to dump someone on Valentine's Day – or any day – without being a jerk 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Except for Dewey, who is pathetic and hysterical but not rotten to the core, they are so repellent that almost everyone outside the movie’s fetid hothouse will want to flee to fresher air. | 'Boogie Woogie': ?Boogie Woogie? With Alan Cumming and Gillian Anderson 2010-04-22T23:32:00Z It is six stories about rotten siblings and the scary consequences that catch up with them. Blubbers and Sicksters by Jamie Rix - review 2013-03-14T09:00:00Z Whenever I feel rotten, no other soup will do. This Scottish Chicken Soup Is Its Own Kind of Medicine 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z I read that you were hit in the face with a rotten tomato in Wiesbaden during one of those concerts. Alison Knowles on How to Make a Salad and Other Fluxus Events 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z They don't build a tangible bridge between then and now and wonder why nobody's updated the slats although so many of them are rotten. “The Real World Homecoming: New York” is a beautiful suspension bridge between past and present 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z His character is ill, with a rotten job and a wife who makes Livia on “The Sopranos” seem sort of cuddly. Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z He made his prisoners eat rotten meat, for example, and filmed women in the restroom facilities. John Oliver slams Donald Trump’s Joe Arpaio pardon 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z By the time Wideman was a young man, Homewood was pockmarked with burned-out stores and bent parking meters; he compares the houses to rotten teeth. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z When, just under a year after Ruth was born, my grandmother gave birth again, it was Mina who helped out, looking after Ruth lovingly and spoiling her rotten. 'She was like a second mother': the German woman who saved our Jewish family history 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z He takes a look around and determines that something is rotten at Memorial. ‘Five Days at Memorial’ Tells the Harrowing Story of a Deadly Choice 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Taste of Home writes that this serves as insurance against one apple going rotten and ripening the others being stored. 3 tips to keep apples fresh for much longer 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Charlie Brooker described the songs that populate Black Mirror’s most humane and heartbreaking episode as that rotten egg of descriptions: “guilty pleasures”. The best TV soundtracks of 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z In a movie where almost everyone is rotten except for an innocent couple sucked into the fray, who really cares? | 'Point Blank': It?s Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police 2011-07-28T22:30:10Z If something is rotten, or spoiled, or not correct, or cut improperly or someone's wasting too much, we don't let things fester. Roy Choi shines a light on our broken food systems: "We'll throw away food before we feed people" 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z A nausea started to rack my body, and rotten smells mingled with odours I had never smelled before. Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z Something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark, but the state’s business is secondary to the disintegrating human drama exposing stark truths of our mortal condition. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Balking at playing second lead to Humphrey Bogart, Henreid called the script “terrible . . . really rotten.” ‘Casablanca’: It’s still the same old story, but it never gets old 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Of course, that isn’t saying much about these products of rotten seeds, locked in a life-or-death Darwinian struggle. Movie Review: ?Elena,? by Andrei Zvyagintsev, Set In and Around Moscow 2012-05-15T22:34:55Z When You Finish Saving the World Rated R for extreme rudeness and rotten parenting. ‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Mother and Son Disunion 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z He was there to talk about a vile old man with rotten teeth who feasts on the souls of young children. With ‘NOS4A2,’ Joe Hill Finally Sinks His Teeth Into TV 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Rotten Tomatoes currently has the film hovering at a 38 percent score, squarely in the rotten category. Will the Spiraling Publicity Harm ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ at the Box Office? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “I stuck by it and, sure, I got plenty of rotten tomatoes thrown in my face. But I knew that was going to happen so it wasn’t anything I didn’t expect.” Nicolas Cage faces off with a new foe: Himself 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z I recall a Devoted and Disgruntled conference some years ago where somebody called a session to ask why audiences didn't throw rotten tomatoes more often? Why is so much theatre so dull? 2013-02-06T14:52:58Z It doesn’t have to be great, just good enough to keep us from striking out on our own or banding together to overthrow a rotten and oppressive system. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z It not only had a great title, which Mr. Brooks chose because in Robin Hood’s time, he said, “people were living in the forest; people were living in a poor, rotten state.” Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest 2013-07-19T18:43:48Z I fell over on holiday in Germany and fractured my pelvis, which I thought that was pretty rotten luck. Murray Walker diagnosed with cancer 2013-06-17T19:14:24Z In countries with rotten financial systems, “a shake-up of banking is a shake-up of society”. The long road 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Though not a threat to human health, the seaweed, which attracts flies and smells like rotten eggs as it decomposes, is a nuisance at best and a repellent at worst. Update: Caribbean Beaches Dig Out From Massive Seaweed Invasion 2011-10-11T18:24:04Z It was like a CPR baby that smelled like rotten baby powder. O’Malley’s baby in ‘Sunday in the Park’ is a stage pro and a real doll So, if you get rotten tomatoes thrown to you later, you can still think, ‘Well, you know, maybe I’m doing something right.’ A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z "And being this old is disappointing. You just end up being ugly on the outside. And rotten on the inside. And it hurts so much!" Ghosts who grieve in video games – and how I helped them achieve a measure of peace 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Sometimes I wonder if the poster boy on Dame Street has a picture in his attic even uglier than Dorian's, rotten with the commercial hijacking of pleasure and the commercial negation of individuality. Guest blog: Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is a very modern poster boy 2012-10-08T14:20:00Z “Shock Treatment,” 1981, 50 percent rotten This little-known sequel to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is directed by the original film’s co-writer Richard O’Brien and possesses all of that movie’s madcap inventiveness and charm. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z His recent American success has seen him plying a trade in playing dirty rotten scoundrels; stinky scruffbuckets you'd cross a county to avoid. Top 23 character actors in film 2013-04-12T15:00:00Z “There’s something a little rotten,” Mr. Thompson said. The Artist Nick Cave Gets Personal About Race and Gun Violence 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z When he saw what we were up to, he rushed over looking as if he’d just smelled something rotten. I flipped my “psycho switch”: The surprising rage and fury I felt in the cage with mixed martial arts champions 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Asked why she walked away, she told The Times in 1971: “I was singing at the Palmer House in Chicago when I thought, ‘This is a rotten business.’ Susan Reed, a Fleeting Star in a Folk Music Revival, Is Dead at 84 2010-05-02T00:44:00Z Through flashbacks to Ford's rotten childhood, the film does establish a motivation. Killer instincts 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z He also needed dental surgery - some of his teeth were so rotten they bled. Portrait of a young singer on the cusp of stardom 2011-05-28T22:31:06Z A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon, “Antkind” has in Rosenberg a contrarian whose tomatoes are always rotten. Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z One by one, the characters’ shells are cracked, and what’s inside is rotten. | ?I Melt With You': ?I Melt With You,? With Rob Lowe and Jeremy Piven ? Review 2011-12-08T23:48:31Z But it is also useful in the softer, rheumy, more quietly rotten ways of the nation. Lonnae O’Neal: Death of a Nation — white supremacy is slowly killing us 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “Do you know how many rotten cucumbers were in my car?” she said, laughing at that early prop work. Leslie Jones Is Ready to Rock the Boat, Hard 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z HistoriCorps, with sponsorship by the White Mountain National Forest, is repairing the foundation and damaged door, replacing rotten logs and restoring windows. White Mountain Forest cabin getting restoration 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z The sense of anticipation, then, is great, enhanced by the band themselves, who have been talking themselves up something rotten. New band of the day ? No 822: Magnetic Man 2010-07-09T15:30:00Z The dust of this place is caked into our scalps and beneath our nails – there would be no band if it weren't for this lovely rotten town. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z Distilled in lushly hued images of tropical paradise, his vision of Tahiti as an antidote to rotten "civilisation" is positioned as an artfully contrived come-on. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z More than 500 demonstrators turned out Monday, some pelting the police vehicle carrying Ariel to the court with rotten eggs and tomatoes. Indonesian star jailed for sex-tape scandal 2011-01-31T12:42:09Z If nothing else, the Tunics and Brother have signalled the return of indie bigmouths who talk themselves up something rotten in interviews. The Tunics (No 927) 2010-12-09T17:31:00Z Perched on a rotten branch, it turns halfway, as though disturbed, and fixes the viewer with an imperious stare. ‘Audubon’s Aviary: The Final Flight’ Alights at the New-York Historical Society 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It sounds like a pretty rotten trick, but talking about it now, Mr. Spielberg gets animated. Review: HBO’s ‘Spielberg’ Is a Close Encounter with Genius 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Page, who is the show’s choreographer as well as one of its directors, posted an apparent rejoinder on Facebook, which he addressed to a “nameless person” whom he called “fake-woke” and “rotten to the core.” For Broadway’s ‘1776’ Revival, the Drama Is Offstage 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z For most of them, it’s a rotten, claustrophobic life. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z “Even a rotten book about the Titanic would sell,” Bainbridge said. Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z “One rotten test doth not a school year spoil,” his fellow student Francine assures him. Mell Lazarus, Cartoonist of ‘Miss Peach’ and ‘Momma,’ Dies at 89 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Gandhian Goodness Confronting Greed A populist streak runs through Bollywood, never more so than in the work of Prakash Jha, whose new movie, “Satyagraha,” states plainly what concerns him: “The system is rotten.” Movie Review: ‘Satyagraha,’ a Bollywood Tale About Fighting Corruption 2013-09-01T19:00:33Z “Nobody wants to paint rotten oranges any more.” The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z When the team is rotten, and both teams were dismal for many years, “the fans suffer, but we suffer more than they do. Naturally, the owner is the target.” At 92, Irene Pollin tells her story and spares no details 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The judges agreed on the following descriptors: “rotten eggs” for hydrogen sulfide, the gas with the strongest correlation to stink; “decomposing vegetables” for methanethiol; and “sweet” for dimethyl sulfide. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z The film has a 49% "rotten" rating on the review aggregator site rottentomatoes.com, and among the better-known writers the brickbats have really been flying. The A-Team: About as authentic as a Turin shroud beach towel 2010-08-02T10:36:00Z And, by extension, “Yes We Can” . . . set a rotten world right again! Review | Obama and Biden are the ultimate crime-fighting team in ‘Hope Never Dies’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Among his circle of correspondents are those who advocate "a war that was longer and might act as a purgative, sweeping away what was rotten, reducing the number of fertile males among the residuum." Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan – review 2013-02-22T21:45:01Z Sometimes you can take a whiff and get hit with smells of rotten eggs or ammonia. Scientists can recycle sewer waste into garden soil. But if it stinks, it won’t sell. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Not only is it a rotten name, but it's also decimated my article's word count. Can bands be trusted to name their own albums? 2013-06-19T13:50:47Z Konwicki didn’t want to be faced with the daily moral dilemmas that confront a person who lives in a country ruled by a rotten regime. Tadeusz Konwicki: A Polish Writer and the Scars of the Past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Like that film, it depicts a society so rotten and corrupt that decency becomes either stupid or suicidal. New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “Smell” depicts a boy holding a rotten egg, and pinching his nose. For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z We ate boiled potatoes, the only crop harvested that time of year, and as before, he reserved the least rotten spuds for me. Assessing a Quake-Shattered Nepal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The thing is, fashion is a rotten, rotten business. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z But such tensions are less interesting to liberalism’s conservative critics, who think that it’s rotten all the way down. Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “Its cats. Its pale sky. The empty sky of morning, drained and pure. Its deep, cloven streets. Its narrow courts, the faint, rotten odor within, orange peels lying in the corners.” James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z And that, rather than its terrible lyrics or derivative sound or rotten song about the riots, might be The Temper Trap's downfall: for all their grandstanding ambition, they're too easy to ignore. The Temper Trap: The Temper Trap ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:01Z But his swagger, even with that rotten leg, suggests a spiritual kinship between the two. Review: 'Logan Lucky' Is a Magnificent Movie Disguised as a Modest One 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z No, because it was already rotten due to the reality genre's version of the observer effect. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Avocados are hard but rotten around the pit. Finding Produce in Alaska’s Long Winter Takes Wiles and Luck 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z "I devoured a spoonful or two of my portion without thinking of its taste . . . burnt porridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes; famine itself soon sickens over it". Ten of the best breakfasts in literature 2010-04-16T23:07:00Z It seems to me that if we are addressing these issues at the level of orchestra auditions, we’re clipping the leaves when the roots are rotten. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z If he's rotten to the core, he'll cotton to the roar. Style Invitational Week 1467: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Clearly, something is rotten in the state of matrimony. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z I smelled an odor of rotten eggs, eggs with a greenish-yellow yolk inside the white and inside the shell, a hard-boiled egg cracked open. Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Is an affection for their music still a sure-fire and universally recognised benchmark of rotten taste, social incompetence and terminal uncoolness? Unseen Swells: 'I come not to slag off Coldplay, but to bury them' 2010-06-15T11:31:00Z But the scariest moment making "We Need to Talk About Kevin" involved being pelted with rotten tomatoes in an unruly mob. Swinton talks blood, birth and tomatoes in Cannes 2011-05-14T15:01:05Z In a hilarious takedown of the false lives people display on social media, Betty states plainly, “Everybody know fisherman don’t say he fish rotten.” Review | ‘Love After Love’ reminds readers why we go to books in search of answers to life’s great questions 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Either Hollywood smells like roses or rotten fish head. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z He described marriage as “a rotten, oppressive institution,” a “contract which smothers both people, denies needs, and places impossible demands,” especially on women. Canada's LGBTQ coin glosses over radical struggles: When did gay liberation come to mean equality? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z For some time after that, I took many opportunities to rub his face into the rotten places autism took me to. Motherlode: Grandfather Knows Best 2011-06-22T20:22:53Z The DulcoEase ladies Look, the advert already wants to be Sex and the City something rotten, so extending it to two hours seems like a no-brainer. Go Compare: the Movie - which other ads would make great films? | Stuart Heritage 2010-04-01T10:49:00Z One judge described her as "despicable and rotten", to her indignation. Tonight's TV highlights: Horizon: Science Under Attack 2011-01-24T00:04:00Z One wishes she’d chosen to focus on this one complicated, loving, resilient person and less on the rotten ones. Tama Janowitz memoir 'Scream' is strangely lacking; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But that doesn’t mean—he did do a lot of rotten things. Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Freelancer Rob dreams of running his own business but is stuck shearing sheep on demand, while hay–bailer Henry is annoyed that his social life is regularly ruined by the rotten weather. TV highlights 08/02/2013 2013-02-07T20:00:01Z I slept on the floor on a rotten bamboo mat. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z I said, “no… something is rotten in the cotton here! This isn’t right!” You Must Hear This! Rhetta Hughes’ “Gimme Some Of Yours” 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z “Rotten branches and rotten leaves,” she responds, scowling. The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life and Made a Fortune 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z He's covered in facial hair and wears rotten shoes and trousers for the opposite reason: too much mental order. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Oh yeah, rotten luck: as if it wasn't enough that the village's grief is so rudely interrupted when the focus of the mourning returns, it seems they've also got a serial killer on the loose. The Returned; Terror in The Skies; Operation Snow Tiger – TV review 2013-06-10T06:00:22Z He was pretty rotten and stubborn and drove me crazy, but I just loved him so much. Regina Hall Sees the Bigger Picture With ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘Forensic Files’ 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The Domino factory still emitted a smell of slightly rotten caramel. Christine Who Fed the Hungry 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z In her vertebrae she holds more carnal tasks: milk jugs, rotten plants, heavy- bottomed toddlers in all their mortal rage. Kate Baer Is Speaking Truth. From Her Minivan. 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z But he was also calling attention to the ways in which Buck’s novel—a masterpiece of by-the-bootstraps optimism—flattered a rotten value system. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The characters on Succession are all so broken that even romance ends up rotten and curdled. Succession's 10 best moments: from Boar on the Floor to excruciating phone sex 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z "I was getting pretty crazy and into some pretty rotten drugs and drinking a lot," he told the music writer Barney Hoskyns years later. Alex Chilton: rock's forgotten boy 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z There appears to be nothing rotten in the state of Denmark these days. Heads Up: Denmark, Where Joy Is Always in Season 2013-12-11T17:29:14Z West’s politics still bring a tremendous gravity to his verses, so it’s a pity when he frontloads the pages of his lyric book with rotten celebrity beef. Kanye West will not come down 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z She was rotten and would never improve, her appearances were feared as much as they were eagerly awaited. Have you been watching ... Angry Boys? 2011-08-10T10:42:41Z He seems like a pretty good guy, but he says some pretty rotten stuff, which I think is pretty representative of man as a whole. Actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, on his love letter to Texas 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z This rickety hostel sits by a lake, nicknamed “Big Girl,” that’s so rotten it’s turned black. Review | The post-apocalyptic world of Joy Williams’s ‘Harrow’ reads like a cautionary tale 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Trump can suck a rotten rat head infected with rabies. “F*ck Trump”: Larry Wilmore’s entire staff walks off in protest of the Donald’s xenophobia 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “Within a month, everything was rotten,” she said. 'Filth, mold, abuse': report condemns state of California homeless shelters 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The project required navigating around rotten floorboards, snakes and sketchy neighborhoods. Antiques: The Beauty That Remains Beyond the Final Curtain 2013-04-25T21:19:43Z After he cruelly provokes the suicide of the sweet-natured Sybil, Dorian is fully lost but shows none of it on his angelic face; the picture, meanwhile, ages and degrades and grows rotten in the attic. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z “In Croatia, in a patriotic trance, Ustasha crimes and their perpetrators dress up in carnival robes of rotten nostalgia, their descendants keep quiet or lie about their fathers’ and grandfathers’ pasts.” In Gory, Majestic Fiction, a Hard Look at the Holocaust’s Stubborn Silences 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z He’s increasingly unknowable, his voice has gone totally rotten, and he continues to nourish his legend by refusing to fulfill anyone’s expectations. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z They don’t notice me, but I see them clearly — two elders with faces like rotten loquats. Read an excerpt of Lisa See's 'The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z For years he was a rotten student, until late in high school he began to shine. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z We actually developed our ability to consume alcohol around 10 million years ago when we started to eat rotten fruit. We can drink booze because our ancestors were starving 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “They were pretty rotten,” he says about those shell piles. Stoney’s Seafood House: A taste of nostalgia, along with some solid crab cakes 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I saw him as spectacular evidence of a rotten barrel. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z And that’s when I found my sense of belonging, with my feet in some rotten seaweed or my hands deep in a bed of ramps. Fermenting Philip Glass: René Redzepi on Music and Cooking 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z As our reviewer, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, wrote, the novel swells “with wisdom about the self-destructive longing for paternal approval and the devastating consequences of clinging to rotten models of masculinity.” Paperback Row 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In addition, it was rotten to begin with and has not had the protection provided by burial in an ancient pyramid. I Want to Clone Your Hand: Strange Effort to Clone John Lennon Moves Forward 2013-08-22T14:59:21Z I was wretched there, lost a stone a term from sheer misery, but it wasn't because of the school's ethos so much as the fact I was teased rotten and never made any real friends. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z I didn't want this rotten prize but what could I do about it? The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z “The fight racket, since its rotten beginnings, has been the red light district of sports. But,” he lamented, “this is the first time it has been turned into an instrument of mass hate.” “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “Moldy and decaying, rotten outer layers,” another wrote. What Does Amazon Know About Your Thanksgiving Groceries? 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z They're quickly cottoning on that something is rotten in the town of Woodbury. The Walking Dead: season three, episode 14 2013-03-22T23:00:00Z A doctor suggested his rotten, infected teeth were somehow interfering with his vision, and Herbert had every single tooth pulled from his head in an effort to regain his sight. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z This series featured Elektra and a cyborg S.H.I.E.L.D. agent trying to kill a Presidential candidate named Ken Wind who is literally possessed by a demon—and smells like rotten mayo. Donald Trump, supervillain? Here are 8 evil comic book presidents who resemble the GOP front-runner 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z “The Glass Castle,” 2017, 49 percent rotten Why on earth was this movie panned? 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Like Harry Potter, Lisbeth is drawn simultaneously forward and back, toward fresh dangers that are connected to a rotten, unresolved past. | 'The Girl Who Played With Fire': Stieg Larsson?s Second Novel Is Brought to the Screen 2010-07-08T22:57:00Z And scientists expect it’s all a “new normal,” which for beach-goers, means an often rotten day at the beach. Tourist beach towns call seaweed invasion a ‘crisis’ 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But it was in that dark and rotten cell, as he described it, where he was kept in solitary confinement, that something important happened to him. “The worst spot in Gaza”: “You will not understand how hard it is here” until you see this checkpoint 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Shame they had to ruin it with that rotten film,but that's the way of the world. 'I have a tattoo of Bruce Springsteen wearing 3D glasses on my leg' 2011-02-08T11:56:00Z While it received an A- from CinemaScore, the critics weren’t as generous – the film landed a 29% “rotten” rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Jedi holiday magic: 'Star Wars' holds top spot on Christmas weekend 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Institute, “Subordination” Perhaps the least pressing question in our rotten republic: Will Donald Trump’s America generate a new class of punk bands? Perspective | Best music of 2017: Cardi B paints the world ‘Bodak Yellow’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z So painfully unaware that he's going to screw up his career something rotten twice within the space of the next 25 years. Flick teaser: How to remove a Grease stain 2010-06-02T09:15:00Z Dear Heloise: Celery gets rotten so fast that I used to throw a lot of it away. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Long live celery! 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “The waves lap against the shore, churning up a pale yellow froth. Something rotten — a dark lump — is floating a few meters out. Cardell’s first thought is that it cannot possibly be a human being.” Review | For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice — and an even darker side of Sweden 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z A. “Give not this rotten orange to your friend.” Style Invitational Week 1279: Justly do it — give us ‘accurate’ directions 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Similarly, Sücden — a previous red "rotten egg" — improved to yellow in this year's scorecard. Keep this scorecard in mind when buying Easter chocolates — and all year round 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the question of which movies are the best-reviewed begs the opposite of what titles were the most rotten. "Toy Story 3," "Social Network" top film review list 2010-12-29T19:50:00Z Instead, Fares didn't address Islamophobia at all, and rather than express interest in politics, he broadly criticized all politicians as "equally rotten." “The world is a precarious place”: How “Generation 9/11” tells a tender coming of age story 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Instead of cutting down and burying this rotten bough, Bilger decided to climb to it, build a sturdy perch, have a long look around and report his findings in a new memoir, “Fatherland.” A Grandson Investigates the ‘Reasonable’ Nazi in the Family 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z After four gynecologists, one doctor is finally confirming my suspicions: there is something rotten in the state of my body. Motherlode Blog: Fertility Diary: Finding a Doctor Who ‘Gets’ Me 2013-09-03T14:26:24Z The Chinese crested and Mexican hairless ones were all rotten teeth, missing fur and tongues hanging out. Experience: I own the world’s ugliest dog 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The "Raiders" editors removed a frame or two to make it look like he did — a visual trick that happens to underscore his character's rotten nature. Pence vs. Harris: Amid lies and side-eyes, a garbage pile of a debate attracts a fly 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But something is rotten in Denmark, where the movie begins. Movie Review: ‘Love Is All You Need,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan 2013-05-02T23:44:26Z The Hamlet allusion has hinted at something rotten in the state of England. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z Struggle was noble and the social structure rotten, but the outcome was always in doubt. Lina Wertmüller, Italian Director of Provocative Films, Dies at 93 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z By contrast, Ullmann’s dystopian vision is of a world so rotten that even Death refuses to work there, leaving people unable to die. Review | At Wolf Trap Opera, Gluck and Ullman make for strange bedfellows 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Cat On a Hot Tin Roof is Tennessee Williams' scorching southern masterpiece about self-denial and greed in a rotten 1950s American family. White Lies star writes theatre score 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z In 2001, dining with a reporter from the Times, he began by saying that he would not talk about Alice, and ended by saying, “She never knew a little vegetable from a rotten vegetable.” Jeremiah Tower, a Forgotten Father of the American Food Revolution 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Alice’s rotten relationship and her inability to accept the truth about Simon stirs up tension and makes you feel something serious is at stake: You’re worriedly on her side from the start. ‘Alice, Darling’ Review: That’s What Friends Are For 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z “Nothing says putrefying, rotten and vile quite like this sequel,” wrote another. Film: Un-Innocents Abroad: The Drubbing 2010-06-02T22:04:00Z Helstinki: Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark, but it absolutely reeks in the state of Finland. Style Invitational Week 1389: TankaWanka IV 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z If there has never been a definitive movie “Jane Eyre,” there has never been a truly rotten one. Another Hike on the Moors for ?Jane Eyre? 2011-03-05T04:23:01Z They were building squalor — making new things look old, clean things look filthy, dry things look wet, solid things look rotten. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z And yet, can we really look at the rotten edifice supporting what we’ve loved and not be at least a little revolted? After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Reviewers vivisected the film, saddling it with a 20% "rotten" rating on critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Box Office: 'Inferno' Fizzles With $15 Million as 'Madea' Pulls Off Victory 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The ruins of buildings in the South Bronx became a symbol of urban decay and new structures abandoned in mid-construction littered the skyline like so many rotten teeth. That night the lights went out 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z All 18 of the reviews on the website on Saturday had judged it thoroughly “rotten”. John Travolta's screen portrayal of crime boss Gotti takes a pelting 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Q. Who was that rotten committee who denied Samuel L. Jackson an Oscar nomination? Style Invitational Week 1341: Portmanteautapping E to R 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z We are certainly free to interpret the story of the “Maywand District murders” of 2010, as they are semi-officially known, as the story of a bad apple who turned an entire infantry platoon rotten. “The Kill Team”: When U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan became trophy hunters 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Unlike The Big Short, hedge funds do not issue MBSs with rotten mortgages they made; that was investment bankers. ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z "I got an award for everything: inhaling, exhaling. I’ve been so spoiled rotten. I’m the luckiest old broad on two feet. Truly! I’ve always been working at something." Betty White's best life lessons and funniest quotes as her 100th birthday approaches 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z So why did this movie leave such a rotten taste in my mouth? 'Something Borrowed' may make you blue 2011-05-03T19:15:04Z He's turned out to be a rotten poet, an iffy director and an academic of questionable distinction. Maladies – first look review 2013-02-11T16:26:56Z “I found rotten people to be more interesting. What made them the way they were?” Tama Janowitz memoir 'Scream' is strangely lacking; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z If Hollywood can’t learn from its mistakes before plastering them all over the internet, it can hardly blame the Twitterverse for pelting it with rotten fruit for getting things so very, very wrong. Why Max Landis is wrong about Scarlett Johansson's 'whitewashed' Ghost in the Shell remake 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z My nephew is the first grandchild on both sides and spoiled beyond rotten. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What do you buy for the family that gives your gifts away? 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z I felt as rotten as those vegetables when I stuffed so many untouched foods into the compost pile. How to make fruits and veggies last 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z London's broad avenues had none of the rotten, fishy stench of my hometown, nor the earthy scent of fields and trees particular to northern China. Short story: England and My Clan by Yan Lianke 2010-03-22T12:02:00Z The spectacle was lovable, but the singing was pretty rotten and the whole operation felt tired. Review: The Met Opera’s Grand Old ‘Aida’ Isn’t Dead Yet 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Worst of all, the film persists in the current rotten trend of making the heroine drop 40 points off her IQ when she's in a crisis. Killers: My Husband Is an Assassin (in a Very Bad Movie) 2010-06-05T02:35:00Z For the most part, the Safdies seem to enjoy mucking up Howard’s plans, intensifying his rotten luck, bad choices, collapsing home life and squabbles, pointless or otherwise. ‘Uncut Gems’ Review: Adam Sandler’s Punch-Drunk Hustle 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “The people in that scene can be sort of rotten, and you just pick up on it really quickly.” Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z "I have really rotten luck," she said good-humouredly, and that was it. Captured by Pirates, Between Ourselves, Desert Island Discs, Wild Billy Childish | Radio review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z On the menu: decayed lamb in the Faroe Islands, 32-year-old Korean bean paste and Peruvian rotten potato cheese. TV listings: Dec. 22, 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z It includes all the best vitrines, and none of the rotten "proper" paintings that he now makes at home in Devon. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z They weren’t innocents, but they had lives, codes, histories–and in many cases, runs of bad choices and rotten luck. REVIEW: The Dark Optimism of Orange Is the New Black Season Two 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Remove any pruned plant parts as well as inedible, rotten fruits and vegetables from your garden right away and compost them, as they attract noxious insects and rodents. The vital gardening practice you might be forgetting 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z The character starts out interested in Judaism because the kosher meals in Litchfield Penitentiary aren’t as rotten as the regular ones. Best TV of 2015: The best scenes, one-liners, little details and single moments that defined the year 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The White House visitor logs are like a left sock with a hole in it: You can cover them up, but eventually a rotten smell is going to make itself known. Style Invitational: We beg you to differ — it’s our compare/contrast contest 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Yet the rotten heart of Song of the South is the implication that such carefree days were easier to come by in the idealized world of the pre-civil war south. Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z In light of the rotten roles she didn’t take and the good roles she couldn’t get, Moreno’s career is a monument to strength and versatility. Rita Moreno on strength, stamina and the power of a killer body There’s not much more I can say about the intrigue of “The Improbability of Love” without being a rotten spoiler. Review: In ‘The Improbability of Love’ by Hannah Rothschild, an Art-World Caper 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Still, the headlines quickly lapped the story up on the host’s “latent racism” and declared his behavior proof he was ”just being an awful, no-good, rotten ally.” Jon Stewart isn’t perfect — and why should we expect him to be? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z He was an avid reader of the pulps himself and decided, he said later, that “I could write stories just as rotten.” ?John Carter,? Based on ?Princess of Mars? 2012-03-04T23:25:48Z It's not necessarily harmful to eat, but think of it like eating any other rotten fruit, such as bananas or apples. How to store potatoes so they last for months (yes, months!) 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z So caught up in my shame and failings, I hadn’t stepped back to see that society’s teachings around sex were pretty rotten. 'I wanted to explore my own pleasure' – how I rebooted my sex life 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Red bricks, one floor, plus a rotten and wind-beaten patio enclosure. Home at Last in the Wind, Rain and Isolation of the North Sea Coast 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Hoping he can someday show his baby sister what her mother looked like and knowing there’s only one photo left undamaged in this rotten world, Carl risks his life to retrieve it. The Walking Dead Watch: The Writing on the Wall 2013-03-04T15:52:09Z “The veterans here may look not very ill, but many of us are rotten from inside with illnesses,” she said, her face red after emerging from a sauna session. Vietnamese turn to Scientology to treat Agent Orange victims 2013-04-04T13:01:00Z But others allergic to the 1970s might respond with an embarrassed shrug and mention that rotten dirge I Just Called to Say I Love You. Old music: Stevie Wonder – Visions 2013-03-14T07:00:00Z Overwhelmed: Wake up every morning accepting that bad things might happen, and go to bed accepting that someone might die the next day — whether your year has been rotten or not. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: We feel pain, because we love 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z “Now, we are reaping the rotten fruit of that practice.” Republicans have ‘concerns’ about Trump — but won’t let reporters quote them by name about it 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Last week it was the incredulous crack about being served rotten meat instead of fish. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: A Regression to the Mean 2014-04-21T02:01:11Z It was a bad weekend, however, to open a mainstream movie — for the first time in more than a decade, no new film cracked the $10 million threshold — and a truly rotten week for cyclists. Expendables 2 Takes the Top Slot Again, but Obamaphobia is Riding High 2012-08-26T22:33:37Z From passionate pictures of them happy, so happy, together to their nightmarish evisceration of a rotten relationship in the film of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Love is pain. That's the message of the Richard Burton–Elizabeth Taylor story 2013-06-05T16:00:01Z “And be pilloried for 24 hours so we can throw rotten fruit at them.” All the times the pundits declared Donald Trump toast — and what they say now 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z He is the measure of our inability to protect our children from all that is rotten in the world, and you can hear his soul weeping. Tony Parsons' top 10 troubled males in fiction 2010-05-26T12:22:00Z Still, it makes for a fun exercise, if only because it forces writers to put their taste on display and invite readers to throw rotten fruit at it. The Fantastic Five 2011-07-22T23:30:00Z “The case and the bow were almost rotten,” she writes, “but the violin was damaged in only one tiny spot.” Her 300-year-old instrument was in perfect condition. Had it been interred? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Ray Pepi’s firm, Building Conservation Associates, has been at work since 2003 on the Grand Hotel’s roof, which presented a mess of broken slate, rotten wood and failing marble. | Mansard Roofs: The Heyday of Mansard Roofs 2011-03-06T05:00:07Z He’s outraged by the idea that the public is only ever warned about skin lesions and rotten teeth. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z They own the city, these roughnecks whose minds are deep in the gutter and whose language is as ripe as rotten fruit. Unmasking Magic and Murder in the Best New Crime 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z |
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