| 单词 | seamy |
| 例句 | But at night things got a little seamy at last, and from 9 p.m. to three in the morning the men streamed into Sixty-Niners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And though it would certainly add color to my story to present a descent into a seamy underworld, I can’t fail to mention that the North Beach Strip is only a few blocks long. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Weaving through rush-hour traffic on Turtle's bike, Theo trailed the bus to a seamy downtown district across the railroad tracks where Crow and Otis got off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Now in a vigorous new staging at Seattle Repertory Theatre, this pungently seamy visit to a Chicago junk shop zeros in on a trio of inner city scavengers and schemers. A vigorous new staging of Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ at Seattle Rep 2013-01-18T21:38:59Z There’s nothing overtly negative about Toulouse-Lautrec’s art, but a seamy undercurrent surfaces in images of top-hatted rakes trolling for young women, and of young women seducing older men. Toulouse-Lautrec’s Groundbreaking Prints at MoMA 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Despite seamy, well-chosen locations, Mr. Gooding is way too heavy-handed in his scoring and visual choices. Review: In ‘Bayou Caviar,’ the Main Course Is a Cold-Blooded Noir 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Buruma recounts the decadent sensuality of Japanese life at the fringe, in some places evoking Donald Richie’s underrated novel “Tokyo Nights” and its taxonomy of the seamier side of life in the Japanese capital. Coming of Age as Performance Art: An Outsider in 1970s Japan 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z He has a nose for quaintness, and is especially fond of discovering in it life's seamy regions. Comedy gold: Frank Skinner – Stand-Up 2013-01-03T13:29:44Z The image of the vulnerable, endangered child haunts today’s consciousness more urgently than ever, as children increasingly do their playing online, in often seamy virtual realities where real-life strangers with bad intentions are easily encountered. ‘Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000’ at MoMA 2012-07-26T16:28:17Z Mr. Cohn eventually slipped from his perch of dark allure and became embroiled in an embezzlement scandal and the seamy case of a death connected to a mysterious fire on a yacht. Matt Tyrnauer: Chronicler of Trump’s Mentor Roy Cohn 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z With its dry-eyed view of the seamier side of show business, it is a superior pop-star portrait. A Star Turn In a Diva Portrait 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Bouk writes in the new book of his grandparents telling “‘seamy’ stories of love,” starting with their meet-cute over a pair of crooked stockings, and how the census has “created statistical holes alongside statistical wholes.” Counting the Population Has Always Been Political 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z But Season 3 of “The Wire” proved that it was also possible to find suspense and meaning in the seamiest margins of city council meetings and municipal elections. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z He proves to be a fixer in other ways, laying bare the seamy side of French literary politics. Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z We'll have no more films that show the seamy side of American life. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z The digging exposes the seamy side of Holly’s cadre of extreme sports frenemies, along with possibly shady business practices of Max Rager, an energy drink that sponsors much of their daredevil activity. 'iZombie' recap: 'Flight of the Living Dead' 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The investigation takes the initially skeptical Rebus far from the seamy side of Edinburgh, his usual turf. Detective John Rebus returns 2013-01-24T23:29:57Z The play goes to the heart of newspapering — and the ineluctable lure of the big story — but it’s also about the seamy day-to-day reality of poking around where you’re not always wanted. Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Get the lowdown on Hot Springs’ seamier side in this museum, whose audiovisual galleries explore the lives of famous criminals in the Valley of the Vapors. Soaking up history in Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Along the way, there’s a good bit of ugliness — Frost tortures a torturer to extract information — and close-up views of some of the seamier precincts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Review | Walter Mosley is back with a whole new character to love 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Social Distortion’s frontman, Mike Ness, no shrinking violet, turned the arena into a seamy club with ease. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Devilish bargains range from a routine compromise on selecting a vice presidential candidate to the kind of sublimely evil deal that conceals some seamy truths about a candidate in order to advance a gleaming agenda. George Clooney Presents ?The Ides of March? in Toronto 2011-09-09T23:58:39Z Actresses keep fleeing the genteel personas the show saddled them with, finding refuge in seamier characters. Review: Another ‘Downton Abbey’ Heroine Goes Dark 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z "The Dry" takes this juicy setup and uses it to examine the seamy underbelly of this small farming community. "The Dry" is a desolate, engrossing mystery in which everyone – even Eric Bona – is guilty 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Pinsky is a poet who knows his gods but also a lot about the seamier crevices of men and women. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z Yet a sap may pray: May my eyes yet see me reap a paper’s seamy type? Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z A suspicious car crash leads the investigating cop into Mumbai's seamier side in this suspense thriller. This week's new films 2012-12-01T00:05:52Z Jack, we learn in the premiere, went the way of practically all child stars after the show ended, sinking into a seamy life, aided by Triumph. Review: In ‘The Jack and Triumph Show,’ a Mama’s Boy Faces Temptation 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Suddenly, Verhoeven finds himself tacking between Paris’s seamiest streets and the hushed precincts of academia and specialist bookstores. ‘Irène,’ by Pierre Lemaitre, a French Crime Novel 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z In the film Mr. Jarecki uses washed-out colors to convey the gritty, seamy feel of Times Square in the 1970s and 1980s. Film: That?s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn?t Do It 2010-11-24T19:49:00Z The opening scene, a “Blade Runner” homage that leads into a dark, seamy version of the typical “Star Wars” cantina, is a witty example of the show’s method. ‘Andor’ Review: Star Wars Without the ‘Star Wars’ 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Their Virgil into this seamy world spoke frankly of the human toll. ‘The Deuce’ Recalls Sex and Sleaze in 1970s Times Square 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Nader Homayoun’s debut feature presents a searing portrait of the city’s hidden, seamier side, a world of child trafficking, smuggling of just about anything, and assorted other criminal activities. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z The film, whose style and subject matter — unusual for the time — attracted wide attention in the news media, starred Barbara Baxley as a divorced woman navigating the seamy underside of Los Angeles. Joseph Strick, Screenwriter, Is Dead at 86 2010-06-08T04:52:00Z Girl Through Glass” adds another title to the growing list of films, television shows and novels that exploit ballet for its supposed seamy, sequined underworld rife with backstage drama. Review: ‘Girl Through Glass’ leaps to the peak of the dance world 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Graham aces the film’s most wicked stabs of comedy, at no cost to his character’s seamy undercurrent of danger. For your consideration: this season's most overlooked film performances 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Nguyen’s narrator tries to escape his past as he navigates the seamy underworld of 1980s Paris. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z An even darker glimpse of the city’s seamy side lurks downtown at the Fremont Street Experience, which to me more resembles a zombie apocalypse. Instead of wandering the seamy Vegas Strip, seek out these two oases of calm 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z After hearing about the seamy side of 15th-century life, we were eager for something a little more innocent, so we headed to the nearby garden island of Mainau. Biking and baring it all on a tour around Europe’s Lake Constance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The best way to approach any von Sternberg film is to look, first, to the surfaces — ornate, seamy or otherwise. Ready for Drama (and Meta-Drama)? Start With These Two Masters. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z In moments like these, the film summons up a gloriously seamy city, even as it invites us to imagine its erasure. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z One somewhat seamy performance that was unexpectedly overlooked: Matthew McConaughey in "Magic Mike." The Carpetbagger: ‘Django’ and Weinstein Get Oscar Boost 2012-12-13T15:30:18Z Violence and chaos break loose in the not coincidentally named town of Salem after a data hack exposes the seamy texts, photos and secrets of the residents. The Best and Worst Movie Trailers From Comic-Con 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z There was an eerie, almost American sadness to all the stories, whether set in Evers's native north-west of England or the seamy gambling strips of Reno and Vegas. If This Is Home by Stuart Evers – review 2012-07-27T21:45:11Z The best films about Hollywood, such as Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, have always reflected the seamy and delusional side of the town. Why no future Hollywood star could ever match Lauren Bacall's allure 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Today the seamier side of liberation is not entirely absent from popular accounts. Rape by American Soldiers in World War II France 2013-05-20T22:19:19Z I’ve had no opinions to offer about those high-toned entries, however, because I’ve been spending all my time with the festival’s seamy underbelly: a rich, fatty layer of horror, crime, martial arts and transgressive comedy. Film: The Tribeca Film Festival?s Cinemania Series Has Dark Treasures 2010-04-22T22:56:00Z “Hightown” captures a seamier side of life in this vacation paradise. Review | New TV is starting to dwindle, so watch these 3 recent shows that are among summer’s best 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z If noir is a style, its hallmarks might include terse dialogue, an interest in seamy aspects of human behavior and black-and-white cinematography. Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z If you can linger, the Prohibition tour is a colorful introduction to the village’s seamier past. A little bit of France, only 16 miles from Canada 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “Perhaps the most striking aspect of it is the sweep and vitality of the dazzling Jerome Robbins dances that the kids of the seamy West Side do,” Mr. Crowther wrote in The Times in 1961. DVD: New on DVD: ?Jean Arthur: Comedy Collection? 2011-11-12T22:03:03Z And “The Traffickers” investigates the seamy side of the black market. What’s on TV Sunday: Donald J. Trump on ‘60 Minutes’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The general thesis of the book is essentially sound, if heavily weighted on the seamy side. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Director Jessica Stone’s production coolly leans into the footlights and casts a slightly malevolent tone as the troupe ambles onto the stage and promises to show us a seamy reflection of ourselves. Review | Becky Sharp returns with razzmatazz in Kate Hamill’s stripped-down ‘Vanity Fair’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Here, the movie is saying, is the denied reality behind every seamy cop show, every sexed-up horror flick, every picturesque Jack the Ripper tourist attraction, every swooning film studies seminar on the Psycho shower scene. Film review: The Killer Inside Me 2010-06-03T21:08:00Z For decades, Leadville was a seamy contrast to the splendor around it. Journeys: Step by Step, Hut by Hut in Colorado 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z Laurens cites a writer named Ludovic Halévy, known for a scandalous serial set in the seamy world backstage. Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z He does, however, have insights into the seamier side of tabloid journalism. Edinburgh fringe's amateur comedians turn headlines into punchlines 2012-07-23T14:26:47Z Dulli is taking us for a ride, showing us around the seamy underworld he has created in his music. Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli: “Writing songs is the greatest gift I could give myself” 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z With a title that makes no secret of its theme, it looks at the seamy side of the music industry's star-making machinery. 'Breaking Through' shows seamy side of stoking the star-making machinery 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Marrying fact and fiction, Jane Goldman’s seamy screenplay is wildly overstuffed; but the director, Juan Carlos Medina, gives the music hall scenes a rowdy authenticity. Review: In ‘The Limehouse Golem,’ Bawdy Limericks and Bloody Corpses 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z There’s so much material roiling in “Ninth Street Women,” from exalted art criticism to the seamiest, most delicious gossip, that it’s hard to convey even a sliver of its surprises. ‘Ninth Street Women’ Shines a Welcome New Light on New York’s Postwar Art Scene 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z As he probes the succulent seamy underbelly of nineteen-sixties Los Angeles, he is serially beaten by cops, roughed up by heavies, shamed by society, and mocked by fate. The Straightforward Trashiness of “I Am the Night” 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The book offers a powerful glimpse into the seamy side of 1970s rock 'n' roll, a time capsule-like rendering of a bygone age. Inside the untold story of John Lennon's legal war with a Mafia-connected label owner 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The writer and artist Luc Sante is the author of “Low Life,” about the seamy underside of bygone New York, and “The Other Paris,” an alternative history of the French capital. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Parts of the seamy medieval quarter, historically a red-light district and now home to a sizable immigrant population, remain stubbornly resistant to gentrification. Finding Poetry in a Couple?s Pain 2011-07-29T20:01:01Z Degas did not ignore the sad, seamy fact of their connection. Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Working with cinematographer Robby Müller, Friedkin puts a Los Angeles on screen that is equal parts glamorous and seamy, where even the palm tree in the movie’s logo looks like a gunshot wound. Review: Gal Gadot stars in the routine, less-than-wondrous 'Heart of Stone,' plus more 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z But for fans of those seamy places where art and smut intersect, this movie is a nasty little treat. Review: 'Bird Box Barcelona' doesn't fly far from the original nest, for good and ill 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z There’s no seamy underside to these works, which are both elegant and modern, as if there is no contradiction between the two ideas. Review | A forgotten Impressionist is rediscovered at the Phillips Collection 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The seamy and violent underside of sports tribalism was fully exposed Saturday at a professional soccer game in Mexico. Man thrown over railing in violent brawl outside SoFi Stadium after Chargers game 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But it was politics — at its seamy and dishonest worst — that remained a reliable muse for Mr. McGrath. Douglas McGrath, wide-ranging film director and playwright, dies at 64 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z At 69, German had spent 40 years covering the seamier sides of Sin City. How a Las Vegas newsroom set out to solve a colleague’s killing 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The seamy district of Moldovanka, filled with low-slung buildings and small factories, was to the Jewish community of Odesa what the Lower East Side once was to New York’s Jews. Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z A former golf pro that a young Woods worked with, Joe Grohman, revealed how he and Earl Woods exposed the prodigy to a seamy side of life. HBO film seeks a look behind Tiger Woods’ public persona 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z This anatomy of moral cowardice and seamy self-interest watches the Republicans shrug off their principles as they surrender to Trump’s hostile takeover of their party and make “a deal with the devil”. Eight of the best books about Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z “Even with Nixon and Reagan, who trafficked in the seamier side of politics, there was some acknowledgement of the need for racial equality.” News Analysis: 'Something's got to give': Trump stirs old racial hatred, but this time feels different 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Beyond the seamy aspects that you’d find in any crime story, you find something else – things that fascinate us because something in these stories IS us. Listen to the new L.A. Times podcast 'It was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z His many pursuers eventually track him to the Wild Goose Lake, which is where the resourceful Ai’ai, one of the many “bathing beauties” who work this seamy, crime-ridden vacation spot, enters the picture. Review: 'Bacurau' and 'The Wild Goose Lake' are two of the most stylish action thrillers around 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It's the seamy underbelly of the Trump presidency. Why does Trump love to hang with bottom-feeders, crooked lawyers and porn stars? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Much as with Clinton’s seamy conduct with a White House intern, Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of what Trump did to the Ukrainian president. Sondland bursts the ‘perfect’ bubble 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z In London’s seamy underworld, a dishonest wrestling promoter finds himself a marked man after crossing a crime kingpin. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z He delves into the seamy underworld of Southern California’s drug trade and the secrets of an Evangelical megachurch. This week's book talks dive into religion, death and politics 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Rather, it is the depiction of the seamy world of power brokers like Mr. Craig that prosecutors have painted during nearly two weeks of testimony and in an array of court filings. Trial of High-Powered Lawyer Gregory Craig Exposes Seamy Side of Washington’s Elite 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Afterward, Day seemed uneasy at having exposed so much and ill at ease on the publicity trail; she was snarky to Barbara Walters for pressing her on some of the seamier details in the book. Doris Day: A guileless natural on screen and record, and a mystery even to her devotees 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Jonah Hill is his seamy agent, and Snoop Dogg is a rapper named Lingerie. The Winning Excess of “The Beach Bum” 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Such belief in the virtue of the people emerges throughout these reports — an unexpected epilogue to their relentless documenting of the seamy side of American public life. Review | Every report on past presidential scandal was a warning. Why didn’t we listen? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Spreading fake information “is taking place in a very seamy, but small, corner of Twitter,” Lazer said. On Twitter, limited number of characters spreading fake info 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z It was a seamy tale of blood and lust. Pamela Smart got four boys to kill her husband nearly 29 years ago. Now, they're free. She isn't. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z But it didn’t have anyone who really understands the seamier side of college basketball. Perspective | College basketball coaches could be free of shoe companies today. They don’t want to. 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In the merciless heat and cold, they sweat and shiver on staked ground, prompting resentful neighborhood complaints about lost business and children exposed to the seamy daily spectacle. The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It was Prince who next asked him to write the libretto for a musical that took a look at a seamy slice of life in Germany just before the Nazi takeover. Joe Masteroff, story writer for the musical ‘Cabaret,’ dies 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z “Die a Little,” set in seamy 1950s Los Angeles, was published in 2005. Megan Abbott talks TV projects, Raymond Chandler and women-centered crime fiction 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z But in an unguarded moment of candor captured secretly, our lieutenant governor and gubernatorial candidate Casey Cagle recently afforded us a sickening glimpse of the sordid, seamy underbelly of Georgia politics. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Nack also examined the seamier side of horse racing, covering the escalating use of painkillers to keep old horses running. William Nack, prizewinning sportswriter and bard of Secretariat, dies at 77 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Difference here is that Mr Clinton knew that the Starr was focusing on a personal, seamy, twardy scandal that will destroy image he had built despite the campaign. Wrenched From Scandal to Success, Trump Looks Ahead, and Over His Shoulder 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z In dark and seamy Hollywood backrooms, Ms. Bloom observed her boss’ participation in a high-stakes poker tournament, learning the intricacies of the game along the way. Aaron Sorkin, ‘West Wing’ creator and director of ‘Molly’s Game,’ calls D.C. a great place to film 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The gradient is also seamy, sleazy, and sickening. What's the common denominator among sexual harassers? Too often, it's money 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z When Ross complains that Hefner represented "the seamy side of capitalism" does he mean to imply that there is actually a pristine side of capitalism? Opinion | Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z As word leaked about Bell’s impending departure, more details about a seamy side to the “economic emancipation” campaign started to emerge. Deal that undid Bell Pottinger: inside story of the South Africa scandal 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Give politicians some power and a job to get done, and they quickly forget their righteous critiques of the seamy practices they denounced when the other side was running things. Republicans who decried Obamacare secrecy now writing legislation in secret 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z For all its splendor, the Chishi Bridge, in Hunan Province, exemplifies the seamy underside of China’s infrastructure boom. China’s New Bridges: Rising High, but Buried in Debt 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Trump is seamier, cruder and more temperamentally authoritarian than Bush and Obama, and his Russian romance lacks the establishment pedigree of the Bush-Saudi connections and the cosmopolitan idealism of Obama’s wooing of the Muslim world. Not so fast on declaring a ‘Manchurian’ president 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But the act was a shock, even for a series about the seamy underbelly of a reality dating show. Beware the bucolic locale, those lovely settings have gone lethal on television lately 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Long before movies like “The Wolf of Wall Street” or “The Big Short” were popular fare, Mr. Byron was revealing the seamy underside of the investing game. Christopher Byron, Financial Writer and Author of ‘Martha Inc.,’ Dies at 72 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Truth Is Stranger Than Florida This new true-crime series explores the seamier side of the Sunshine State. Friday's TV Highlights: The new Hallmark Channel movie 'Christmas List' and more 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It tended to lend his songs a comical quality, one that offset his often seamy lyrics. Slick Rick: ‘You learn from prison time – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The new true-crime series “Truth Is Stranger Than Florida” looks at the seamier side of the Sunshine State. TV This Week, Nov. 20-26: 'Anne of Green Gables,' Thanksgiving specials and more 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Prosecutors picked through McDonnell’s seamy emails about his wife and his marriage and all his money machinations. McDonnell scandal ends with a shrug. He can’t compete with Trump for our attention. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But so is Bridges' seamy wisdom and deep-seated desire to be useful and active, even with forced retirement looming. Hell or High Water answers the questions No Country For Old Men asks Hell or High Water answers the questions No Country For Old Men asks 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Of the seamy underside of politics I knew nothing, of course. Sixty years and nothing to show: The slow decay of American politics since Eisenhower, Stevenson 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Analysts say Akali Dal is worried about a potential blockbuster film highlighting the seamier side of Punjab being released nine months before state assembly elections are scheduled. Things India's film censors are worried about audiences seeing: long kisses, gay themes and now a gritty story about drugs 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Bossie contended that voters under the age of 35 are only vaguely aware of the seamier side of the Clintons’ previous tenure in the White House. Why Donald Trump is dredging up all the old Clinton scandals 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Those places can harbor the ugliest feelings and seamiest beliefs, yet go undetected if a person speaks and acts otherwise. SNYDER: It’s not the intent of Steven Adams’ statement, but instead the impact 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Donald Trump dominated campaign news, both in political maneuvering on Capitol Hill and seamier stories — like a former butler threatening to lynch President Obama and his contradictory relationships with women. Your Weekend Briefing: Transgender Rights, Donald Trump, Doping 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z But human trafficking is, and has been, a shadowy and seamy part of D.C. life. Washington D.C.’s serious sex-trafficking problem 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, comedians and cartoonists mined the details of Clinton’s seamy sex life for every last ounce of satire. Will Donald Trump crash the Golden Globes? 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Sheinkopf says Trump’s attacks present an opportunity for Clinton opponents to remind voters of the seamier aspects of the Clinton presidency that for many pre-dates their political consciousness. Donald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of abuse in escalation of sexual politics row 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Nor is the seamier side of politics forgotten: South Carolina has often surpassed other states in reptilian campaign tactics. The Firewall State 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z For nearly eight minutes, the piece wrings its hands over the illegal activity that happens on the seamy underbelly of the internet without making any effort to determine its size, scope, or rate of growth. Chattanooga just discovered the dark web, and it is freaking out 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “The ongoing killings really have brought a magnifying glass to the city and shown its seamier aspect, and I think people respond to that and get worried,” he said. Baltimore civic groups work to restore image of city 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The dispute between the two leaders of the global proletariat late June ended in a scuffle, according to city officials and other impersonators, exposing the seamier side of capitalism around Moscow’s main tourist site. In Moscow, Lenin and Stalin Look-Alikes Jostle for Tourists’ Cash 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z "Pot, Valium and other things. The romantic interest for me ended there. He was ambitious, young and wanted to be a rock star. He certainly never walked away from the seamy side." Sam Slovick captures Occupy L.A.'s rage in 'Radicalized' documentary 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z And yes, it looks cloudy and seamy out there. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fifth Test, day one – live! 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z At best, some argued, the offer was a seamy inducement. Apparent 'pay to cite' offer sparks internet outrage 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z When coarse mogul Donald Trump joined the cast of characters onstage for the first party debate in Cleveland, the seamy showman of "The Apprentice" seemed punch drunk in his element. Mean Boys 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z But he imbues even his most marginalized characters with strength, dignity and even wisdom as they boldly navigate the Dream Factory’s seamiest underbelly on their own self-possessed terms. As a day in the life, ‘Tangerine’ bursts with creativity and compassion 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Watergate burglary overseer Howard Hunt was set to appear Monday afternoon before the Watergate grand jury; he had blackmailed the White House by threatening to reveal “seamy stories,” and he knew several. The darkness that consumed Nixon: Why “Tricky Dick” could never do him justice 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z And yes, it looks cloudy and seamy out there. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fifth Test, day one – live! 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It is documents like these that are providing an unusual level of insight into the seamy side of Saudi diplomacy. WikiLeaks reveals Saudi intrigue and unpaid limo bills 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z She also remembers the seamier side of that world. An Artist With Too Many Ideas to Consider Retiring 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The intense, nearly 2-hour-long crime drama, directed by Rupert Wyatt, now offers Blu-ray viewers a visually stark, seamier side of Los Angeles with muted colors throughout and presented in the 1080p transfer. Blu-ray reviews: Big Eyes, The Gambler and Last Days in Vietnam 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z James O'Hern, the newly assigned investigator, and the FBI found evidence suggesting that Licciardi was actually Sharper's connection to New Orleans' seamy side. Inside the Police Failure to Stop Darren Sharper’s Rape Spree 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Above the seamy underside of college basketball — the institutional, incessant selling — this is a great New York story, the homecoming of a boy from a bedroom in Brooklyn once filled with bunk beds and brothers. Can Chris Mullin Thrive on Name and Local Ties? Peers Say Yes 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z What sex shops there were — mostly seamy red-light-district affairs — were owned by, and catered to, men. Dell Williams, Founder of Sex Boutique, Dies at 92 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The trial, which is scheduled to last three weeks, has been described as a test of changing attitudes in France about the seamier side of politicians’ personal lives. Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in court on pimping charges 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z For the next several years, though, visitors flocked to what was described variously as "seamy Comdex rejects" and the "recess" to Comdex’s classroom. Inside Adultdex, the cyberporn convention that time forgot 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The British Embassy travel warnings for Thailand are a sobering reminder of the seamier side of its resorts. Paradise island murder mystery 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z From what we know, is this in the realm of fair competition or something seamy and possibly illegal? Uber’s Secret Agents: Was Poaching From Lyft Unethical? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z As revenues soared, the transplant trade revealed itself as the seamy underside. Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of reason to cast aspersions on the story of the alleged victim; reading a seamy police report will tell you that. Inside a sordid mess in Eugene, there's a teaching moment 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Scandals have uncovered pervasive doping in everything from baseball to cycling, outing drug users and revealing the seamy, performance-enhanced side of elite sports. USA Track & Field Gives Dennis Mitchell, Banned for Doping in the Past, Another Chance 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z James Stewart of the New York Times sums up the seamy story . Steve Jobs, Near Capitalist Criminal, Refutes the Decline of Capitalism 2014-05-05T00:44:00Z It is prohibited at American racetracks, but has long been a part of the sport’s seamier lore. New Light on Seamy Role of Buzzers in Horse Racing 2014-03-27T21:20:21Z Researcher Garth Bruen long has investigated the seamier corners of the Internet, but even he was shocked to discover Rapetube.org, a site urging users to share what it called “fantasy” videos of sexual attacks. How violent porn site operators disappear behind Internet privacy protections 2013-12-06T19:59:34Z Somehow, the possibly seamy hydroponics store made a certain amount of sense on Hicks Street, a block known for its noise, its grit and the danger its speeding traffic poses to pedestrians. City Room: A Stylish Tavern’s Unlikely Origins, and Location 2013-08-18T15:00:09Z However much the puritan lobby might dislike this seamier side of human nature, at least the commercial nexus confined it to adults and kept it out of the reach of children. Porn: do we really want internet providers to be censors? 2013-06-29T23:01:06Z Mr. Lei was among the first of a succession of party officials whose seamy misdeeds were exposed on the Internet, leading to their downfalls, after Mr. Xi became party leader in November. Chinese Official in Sex Scandal Gets 13-Year Sentence 2013-06-28T08:19:20Z In India a scheme is not an underhanded plot, or a piece of seamy intrigue; it is on par with a countrywide macroeconomic plan or a national developmental mission. India Ink: The War on Misguided Youth and Other Indian Euphemisms 2013-06-27T06:09:29Z Its seamy side once saw it dubbed Rio sur Mer, but I felt it was more like Paris in the sun. Marseille's cultural moment 2013-04-28T05:30:01Z The black money amnesty also drew attention to the seamier side of the Karachi stock market. Insight: Pakistan's booming market no black and white matter 2013-04-09T21:07:16Z But there is a seamy aspect to the surge in petitions as well. Obama's Re-Election Inspires Southern Secessionists 2012-11-14T22:05:21Z The publishing magnate Walter H. Annenberg was so enraged by an article on a seamy side of his family’s past that he kept advertising for his TV Guide out of The Times for months. Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Transformed Times, Dies at 86 2012-10-04T17:00:02Z The publishing magnate Walter H. Annenberg was so enraged by an article that mentioned a seamy side of his family’s past that he kept advertising for his TV Guide out of The Times for months. Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Changed The Times, Dies at 86 2012-09-29T14:28:37Z The New York Times reports that the rumor of a seamy past was spread by opponents of her husband in 2006, the year in which he met her. Walmart’s Passage to India 2012-09-24T05:00:00Z They mostly stayed in the visitors' clubhouse while the Cubs took batting practice, but they looked listless for much of the seamy afternoon at Wrigley Field. Weary Giants lose 6-4 to Cubs 2012-09-01T01:46:03Z A less one-sided news media campaign, a renewed attention to the seamy aspects of her wrestling past and the Democratic gravitational pull will produce a victory for Mr. Murphy, they say. In Connecticut, Attack Ads Chip Away Christopher Murphy’s Lead in Senate Race 2012-08-29T01:44:03Z Hemingway certainly didn't mean his throwaway comment to be ammunition for the seamy underbelly of the internet in its ongoing war against women. Borderlands 2 'girlfriend mode': why a casual misstep matters 2012-08-14T12:12:23Z But there’s a seamier side to the neighborhood too—on the small street just behind the village, several stores have sprung up with signs proclaiming, in English, the words “Sex Shop.” Foreigners At The Gates 2012-07-30T05:00:00Z No more using semantics to try to dance around the responsibility of policing the seamy side of college athletics. Column: NCAA must act: Gut Penn State football 2012-07-14T19:27:13Z Watergate and its many seamy sideshows had made muckraking a respectable trade. Mike Wallace, CBS Pioneer of ?60 Minutes,? Dead at 93 2012-04-08T15:55:29Z It was something alien from the seamy side of life which the girl knew so well. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z He who wrote "Under the king's hearthstone are many cockroaches" knew his world--a seamy, ugly, vicious, dangerous world. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z But perhaps we have dwelt too long on the seamy side of the duties of a mistress of hounds. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z The acting life, though, had a seamy side that bothered her. The Long Run: Political Lessons, From a Mother?s Losing Run 2012-02-24T03:51:32Z Two large tears stole down the Weasel's seamy cheeks. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Part of our brains knows the business side, the seamy side, the pressure to perform in a tiny window of time before you become obsolete faster than yesterday’s model of iPod. Leading Off: Leading Off: Sports Lost a Ray of Sunlight in Gary Carter 2012-02-17T14:07:50Z The argument for conformity is put so plausibly that it is calculated to deceive the very elect; and then as if by mere inadvertence we are allowed a glimpse of the seamy side. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z As a child, he said, he and his friends heard of seamy activities along the expressway. | Long Island: Michael Cuesta Is Back Home With a New Film, ?Roadie? 2012-01-14T03:39:39Z A notorious artifact, “Deep Throat” became a target in the early efforts of New York City to rid Times Square of its seamier elements. Joel J. Tyler, Judge Who Ruled ?Deep Throat? Obscene, Dies at 90 2012-01-14T22:51:56Z One was expected to keep the seamy side of one's life decorously out of sight; but if that were done, a few "slips" of the kind were taken as a matter of course. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z She knows more about the seamy side than I do. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z He had a certain shrewdness and knowledge of the seamy side of human nature which stood him in good stead. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z It is better that you should be made aware of the existence of the seamy side of life, so that later on, if you come in contact with it, your mind may be prepared. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z A few thoughts: In the early 1970s, as pro football was becoming the nation’s most popular spectator sport, a group of ex-players exposed, through both their words and their actions, the game’s seamy underside. The Fifth Down: Remembering Pete Gent, Who Wrote 'North Dallas Forty' 2011-10-02T09:52:38Z She said the discussion is about business and alliances, and finding the proper fit, and she does not view it as "seamy." Malloy: UConn in enviable position in shakeup 2011-09-20T19:23:08Z But there was a seamy side to this cloth of gold. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z I have not sold furs for thirty years without knowing the seamy side of a Court robe. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z He was no fool, and had a large experience of the seamy side of life, which was sufficient to safeguard him from illusions. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z But far be it from concealing the fact that there is a seamy side to life in Port Blair. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z The same way we came to study Weiner's shiny torso and seamy texts: through technologies whose risks were not fully appreciated at the time. No Pictures, Please! 2011-06-16T10:10:00Z It was the seamy side of war that thrust itself upon their sight. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z While it is harder and harder to paint over college football’s seamy side, the Olympics will get a fresh coat of varnish from NBC, which landed United States television rights to four more Games. Leading Off: When It Counts 2011-06-08T15:59:39Z The seamy side of life had indeed been his—failure, straitened means, disappointment in every form, and worse. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Had not Countess Löwenjoul, who herself dealt with the same topics in a confused sort of way, and had obviously seen the seamy side of life, described her as quite innocent! Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z May was not long in discovering the seamy side of all the luxury which surrounded her; and it amazed her. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z Funeral directors were outraged by the book, which covered the seamy side of the industry with attentive detail. The costly business of dying 2011-03-28T13:02:27Z You see, ever since I grew up, I have known the seamy side of things—trouble, losing father, and poverty. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z But the trial promises to reveal a detailed picture of Mr Rajaratnam at work as well as a close look at the seamier side of hedge fund trading. Raj Rajaratnam 2011-03-08T09:57:42Z You bring them back fully to this world, and it is their greatest privilege to be but half in it, and to have eyes blind to the seamy side. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z But May was acquainted with another aspect of the legend of Miss Piper's oratorio: a seamy side which the poor good lady did not even suspect. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z And even the revelations of the seamy side of human character, which thrust themselves upon the most purblind of editors, were blessings in disguise. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z It is ungenerous to forget all but the seamy side of the Priest's influence in Ireland. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Stop seeming to hush up this or that seamy allegation and welcome the Director of Public Prosecution's new burst of interest. PR man Simon Greenberg must bring new reality to News of the World 2011-01-16T00:06:07Z Until now Gletsos was better known for his roles in seamy TV soap operas. Greek mayor arrested after bulldozing toll booth barriers 2011-01-14T16:30:28Z Her struggle with life has been a hard one, she has seen the seamy side of human nature, and it has taught her to estimate all men at their worst. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z A woman has no business to know the seamy side of human nature.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z To him a master is not as other men are: he is a special type of humanity endowed with a permanent bias towards energetic respectability, and grotesquely ignorant of the seamy side of life. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z This argument could make prosecution more difficult by exposing a rather seamy relationship between large investors and the companies whose shares they buy and sell. DealBook: Muddy Waters of Research and Insider Trading 2010-12-01T20:57:00Z "People find it interesting that there is a seamy side to countries like Sweden, with financial and political corruption." Swedish thriller poised for blockbuster U.S. debut 2010-05-25T20:00:00Z Over the past 14 years they have forged one of the most intriguing partnerships in the seamy world of boxing. David Haye and his 'mastermind' prove a cut above the cut-throat 2010-04-01T23:10:00Z Vitale would be wise to stick to subjects he knows something about and perhaps direct his ire toward his own sport's seamier side very much on display since the start of the 2010 college season. At Final Four, coaches' integrity and graduation rates will be swept under rug 2010-03-31T04:00:00Z But to re-iterate, before “Driveway-gate,” before the parade of embarrassing phone messages and seamy soirees, when mental fortitude was Woods’ calling card, he failed to win 67 percent of the majors he entered. O?Neill: Masters will be tough test for Tiger?s return 2010-03-16T22:17:00Z But controlling a seamy story is like wrangling eels. Sports Business: Woods Blazes a New Trail for the Celebrity Apology 2010-02-18T21:21:00Z In a corner left by the sweep of the stairs a quartet of unkempt musicians in seamy tunics of beer-stained scarlet frogged with debilitated braid were grinding out ragtime. Sinister Street, vol. 2 His eyes looked on the seamy side of life, and saw with clearness when fixed on any one or anything but himself. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document And Gud saw that the soul spake the truth, for the face of both of these trusty souls were lined with seamy sorrow. The Book of Gud A runway of heavy planks, seamy and gray, built wide enough to have driven a team of horses upon, led up to the lowest door. The Auto Boys' Vacation Summarised, it is as follows: Boss Buckley, by tact and deep knowledge of the seamy side of the city, won himself a following of voters. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel My trips were limited, directed, and avoided the seamier side. The Huddlers Yes, he had often rehearsed the revelation, and doing so had come to the conclusion that even luck had its seamy side. In the Whirl of the Rising After herding for years with the worst criminals, Dostoievsky obtained an exceptional insight into the dark and seamy side of Russian life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" But the skiff was found dry and seamy. The Auto Boys' Mystery This volume is the result of fifteen years’ familiarity as police reporter with the seamy side of New York life. The Children of the Poor Badly as I may have finally wriggled through the task, seamy as may be the patchwork, the solace remains that no scrap of Harrison’s text lacks its own individual interest. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison You forget that I am not a baby—that I have knocked about a good deal and seen the seamy side of life. A Life Sentence A Novel You get to see the seamy side of a civilization, you know, when you live there yourself. You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did "I can't say that I like the seamy side of politics," he remarked, absently, as he performed a delicate operation without breaking the skin. Ancestors A Novel I had seen the seamy side of human nature often—too often. Francezka "Never before have we had the seamy side of glorious war so well depicted." The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War The old man made a queer noise in his throat, and pulled at his seamy cheek. The Deaves Affair I have seen enough of the seamy side of this much-boasted civilisation of ours to know that it is the most awful mockery that man ever insulted his Maker with. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror Of course Thackeray, in his day, was reputed a cynic, and supposed to have an over-partiality for studying the seamy side of things. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' The so-called "seamy side" of cities is not like that of flour-bags,—equal in extent and importance to the fair outer surface that meets the eye. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 The lawyer and the preacher, it is said, see the seamy side of life, and there is no need for wonder if, as has been reported, the lawyer often becomes a cynic. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching Yet patriotism had a seamy reverse side of political buncombe. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways And yet Hazlitt is no mean assassin of reputations; nor is his enmity as a rule more than the seamy side of friendship. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Judges are used to it, and act accordingly, deciding in most cases by a keen observation of the witnesses and an extensive knowlege of the seamy side of nature. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) I have dwelt thus long on the seamy side of our profession because there is a seamy side, and I believe it does good occasionally to discuss it with frankness. Commercialism and Journalism Bishops, we know, have opportunity of seeing the sad, and indeed the seamy side of clerical life. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly It enabled him to come into close contact with the seamy side of life; but it decreed that the friction should never leave a sore spot behind it. The Dominant Strain I refer to such problems only to remark that Crabbe must be consulted by those who wish to look upon the seamy side of the time which he describes. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Albeit a little on the seamy side of life, his rank and wealth were such that he himself attracted a good deal of attention, matronly eyes being turned in his direction with not unkindly purport. The Strollers Besides, you know, this woman is pure in herself, and from what she told me I understand that she has seen something of the seamy side of love lately—enough to inspire her with dread. Olive in Italy Of course, the caricaturing of pictures has its seamy as well as its smooth side. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 He slid out, wrathfully wagging his bill, and left a seamy, foamy track behind him, finally to end that play with a splendid long leap. Tales of Fishes Her eyes had not yet been opened to the seamy side of patriotism; to the sordid view of every great adventure that soon or late saddens the experienced and dispels the glamour of the dreamer. The Wild Geese The first nine satires present a wonderfully vivid picture of the seamy side of life at Rome at the end of the first century. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight There, indeed, we see the seamy side of war. A Padre in France But even war, as the philosopher remarked, has its seamy side, and the enemy did not appear. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Various seamy sides of society are shown up in pretty plain colors, and the author does not hesitate to draw conclusions from them, too strongly convincing to be questioned by his readers. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 The rock was very seamy, and abounded in water issuing from springs or percolating from the canal supplying water to the mill. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Pedro, to Bud’s knowledge, had been in numerous seamy affairs before, and had always reappeared, rather the worse for wear, but perfectly sound in all respects. The Free Range And Providence, albeit she shows a seamy side to poverty, still loves the man who laughs at hard luck. Winning the Wilderness She surveyed me unwinkingly and grave—a triumph shining from her eyes albeit there were seamy shadows etched into her white face. Desert Dust “As he grows older and sees more of the seamy side of life, he’ll get some of that nonsense knocked out of him.” Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour He had not allowed his undoubted powers of observation to be entirely concentrated upon the seamy side of his profession. The Motor Pirate We have seen too much of the seamy side of life to accept as Gospel truth the first story we hear. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The whole work, no smooth and neatly polished on the outside, had been turned the seamy side without, and the knots and flaws and ravelled threads had been exposed without pity. Vixen, Volume III. Every man—even a piano tuner—thinks his business leads him a dog's life, and that it shows him only the seamy side of the world. In Our Town She is to write a series of articles dealing with the seamy side of Grey Town life and her methods of reforming the riff-raff. Grey Town An Australian Story “Yes, indeed,” said Roger, “but Patty may as well get used to the seamy side of motoring, and learn to like it.” Patty's Summer Days Mr. Hardy wrote a few mournfully memorable lines on the seamy side of war. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Owing to the seamy character of the rock it was broken by blasting into comparatively small pieces requiring very little sledging. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Truly I was looking on life from the seamy side. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude And as he pictured this seamy side of the situation one could see the glow of pride gradually wilt from the myriads of swarthy upturned faces. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization And a small voice spoke to her also, and showed her the seamy side of this great deed of hers. An Australian Lassie Don't give the suckers a peek at the seamy side. Vigorish He said things and he did things which even a tolerant observer, hardened to the aspect of life's seamy side, might have felt impelled to call depraved, and yet Bill Jones himself was not depraved. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Not but that we see the seamy side too—the depths as well as the heights. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 What profanation to develop the seamy side of her nature! The Tyranny of the Dark In fact, he was familiar with this seamy side of Providence. The Flaw in the Sapphire "No, they're not parsons," said the shipping-master, as he turned to the man, the slightest trace of a smile on his seamy face. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea The glaring and the theatrical have often a ragged and seamy interior, and won’t bear “looking into.” My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year Lady Carse stood by the window, fretted at the thick seamy glass which prevented her seeing anything clearly. The Billow and the Rock Here was displayed shamelessly the seamy side of western settlement. A Daughter of the Middle Border "What a lot of houses there are here," Mr. Fetherbee remarked to his next neighbor, a seamy old reprobate with an evil eye. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book This was indeed the raw and seamy side of soldiering. Shelled by an Unseen Foe It quite often occurs that the bed-rock is seamy, with many small depressions. Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them He was very fluent and somewhat cynical, and turned the seamy side of his trade a little too clearly to view. On the Stairs Between ruler and subject, between husband and wife, between parent and child, comes the priest, gliding in like water through seamy walls, sapping their foundations. The Parables of Our Lord If this section of the British community had not remained true to anti-slavery ideas, the country would indeed have been turned "the seamy side without." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 It takes power to keep sweet in the home, where, if anywhere, the seamy side is apt to stick out. Quiet Talks on Power Georgiana196 leaned her head listlessly against the seamy old tree trunk behind her. Under the Country Sky The eulogy and the sarcasm may both be sincere enough; only it is pleasant, after puffing one's wares to the public, to glance at their seamy side in private. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) One of the world worldly, a moth that battened on the seamy side; the other far above the wickedness of men. Dross She could see through shifty dishonesty as well as if she had had three times her years and a wide knowledge of the seamy side of human nature. Mary Gray My dear Burroughs,—We are threatened with all kinds of penalties by Sir Jonathan Puttenham, the great contractor, over your seamy revelations. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions Why don't you give her just barely enough to live on, and let her try it out on the seamy side for the next six months? Quin Out of the uttermost end of things On the side of life that is seamier, There lies a land, so its poet sings, Whose people call it Bohemia. The Hippodrome "You and I, Howard," he said, "seem to have got on the seamy side of life lately." Dross Well, don't you fall down and forget it," said Alvord, "that the fellows on the seamy side won't see it your way. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain So your household names no rust nor seamy defacing Soil this day, that new morrow, the next to the last. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus He'd go through 'Frisco, and out at the far end, without so much as guessing the place had a seamy side to it. Wandering Heath No man who had not known the seamy side of life could have guessed the effect of Milton Savage's paragraph upon the minds of Lord and Lady Annesley-Seton. The Second Latchkey So that a farmer's life has its seamy side also. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 To inquire why the bare mention of the mother of a man's wife should excite merriment is to find oneself instantly deep in sociology—and in some of its seamiest strata too. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 Both had a wide knowledge of human nature, especially on its seamy side, based on a profound experience of life. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs I had lived among a rough, reckless set, had experienced enough of the seamy side of life to be somewhat careless. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune Let her see the seamy side,' he says, 'she's no fool. The Black Pearl He was not an honour to his profession, being, perhaps, as good or as bad a representative of the seamy side of State Churchism as there is to be found. Andrew Marvell The mountain ranges were bathed in sunshine and the scarred and seamy face of stern old Errigal seemed almost to smile. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland I had the money, and so there was no trouble about seeing the seamy side of life. Rod of the Lone Patrol Never before had I seen such an ill-favored, uninviting-looking fowl placed upon a table; its naturally white, smooth skin was now as seamy, black and arid-looking as the mouth of an ancient crater. A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories What a blessing that everyone has work in plenty, because in one's work one can derive a measure of happiness and satisfaction; it detracts one's thoughts from the seamy side of life just now. Woman's Endurance The seamy side of civilized life is not to him a subject for sympathetic mirth. Americans and Others This is but the seamy side of that spontaneous predilection, grounded in our deepest nature, by which we recognise beauty and nobleness at first sight, with immense refreshment and perfect certitude. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays After all, the actress sees the seamiest side of town; you won't mind leaving it? Secret Bread The recent exposure of grave political scandals in Sydney has attracted attention to the seamy side of the political life of the colonies. Town Life in Australia There were no photogravures then, nor hideous, scratchy, and seamy “processes,” such as almost make one despair of progress and of the future of humanity. Lost Leaders From another point of view, to those who love the country and make their home there, there cannot but be a seamy side to the picture. A Winter Tour in South Africa Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest I know the seamy side of the whole department. The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts He was cast in a lofty mould, and had a wide experience of the seamy side of life. The Torch and Other Tales With the seamy side of life constantly before him, he may find that his faith in human nature is being undermined. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers You see, we guys bump up against so much of the seamy side that we look upon everybody as guilty until proved innocent, which is hind-side-to. The Ragged Edge Numberless waterfalls, gushing from fissures in the hills, coursed down their seamy sides, looking like threads of silver as they sprang from point to point. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest The sordid treachery of politics was turned up to him, all its seamy side displayed. The Ramrodders A Novel And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character And it is not in the province of this article to turn to him the seamy side of that charming picture. Prose Fancies There is something stubborn and inflexible in you—the seamy side of your courage and steadfastness—which cannot readily enter into the feelings of others or put itself in their place. Red Pottage But there is the seamy side to Luchon, as to many things on earth: you go but a few paces from these opulent Allées and you find poverty. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees He had seen life on its seamy side. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy And then, certainly, his occupation had its seamy side. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Lucian Selincourt was her only brother and very dear to her, but there was no denying that his career had its seamy side. Nightfall Knowing nothing whatever of the seamy side of life, as it is seen inside those dismal houses with barred windows, Johnny thought he was being treated with much severity. The Thunder Bird She was a zealous servant, but she was glad sometimes to chasten these great ones of the land by insisting on the seamy side of their pleasures. The Marriage of William Ashe Passing on from the concert, Mrs. Cotton dealt with many subjects in a harangue that turned the seamy side of Cluhir to the sun, with the skill of a buyer of old clothes. Mount Music By contrast with the Mayor's seamy rotundity and Pond's powerful darkness, he looked, indeed, singularly boyish and fair. V. V.'s Eyes She brings before you the real life-drama of the streets, of the pot-house; she shows you the seamy side of life behind the scenes; she calls things by their right names. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory The seamy side of life has been laid bare to me. The Jericho Road Perhaps because, having become a workman, I saw our town life only from the seamy side, it was my lot almost every day to make discoveries which reduced me almost to despair. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories As a picture of the seamy side of human life—of its vices and its weaknesses at least—it is unrivalled. Some Private Views "Well, of course, dear, you've always seen the seamy side of me," said Meadows, with the slightest change of tone and a laugh. A Great Success Good friend, it is with deep regret I note The latest, strangest turning of your coat; Though any way you wear that mental clout The seamy side seems always to be out. Black Beetles in Amber But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise. Elizabethan Sea Dogs When he began his major fiction at the age of thirty-seven he had seen much more of the seamy side of existence than had Dickens when he set up for author. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities And even the revelations of the seamy side of human character which thrust themselves upon the most purblind of editors were blessings in disguise. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The other old man now consisted of a newspaper, two seamy hands and a pair of grey legs. The Pretty Lady So fine were his emotional sensibilities that it was almost more than he could endure to hear—as he was compelled to day after day—the seamy, inharmonious, sordid, and criminal side of life. Analyzing Character "Things," I explained, "that don't want quite so much knowledge of the seamy side of life?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 Perhaps he knew from his own seamy experience of life what such things developed into. The Moon Rock The seamy side of Maori life, as of all savage life, was patent to the most unimaginative observer. The Long White Cloud In the meantime Grandma Thorndyke was turning Virginia inside out like a stocking, and looking for the seamy side. Vandemark's Folly There were also abundant social problems awakened by the saloons and gambling dens, and by the seamy side of politics. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia It has its seamy side, however, and little as people want to believe it, it is not merely the literary branch of the work. The Torch Bearer A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement Greenish tints assured us that vegetation was not quite so seamy upon these hills as in the desert they skirted, which only showed at intervals a few coarse plants, scarcely deserving the name. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay When the seamy side of man's behavior is scrutinized by science, it cannot be other than grim and distressing to the reader. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment It is unfamiliar for the reason that it is seamy and uninviting. With the Allies Before his enfeebled vision rose the seamy, dreary side of life, and yet back of the lament of this ancient pessimist is revealed a man of high ideals, impelled by a spirit of scientific thoroughness. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism Her knowledge of the seamy side of life was not exhaustive. The Three Brontës He could discover no tracks; he began to fear the night would foil him, when at last luck guided his aimless footsteps to a slide of loose rock banked against a seamy ledge. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories He was getting the other, the seamy side of things, at last with a vengeance. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Where Crabbe is represented, not unfairly, as dwelling mainly on the seamy side of peasant and village life, such passages as the above are not to be overlooked. English Men of Letters: Crabbe This work was excavation in open, seamy rock, carried on for several weeks under about 45 pounds pressure. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Instead of that he's got a first-rate practice on the seamy side, and every blackguard with half a case takes it straight to Bennett Addenbrooke. The Amateur Cracksman Here and there we find evidence — for instance, in the first two sonnets—that he was not blind to its seamy side. Poems She knew nothing of the seamy side of his hard life. The Mucker It was a large specimen of the breed, in colour rich dun, though disfigured at present by splotches of mud about his seamy sides. The Mayor of Casterbridge Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history? The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf There is the fatally seamy side of be-praised Militarism, and there Feminism has a triumphant argument. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene At the same time and in the same publication Lincoln Steffens was exposing the seamy side of municipal affairs in "The Shame of the Cities." The United States Since the Civil War I told her of the seamy side of the gown that cloaks licentiousness and of the sorrows and bitterness of the ashes of burned out love. City of Endless Night From the average commercial manager's point of view there is a question about that seamy kind of thing getting over with the playgoer. Star-Dust The combers came up behind her, foaming and glistening blue and green, with seamy white streaks on their hollow breasts, and broke about her with a roar. Vane of the Timberlands The old fellow passed his seamy hand over his eyes without concealment. The Gentleman from Indiana "Suppose you come to see the seamy side of me—as you do of everybody?" The Coryston Family A Novel Lady Cantourne was of the world worldly; and because of that, because the finest material has a seamy side, and the highest walks in life have the hardiest weeds, she knew what love should be. With Edged Tools His very gloves came from a little shop in Newmarket, where only the seamiest and clumsiest of hand-coverings are provided, and horn buttons are a sine qua non. The Isle of Unrest For after you have pared off the husk of the restorer, or bled in your alembic the very juices the craftsman conjured withal, you come down to the seamy wood, and Art is gone. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett The seamy side of existence had always been carefully hidden from his eyes. From One Generation to Another "I don't invent seamy sides—where none exist," he said, looking peremptorily into her eyes. The Coryston Family A Novel Below this were strata of trachitic breccia and augite; the formation was then seamy to an unknown depth. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 The glamour of the actor's life was upon her; the seamy side of it forgotten—its unworthy rivalries and bickerings, the slangings and prolonged weariness of rehearsals, its many disappointments, heart-burnings, and sordid shifts. The Far Horizon From his fifteenth year, Thor had seen the seamy side of life, had lived, grown and developed among men. T. Haviland Hicks Senior Suddenly life presented to Lady Holme its seamy side; Fate attacking her in her woman's vanity, her egoism, even in her love. The Woman with the Fan Thereupon is drawn a vivid and vigorous picture of the seamy side of the social life of the times. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] Born to good conditions--Mr. Blaine sprang from aristocratic forebears--each knew by early albeit brief experience the seamy side of life; as each, like Clay, nursed a consuming passion for the presidency. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Born to good conditions—Mr. Blaine sprang from aristocratic forebears—each knew by early albeit brief experience the seamy side of life; as each, like Clay, nursed a consuming passion for the presidency. Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography It is the necessary imperfection, the seamy side. Manners and Social Usages Did you ever see what miserable daubs the scenes look, and how seamy it all is when the pitiless sunshine comes in? Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts The searching light that comes in will show a great many seamy places in the cloth that looks very sound when it is inspected in the twilight. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Clarence Farnsworth was, as yet, too green to know that, too often, the man who has seen much of the world has seen only its seamy and worthless side. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand Sometimes at our feet, beneath the seamy fissures of a hillside, or far removed by sweep of meadow, lay the fluctuant mass we call the sea. In and out of Three Normady Inns In spite of his preoccupation with the seamy side of human nature, he is in reality a bookish poet, and most of his work—though not the best part of it—smells of the lamp. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century His settled habit of dragging to light the seamy side of human nature was sure to fall on this illustration of it as congenial food. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes After an excellent education he studied law, and was for some years a police magistrate, in which position he increased his large knowledge of the seamy side of life. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived He early became acquainted with the seamy as well as the brilliant side of courtly life; for in 1359 he was in the campaign in France and was taken prisoner. A History of English Literature As I left the boat I had a little experience of the seamy side of Southern travel; nothing to be angry about, perhaps, but annoying, nevertheless, on a hot day. A Florida Sketch-Book His gloves are so large and seamy as to make it extremely difficult to grasp the bridle, and quite impossible to buckle a strap. The Sowers I see enough of the seamy side of it, goodness knows. The Postmaster's Daughter Then there is the official who constantly sees the seamy side of industrial life and who concludes--we can scarcely blame him--that "it would be well if women were excluded entirely from factory life." Mobilizing Woman-Power In short, Barrett enlarged his knowledge of the seamy side of things considerably in the mile of road which had to be traversed before St Austin's appeared in sight. The Pothunters His clothes were seamy and worn, and his physical proportions had shrunk so much that the shabby garments seemed a world too wide for him. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales The very qualities which they had mutually admired were now seen on their seamy side. The Earth Trembled The truth is that every civilisation has a seamy side, which it is easy to expose and to denounce. Medieval Europe I had never seen anything of a seamy side to Vicky's character; but then, I didn't know her so very well, and the man was dead, and who else could have killed him? Vicky Van In dealing with the seamy side of life men come to believe that it is all stitches. In Kedar's Tents Oh, if they could only see the seamy side of it. Press Cuttings What queer thoughts a fellow has when within half an inch of the seamy side of life! Miss Lou That generous persons had a seamy side; that dark and villainous characters had much to be urged in excuse for their misdeeds. The Upton Letters "I suppose it's the seamy side of marriage!" said Howard. Watersprings He wore a suit of black, which had for several years been his reserve attire, till it grew too seamy for use on Sundays. A Life's Morning If they could only see the seamy side of General Sandstones uniform, where his flask rubs agen the buckle of his braces, theyll tell him he ought to get a new one. Press Cuttings All his characteristics had turned out, as it were, the seamy side; and Nancy with difficulty preserved her patience as he showed point after point of perverted disposition. In the Year of Jubilee He pushed in a kind of dream; the wind was with them, and it was comparatively easy work; but the ice was rough, and too hard, and there were seamy cracks to be avoided. Maurice Guest Regardless of the glaring sunshine of New Year morning, groups of people were dotted along the rail, staring up at the flat top and seamy face of cloud-capped Table Mountain. On the Firing Line Mr. Bristow had perforce seen a good deal of the seamy side of politics, and of the extent of the unscrupulousness with which powerful influence was brought to bear to shield offenders. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Nevertheless he has a vigilant eye on them always, and that, too, rather cynically, like a man who knows the world well from its seamy side. Man and Superman I have no patience with those people who are always looking on the seamy side. Their Pilgrimage She would see that Paris, too, has a seamy side if you live there. A Changed Man; and other tales She knew of life's seamy side as a theory; she could not grasp it as a fact. Howards End Patriots, revolutionists, who on the whole would serve human progress, have yet, as have we all, dark spots and seamy sides. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings She knew of life's seamy side as a theory; she could not grasp it as a fact.� Howards End I have seen a good deal of the seamy side this last week. A Room with a View Which latter, also at first hand, shows us the seamy side. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 Rugged practical Letters, shadowing out to us, unconsciously oftenest, and like a very mirror, the splendid and the sordid, the seamy side and the smooth, of Life at Cirey, in her experience of it. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 He continued to sneer and chuckle, and I reflected that perhaps he was right, that the seamy side of the world was what he depicted it. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels But the side not so seamy of this picture of school life is the extraordinary power of honour among boys. Adventures Among Books Because, Carley—you know how you hate the—the seamy side of things. The Call of the Canyon I don't see why it should be the weak and sickly and seamy side of people that grips me most, but it is. Secret Places of the Heart All the seamy side of things, all the secret reasons and rotten motives and bribery and blackmail they call politics. The Man Who Knew Too Much Still, in these twenty years I have seen a great deal of the seamy side of the world. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life In such a manner, turning the seamy side outwards, a modern Socrates might describe the evils of married and domestic life. Phaedrus He spoke with a cheerful inflection of tone, as if the fact designated was one that would please her; and his swarthy, seamy face expanded into a good-humored, meaning smile. The Call of the Canyon He shows us the seamy side: the intrigues, domestic and political; the needy Irish adventurer with the Prince, a person whom Scott had not studied. Essays in Little They had the appearance of men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat—seamy on both sides. Options A hard life in the seamy places of the world had made him something of a cynic. The Grey Room One detail regarding those latter days of our commission is perhaps worthy of record as throwing light on a seamy side of American life. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 One can hardly believe that there is a seamy side when one descends from his travelling observatory a little later, and stands on Westminster Bridge, or walks along the Thames Embankment. Penelope's English Experiences Alluring as the pirate’s profession is, we must not forget that it had a seamy side, and was by no means all rum and pieces-of-eight. Essays in Little Joe was awakened by the merry chirp of a chipmunk that every morning ran along the seamy side of the opposite wall of the gorge. The Spirit of the Border The annihilation of the unfit is the seamy side, though the most real side, of natural selection. The Story of Evolution They had lived long, had seen the seamy side of public affairs, and had lost their illusions. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 |
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