| 单词 | sordid |
| 例句 | If you had hate, then you could see suffering—and cause it—and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Padva continues on unfazed, glossing over only the most sordid of details that Widget can read in the sparkle of her eyes even if she does not speak them aloud. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Oh my God,” he says, because really, the last person Zahra needs to be concerned about leaking sordid details is Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There was something sordid about the tumbled sheets, the sprawling blankets and the thumped pillows, and that bedside table dusty with powder, spilt scent, and melting liquid rouge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His day to day on the estate consisted of conducting sordid parties in the big house and putting his slaves to bleak amusements, forcing them to serve as his victims in Cora’s stead. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I learned the sordid inner workings of the royal court in Modeg from a ... courtesan. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Children’s Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There are some things she's better off not knowing, and the sordid details surrounding that lock-picking set is one of them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I lied, made stuff up, told him all the sordid things he wanted to hear. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z How sordid it all was, that she was here with a stranger who already knew she would stay. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z People always thought they wanted the sordid details, Joaquin thought, until they actually had them. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My long, sordid history with the White Noise included several episodes of fainting, vomiting, and memory loss, not to mention my most recent experience with bleeding profusely out of my eyes and nose. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it would be a healthy diversion: inhaling sugar while listening to someone’s sordid past. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Commons lawn stretched out wide and desolate like some Napoleonic battlefield: churned, sordid, roiled with footprints. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the an-imals’ backs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z With all the visitors engaged in playtime pursuits, however, Apples to Apples is the only game left on the shelf, and Mackenzie grabs it, not knowing the sordid history. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When Mitraillette turned up to bring me my breakfast ration of bread and onions and their dreadful pretend coffee, I blurted out the whole sordid story. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When he went to bed alone, he dodged flak over Bologna again in a dream, with Aarfy hanging over his shoulder abominably in the plane with a bloated sordid leer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The press later described the killings as being as “dark and sordid as any murder story of the century” and the “bloodiest chapter in American crime history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This, as Elizabeth later considered it, was the first in the sordid series of mistakes which was to cause her to fall so low. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They had before them the basest of crimes, a crime made worse than sordid by the fact that they were dealing with a monster, a man without morals. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z To counter the sordid image created by Burns and the old school of venal detectives, Hoover adopted the approach of Progressive thinkers who advocated for ruthlessly efficient systems of management. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mammachi wrote to him regularly, with detailed descriptions of her sordid squabbles with her husband and her worries about Ammu’s future. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Powerful angels, safe in heaven! they smile when sordid souls triumph, and feeble ones weep over their destruction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Above all he remembered his continuous hunger, and the fierce sordid battles at mealtimes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Unlike Sherlock Holmes, though, Burns had rigged juries, and allegedly kidnapped a suspect, and he routinely used the sordid techniques of imperial spies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But even this was not enough for Blanca, who found the apartment sordid, dark, and narrow and the building crowded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve found no incriminating emails, no sordid pictures or passionate letters. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever I had learnt, had so slipped away from me in the sordid cares of my life from day to night, that now, when I was examined about what I knew, I knew nothing. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As I stood there the sordid implications of politics flashed through my mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And Mom—well, Mom has her own sordid history with the bottle; we’re not even allowed to have root beer around the lady. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, the allegations against him continue to capture our national attention because so much of the story is strange and sordid. Woody Allen is just the beginning: Why we can’t hide from the truth anymore 2014-02-11T00:00:00Z There is, however, much to be learned from the sordid, winding, thwarted path to Epstein’s eventual arrest on sex trafficking charges in July 2019. 'It's outrageous': inside an infuriating Netflix series on Jeffrey Epstein 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Think what you want about this whole sordid, sad situation. Don’t Take It Out on Elmo 2012-11-21T12:21:54Z But let us be charitable and attribute no such sordid motive to him. Technology is a double-edged sword 2012-12-23T00:07:19Z “But ‘Trump and His Generals’ raises … important questions about the outlandish and sordid tale.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z While we're all waiting for the memes, here are some tweets responding to the sordid tale's success: Fifty shades of grey is trending! Fifty Shades of Grey: a conversation with Twitter 2012-07-10T17:37:00Z Not that Magazine Wars is a lemon – but is its subject matter entirely worthy of the resources brought to bear in relating what is, essentially, a sordid story of opportunism and excess? Paper Giants: Magazine Wars - TV review 2013-06-02T15:04:00Z But her Polly seems utterly unsoiled by her sordid upbringing: Ms. Osnes often gives the impression that she has wandered in from a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Theater Review: Atlantic Theater’s Decadent, Decorous ‘Threepenny Opera’ 2014-04-08T02:00:15Z Push past the local color, though, as Mr. Linklater does, and this starts to look like what it was: a sordid, bleak tale about two lonely people drawn to each other like colliding planets. Movie Review: ?Bernie? With Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine 2012-04-26T21:53:23Z It’s a sordid life Lucy pursues in Los Angeles, but she is the one pursuing it. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The town was transfixed; everyone, it seemed, wanted in on the unflappable grifter’s sordid saga. True Life: I Got Conned by Anna Delvey 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z He relates the often sordid tales of addiction and neglect with radical love and honesty. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The result is sordid, flimsy Holocaust kitsch, fanatical chic, with all the actual political substance of a designer Che T-shirt. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z But many disagreed, including Mark Twain, who called JM Barrie's story "a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age". Peter Pan – a YouTube roundup 2012-12-05T16:18:33Z Their lives are more dramatic and often times sordid than the facade they try to maintain, but they stay close friends. Vanessa Williams turns "Desperate" for ABC 2010-05-18T22:19:00Z But she said she didn’t regret the affair, and instead painted the whole sordid scandal as a perhaps necessary stage in Mr. Edwards’s “process” of self actualization. TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z The fact that E! is known for sordid celebrity antics and other ratings-chasers doesn’t help. The forgotten history of Bruce Jenner: How the all-American hero of the 1970s ended up here 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “I hope that this sordid period is a learning lesson for everyone, including the Carnegie Library,” Bicket said. Ex-librarian, bookseller get home detention in library theft 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z In subsequent episodes, the series settles down to the sordid business of undercover investigations and sting operations and becomes more interesting. Television Review: Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Tveit in ‘Graceland’ on USA 2013-06-05T22:10:10Z But his idealism comes to a sordid end. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z What undisclosed threat or sordid development has arisen? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I spent a week evading current events. Here’s what I learned. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “He has consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others,” prosecutors wrote. Weinstein's prison sentence should reflect 'lifetime of abuse': prosecutors 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z A thousand regulations and prohibitions take the place of law, while justice is destroyed by an insistent appeal to the most sordid, cruel and mean-spirited elements in human nature. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z This kind of sordid and bizarre behaviour was becoming normal and comforting in the barmy land of Beat-Herder. Beat-Herder Festival diary: Nile Rodgers rocks the Ribble valley 2013-07-17T12:24:23Z When Gatsby declares that his family traditionally sends its sons to study at Oxford, the reader suspects he is simply spinning a glamorous backstory to disguise some sordid criminal reality. Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z So it proved, in its own sordid fashion. Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z What’s clear here is a particularly sordid kind of poetic justice. Perspective | Trump once wanted the National Enquirer to win a Pulitzer. Now it may prove his downfall. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Happily, Barrie Kosky excludes all this sordid history from his production. Review: 'A Silent Woman' With a Big Voice 2010-07-27T11:30:00Z Here it is, Washington in all its splendid, sordid glory: the pols, the pundits, the Porsches. Books of The Times: ‘This Town,’ by Mark Leibovich, skewers Washington’s insiders. 2013-07-07T21:54:32Z The Haunting of Sharon Tate, meanwhile, is a sordid fiction starring singer Hilary Duff, in which Tate dreams of being stalked by a man called Charlie and has premonitions of her own murder. Behind the bloodshed: the chilling untold stories about Charles Manson 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z But, then, answering that gets us to a sordid story that isn’t brought up in polite company at high-tech conferences — and isn’t a reason to feel so optimistic about the economy. Will Walmart eat L.A.? 2012-06-26T19:39:00Z Both of them are get giggly just retelling the story, like sisters sharing a sordid bit of gossip. Icona Pop put some punk spirit into dance music 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Ullens’s death was a sordid end to a life that had seemed like a fairy tale, or at least a fairy tale of the age of global capitalism. Myriam Ullens, Philanthropic Baroness With a Disputed Fortune, Dies at 70 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z In this telling, there are no heroes and, ultimately, no justice, but the whole sordid saga gets lightly burnished by its epic treatment, anyway. “Duets”: TV’s cheesiest “American Idol” ripoff 2012-05-31T14:58:00Z The sordid past and the current criminal activities do not look good for the Dimases as possible suspects in Tim's death. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z As Caroline heals and her sordid back story dribbles into view, she and Lank begin to eye each other romantically while Sly woos a reluctant Chelle to the strains of Motown hits. It’s the 1960s, baby. Who do you love? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z If anything, the pristine gleam of the venue is at odds with the band: somewhere visibly broken, ingrained with the filth of ages, might suit their sordid songs better. The Tiger Lillies ? review 2011-07-21T17:17:28Z “On other days I shrug off this high moral tone. Am I not, au fond, merely a dealer in sordid gossip?” Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Though the tale grows more sordid, Davee approaches it as a phenomenon of extreme human experience erupting against a fragile, frontier civility. 'How the Fire Fell': Oregon family descends into madness 2012-01-26T21:14:04Z There were so many sordid twists that it was more farcical than shocking, making it seem that the original incident needed to be pumped up in order to be truly horrifying. A Ballet Scandal Gets the ‘Special Victims Unit’ Treatment 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z What if the facts of our daughter’s adoption were so sordid we couldn’t bear them? Modern Love: Untying a Birth Mother’s Hands - Modern Love 2012-08-02T20:18:22Z Kuang’s “Yellowface” takes a different approach: Instead of hiding the facts, she puts her sordid truth under a glass dome and shines a spotlight over it. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z As the book moves methodically through rock’s often sordid history, patterns begin to develop, as the layers of rock star template are unpeeled, revealing both its evolution and eventual de-evolution. Whereforeart thou, rock gods? 'Uncommon People' has the answer 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The characters all work for a television show that creates a syrupy narrative out of sordid and gritty real life, and they do that by consciously fudging the distinction between truth and fiction. From the Duggars to the Bachelorettes, we’ve made our cynical TV beds — and this damning critique of our “reality” obsession couldn’t come at a better time 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Fame being fame, the whole sordid mess became Mr. Polanski’s story, not hers. Books of The Times: In ‘The Girl,’ Samantha Geimer Revisits the Polanski Case 2013-09-01T22:04:58Z In what is essentially the tale of a sordid road trip, Nabokov has Humbert traveling the country in possession of his illicit love interest. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The tale — from charged studio visits to nasty exchanges at the Cedar Bar — has its own sad, sordid, unsurprising truth. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z However, she omits an underlying motive for that sordid episode, namely anti-Communism. Does Chamberlain’s Appeasement Contain Lessons for Today? 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Potsdamer Strasse, one of the busiest streets in Berlin before World War II, has long been known for its abundance of streetwalkers, sordid sex shops and strip clubs. Five Places to Go in Berlin 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z But perhaps my favorite “subway read” to date is James Ellroy’s “L.A. Confidential,” which is even more sprawling, sordid and satisfying than its film adaptation. Transportive Reading for Underground Transportation 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The ramshackle walls and surroundings of an abandoned hacienda-style house are plastered with printed blowups of sordid Twitter feeds that the artist scavenged for tales of banal indulgences in sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In yet another show of Ronson’s eclectic contacts list, venerated author Michael Chabon contributed lyrics throughout the record, and his work infuses Ronson’s compositions with a sort of sordid California ennui. Review: Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Special' is at the Mercy of His Collaborators 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z He added, “This whole sordid affair has demonstrated the true consequences of what happens when vulnerability collides with power.” Report: British BBC star implicated in 200 cases of child sex abuse 2013-01-12T03:33:49Z That's just a small sampling of the entertaining and sordid anecdotes that can be found in archives devoted to Gilded Age show business. Joe Exotic channels the spirit of America’s 19th-century tiger kings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z We learn that Jimmy McGill’s past was a tad more sordid than previously known. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Help a Nacho Out 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Cue sordid tales of her boudoir, a tour of her Isle of Wight love nest, and an examination of the royal knickers. TV highlights – 09/05/2013 2013-05-09T05:59:01Z The result is as straightforward an account of the sordid tedium of gang life as exists anywhere. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z We do not, of course, yet know all the sordid details of our recent past. Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain - review 2012-11-23T08:00:01Z Hill’s death was only the beginning of the story, though, and Thompson covers every twist, turn and dark secret of the sordid tale. Serial: What to Watch, Hear and Read If You're Obsessed with the Podcast 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z She sometimes chafed at the tendency of commentators to fixate on the more sordid personal details in her books, so much so that they never saw the politics at stake. Hazel Rowley obituary 2011-03-13T18:28:12Z I thought if I told someone I was interested in about my sordid shameful dirty secrets that she’d be horrified and run screaming away from me. I wrote my way to true love 2013-02-14T01:00:00Z In a column Monday for Slate.com, Christopher Hitchens wrote that the movie "perpetrates a gross falsification of history," applying "Vaseline" to the lens to hide the more sordid truths of the royals and appeasement. Questions of truth circle Oscar favorites 2011-01-26T12:16:04Z But Stevenson has also created a new dynamic of collection and dispersal to help revivify memory of the state’s ugly and sordid past. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The twisted, true story of Andrew Cunanan’s 1997 killing spree exists in whatever dark sliver of cultural space remains between lurid and sordid. Review | FX’s ‘Assassination of Gianni Versace’ reaches for beauty but can’t find meaning 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The details are sad, macabre and sordid enough to have inspired a movie titled “Grand Theft Parsons.” Enough About Gram Parsons’s Death. It’s Time to Celebrate His Music. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Some photographers and community members found his methods exploitive and thought his sometimes sordid images were unfair to the multifaceted Bronx. Chris Arnade photographs the ‘back-row kids.’ He knew they could elect Trump. 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Thomas suggests that even after graduating from law school — and with a seductive big-city job dangling before her — she yearns for Neptune and its sordid intrigues. Movie Review: ‘Veronica Mars’ Returns, on the Big Screen This Time 2014-03-13T22:07:42Z It means “disreputable or sordid,” such as “a neighborhood to which people go in search of illegal drugs.” Gene Weingarten: You news, you lose Anyway, since boy has remet girl, things will proceed apace, and, despite their sordid start, it looks as if Bela might teach Heléna to love again. Theater Review: Nina Arianda Stars in ‘Tales From Red Vienna’ 2014-03-19T02:00:02Z Another day, another sordid story from inside the church of Scientology: Today, a report in the L.A. Scientology head David Miscavige allegedly spied on his own father, told P.I. to let hm die 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Despite its transparently ridiculous dogma and sordid history of racism and murder and extremely unorthodox marital practices, Mormonism has come to thrive, thanks primarily to its ability to market and rapidly reinvent itself. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z Most of them dwelt in rancorous restlessness, sank into suave or sordid deceit, and often came to believe that a marriage could be ended by means more final and fatal than divorce. Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z And yet despite these sordid details, Eileen looks utterly enchanted by the movie business. ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 2: Rinse and Repeat 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The men are well aware of Nick’s sordid, slut-shamey past, and they are not impressed. 'The Bachelorette' Recap: Doug E. Fresh, NYC and the Return of Nick V. 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Since the sordid Epstein saga began unspooling, years ago, Maxwell has continued to be one of its more inscrutable characters. Perspective | Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly turned an intuitive female bond into a tool for abuse 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s a fine line between censorship and acknowledgment, but a tendency to gloss over and ignore this sordid past of ours that continues to afflict us, from the Great Depression to the coronavirus era. The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z He steeped himself in the sordid and the refined, the red-light bars and the villas, the decadence and the apprehension of a city whose freewheeling spirit was about to be extinguished by Nazi terror. Footsteps : Looking for Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin 2013-04-12T19:04:41Z The key requirement, it seems, to fully comprehending the sordid tale of Jeffrey Epstein is the ability to remain interested even when it becomes apparent that the whole story cannot be told. Review | Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein docuseries honors his victims and their stories, but the creep still gets away 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z He felt hurt at being dragged into such a sordid tale; she felt ashamed of her part in it. It's time for you to talk 2011-08-12T23:06:39Z The inmate said that Mr. Pelosi had confessed to him, and as proof of this, presented a copy of Muscle & Fitness Magazine in which he’d inscribed the sordid details. In Hamptons, Ammon Twins Put Horror in Perspective 2012-11-14T22:17:45Z The narrative builds a colossal sense of menace as they both wander raggedly from homeless shelter to sordid wastelands where the drunkards roll. Waterline by Ross Raisin ? review 2011-07-13T09:05:02Z What do you like about this sordid and complicated person? ArtsBeat: Emmy Nominees: Vera Farmiga of ‘Bates Motel’ 2013-07-18T15:57:15Z Her sassy, improvised dialogue and her vulnerability touched audiences and critics, many of whom were desperate to find a glint of redeeming light in a relentlessly sordid film. Holly Woodlawn, Transgender Star of 1970s Underground Films, Dies at 69 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z In this telling, there are no heroes and, ultimately, no justice, but the whole sordid saga gets lightly burnished by its epic treatment anyway. “Hatfields & McCoys”: No heroes, no humor 2012-05-29T16:45:00Z The stakes are higher, the people are angry, and Washington is sordid. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z He travelled to tournaments on slow trains because he could not afford to fly and slept in sordid flophouses miles from the courses. Birdies, bribes and bulldozers 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The daughter of alcoholics, she grew up in an often violent home, and was schooled from a very early age in the keeping of sordid family secrets. A Mother’s Pain, a Daughter’s Addiction 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z There were lots of exclamation marks and no sordid scandals. Donny Osmond: Design icon 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z America, of course, has a long, sordid history of downzoning to keep poor and racially diverse populations out of more prosperous, predominantly white neighborhoods. Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The few who made it, like Goldsmith or that industrious novelist, anthologist, editor and translator, Tobias Smollett, might naturally feel ashamed of their sordid pasts. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Recurring themes include the sordid marriage of madness and art, the often unseen presence of practical magic in everyday life, and the ways in which history can glue together a family and a community. Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z There is also Fritz Tschanz, an immigrant Jesuit priest who knows so much and has heard so many sordid confessions over the years that his world-weariness has paralyzed him. Books Of The Times: Noir in Sunny Mexico, Mart?n Solares?s ?Black Minutes? 2010-05-31T23:37:00Z “I don’t think I’m ever going to drink alcohol,” she said finally, before jetting off to a more intriguing activity than learning about my sordid past. Motherlode Blog: ‘Mommies Don’t Drink’ (Anymore) 2013-04-17T13:00:37Z The controversy behind the making and releasing of Margaret, a sordid tale of punishing litigation between producers, distributors and directors that drags on even today, undeniably added to the film’s mystique. One More for the Road: Mary Pols? Top 10 Films of 2011 2011-12-30T14:20:36Z "Until now, his would have been: 'Bill Cosby, who ...' followed by something about the Huxtables and being America's Dad. Now I think that sentence will continue with ... this sad, sordid history now unfolding." Bill Cosby is in role of outcast after sexual assault allegations 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “These allegations are nothing more than the continuation of a sordid shakedown campaign that began on social media and now attempts to manipulate the press and misuse the justice system.” Lawyer Seeks Criminal Investigation of T.I. and Tiny on Behalf of Multiple Women 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Anyone who has read a lot of this genre in recent years can't help but brace herself for the sordid details of a downward spiral. 'Wild': blisters and redemption on the Pacific Crest Trail 2012-03-14T19:57:04Z Don’t expect some kind of Larry Clark rumination on the sordid extremes of youth, though. Actor, Writer, Director, Nobody 2011-03-09T23:32:28Z The deeper he digs into the sordid tale, the more it threatens his mental well-being. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Magicians’ and ‘Zombieland’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Once more, the director Oliver Stone turns to the sordid underbelly of governance. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sharp Objects’ and ‘Snowden’ 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z This is the story of how looted objects and sordid motives are purified for public consumption. ‘Dancing with the Tiger’: a whirling tale of art and its sometimes sordid acquisition 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The first party is the sordid little gathering in the flat of Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan's mistress, when Tom breaks Myrtle's nose for merely mentioning his wife Daisy's name. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z If the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice — and sanity — it is entirely possible that this book will serve as an unintentional epitaph for this sad, sordid, brilliant, haunting game. Review, ‘Football: Great Writing about the National Sport,’ edited by John Schulian That sordid childhood history Don desperately tried to hide? 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Back in Style 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Despite its often grisly subject matter, Ms. Keily said she wanted to avoid whetting the public’s appetite for sordid details, and aimed instead to shed light on the development of detective work. ‘Black Museum’ Emerges From Britain’s Shadows 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z If the media had used the same investigative skills that they are using on this sordid sex affair, they would have found out that Petraeus was not what he seemed to be. Oliver Stone tackles modern history in new series 2012-11-21T21:52:08Z The episodes are edited to highlight their paper-thin bravado, but even so, the camera can’t disguise an unsettling desperation, a visible yearning to make all those sordid couplings with strangers somehow pay off. Television Review: Gross? Maybe. But It Got Me on TV, Right? 2011-04-06T18:11:34Z Rather than reflecting on such somber and sordid matters, however, the American political establishment together with ambitious members of the country’s intelligentsia found it so much more expedient simply to move on. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Part of the book’s appeal was its apparent realism about the sordid details of international espionage. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z It begins with the disappearance in Thailand of two 18-year-old English women, soon discovered dead in sordid circumstances. Review | Best audiobooks to get you to winter’s end 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The whole sordid business, as it so often does when Mahmood is involved, stinks. How the Sun on Sunday spent thousands to entrap Tulisa 2013-06-12T13:01:00Z In fact, even a brief scan through Stock's songbook reveals all kinds of sordid grubbiness. Ban this filth! 2010-08-12T12:52:00Z Discussing the composition of “them,” in an author’s note, Oates writes that she deliberately understated the “sordid and shocking events of slum life” in the novel for fear that “too much reality would become unbearable.” Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z And a 2011 documentary, “Limelight,” offered a kaleidoscopic look back to that sordid netherworld, but Mr. Gatien was not exactly effusive in the film. Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Some friends considered the account intrusive; in letters to friends, Muriel Spark accused Bayley of “muckraking” and writing a “sordid” account. Writer John Bayley, Iris Murdoch's widower, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z At points, the narratives are so sordid and the pair so dislikeable that readers might struggle to believe they were simultaneously creating clothes filled with drama and élan. Two butterflies, one wheel 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z On paper it’s pretty sordid, but Puccini’s gorgeous music elevates the experience to something sublime. Why Seattle Opera’s ‘Tosca’ is worth staying indoors for 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The narrator of this Chilean novel is haunted by a dark episode in her country’s past: In 1984, a torturer for the secret police exposed the sordid workings of the Pinochet regime. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Towne found himself embroiled in sordid divorce proceedings; Evans was dogged by drug and financial scandals; Nicholson took too many roles just for the money. My Sister, My Daughter: Behind the Scenes of a Great American Film 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z But while the kidnapping is the movie’s main event, it is only part of a story that is, by turns, a sordid, desperate and anguished tragedy about money. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z But Shrady’s deftly manipulated bronze in Virginia regales us with something sordid. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z As with “Girls,” the show views one’s early 20s as an opportunity to make gallingly egregious errors, as reckless and sordid a phase as humanly possible. Review | In HBO’s sordid but watchable ‘Industry,’ the world now belongs to the zuppies 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z The couple denied any instances of nonconsensual sex and their representatives called the claims “a sordid shakedown campaign.” T.I. and Tiny Will Not Be Charged in Los Angeles Sexual Assault Investigation 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The poem's sleepless "you" watches "The thousand sordid images / Of which your soul was constituted; They flickered against the ceiling". John Mullan's 10 of the best 2012-02-10T22:55:07Z The setting may be East Texas but we’re essentially in Elmore Leonard country, where sordid crime, snappy dialogue and regional atmosphere meet. Review: In ‘Hap and Leonard’ Best Friends Get a Lucrative Job Offer 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The actual deed is reported with such lightly amused aplomb that what could come over as sordid seems like a harmless diversion. A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “We altered the color because it needed to be richer and darker … more sordid and heavily, heavily stained.” Making a Mess Off Broadway 2010-06-07T00:18:00Z Here, those events constitute a murky tale of betrayal, murder, deviant behavior, sordid family interactions and the appropriation of someone else’s story by a craven writer looking to make a buck. Review | Paula Hawkins has a new thriller, and let’s just say it’s no ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Literary rivalry, on the other hand, and in particular literary envy, is in my view hugely promising: nuanced, sordid and inherently comical. Martin Amis Is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “It has a long and sordid history in psychology, especially pop psychology,” said Scott O. Lilienfeld, a professor of psychology at Emory College in an email. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Both men have had experience bending sordid real life into sometimes equally sordid drama. Barney, The Tempest and Casino Jack: Warming Up for Oscar 2010-12-31T07:00:00Z The sordid tale of Saint Emilion’s troubled effort to establish a classification system, more about politics than quality, and the French wine industry’s struggle with pesticides provide additional fodder for Saporta’s investigative skills. What to give a wine lover for the holidays: Books over bottles 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Greed, too, gives us the sordid reality rather than the idealised fantasy, although ironically Winterbottom was forced to pull some punches. Greed is ... good? Why Hollywood can't make its mind up about billionaires 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z In the months that followed, a sordid string of accusations against Sobchak appeared in the press. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z The film epitomizes noir’s grim sense of fate, and the cheap production values only add to the sordid ambience. Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z This was the heyday of the verismo movement, which championed realistic depictions, however sordid, of everyday life. Music Review: At Rose Theater, a Gritty Neapolitan Love Triangle 2010-05-25T22:35:00Z I am fascinated by Mom's sordid early life. To read this weekend: Mindy Kaling, Roger Ebert 2011-09-30T16:37:04Z For now, he insists, we need to see and sit with the most sordid realities of slavery straight-on, no filter. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z In his travel memoir “The Gentleman in the Parlor,” he reviled the city’s “dense traffic,” its “ceaseless din,” its “insipid” cuisine and “sordid” houses. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Over the years, that banner, symbol of the sordid and persistent depths of the United States’ original sin, has itself gone through a variety of iterations in its design and adaptation to various purposes. Hank Willis Thomas opens a 'Black Righteous Space' at the California African American Museum 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The centerpiece of this “incisive show,” he writes, “puts white nationalism and its perversion of authentic Christian values on sordid display.” Essential Arts & Culture: What L.A. loses if we lose the NEA; starchitecture in Hamburg; Kerry James Marshall at MOCA 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z But of course no one involved in the whole sordid chapter wanted that to happen. How Liz Smith invented Donald Trump 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Whatever the image of absinthe might be these days, a pastis is hardly sordid. Pastis, a Perfect Aperitif for the Lazy Days of Summer 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z But now sordid details were exposed by reporters and Starr. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was embarrassing to talk about — but changed how we discuss sex 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Fans of “The Great British Baking Show,” who are legion, already know the sordid tale behind the kitchen counters and pastel-colored Kitchen-Aid mixers of the BBC and Channel 4. ‘The Great British Baking Show’ Review: Back for Another Serving 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z While Vinci’s establishment is still safe for now, Blake, the duplicitous enabler of their sordid parties, did finally meet a sticky end. True Detective: season two, episode seven recap – Black Maps and Motel Rooms 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z As good 21st-century exhibition curators must, they shine their light, a little diffidently at times, on the sordid as well as the splendid aspects of Dutch power. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z It’s a daringly creative and often gleeful coda to this long, sad, sordid true story. Lecher Actress Victim Spy 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z An actor, even, and considered by some to be a heartthrob, albeit of the sordid variety. Mickey Rourke’s macho trainwreck: A Hollywood virility pageant gone wrong 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Last week, we delved into the sordid history of one of the most celebrated painters in art history, Caravaggio. Caravaggio the criminal: How a life on the lam changed the Baroque painter's art 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Not one, but two freshman drama series on the Starz network were overlooked: "Boss," starring Kelsey Grammer as the tyrannical mayor of Chicago, and "Magic City," set in the sordid glamour of 1960s Miami Beach. It's time to survey, and protest, Emmy nominations 2012-07-19T17:57:10Z I am worried he is just waiting for me to die to inherit my money so he can start up his sordid "lifestyle" again. Perspective | Ask Amy: Bum of a husband stresses sick wife 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Here, it’s society’s indifference to the sordid lives and lonely deaths of people like Margo’s mother. The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Addiction is such an internal experience that it's difficult to dramatize without resorting to shock value and sordid junkie stereotypes. 'Oslo, August 31st': Taking addiction one day at a time 2012-06-07T20:45:10Z In the room with Lavinia and Orin, we experience at close range an oppressive onslaught of sordid secrets, and the fusty heaviness of the play takes over. Review: ‘Mourning Becomes Electra,’ Up Close and Powerful 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z She was watching “Baby Face,” a delectably sordid 1933 studio film about an Übermensch in silk stockings played by Barbara Stanwyck, who climbs to the top one bed at a time. Just a Maid in Movies, but Not Forgotten 2011-04-22T23:23:02Z Andrews franchise brings to this collection of stories yet another chilling exploration of family and the sordid webs people weave using the past, the present, and the promise of the future. "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin" cast: Who’s in the Lifetime prequel series? 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z At the entrance, a marker recounts the sordid fate of one of its inhabitants, the Princess de Lamballe, a confidante of Marie Antoinette who was set upon there by a mob. My Paris: Seduced by the Past 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z And by spending so much time with the victims’ families, Kolker captures the sordid allure of a notorious crime. ‘Lost Girls’: real lives behind the lurid headlines 2013-07-19T23:33:44Z The later years of his life were particularly sordid. A New Biography Traces Tiger Woods’s Mythical Rise and Fall 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z For one company, at least, the reality was more sordid than you might think. Hello? It’s ‘Telemarketers,’ Here to Tell You About an Amazing Scam 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z I prefer shows that leave me feeling a better person – QI or Just A Minute usually do the trick – rather than slightly sordid for guffawing along with a load of matey bullying. Time to Mock off? 2010-06-16T15:46:00Z It’s a complicated history that’s dominated by inauthentic and sordid characterizations, with transgender lives as the objects of ridicule, disgust and violence. Transgender Lives Onscreen: Seen, but Not Always Believable 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The Reeperbahn was a sordid place where seamen came to spend their money. T Magazine: Twist and Stout 2011-03-25T14:00:14Z The story’s facile connections between France’s sordid politics and its sordid crimes, however, are less convincing than its other, nondramatic documentary elements. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z He had a particular affinity with Greece, another country where the landscape contains both traces of ancient mysteries and the detritus of sordid modern arguments. A display of digging 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Wolves at the Door A repellently exploitative entry in the already sordid “Manson movies” canon. Mark Kermode’s best films of 2017 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z When it comes to watching a movie, I watch a movie for the story and the characters, not the actors or their sordid misdeeds. The Race to Erase Kevin Spacey 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Liebling sings — a foreboding line that has rung true across five separate, sordid decades. Doomed for life: How Pentagram became metal’s ultimate survivors 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z With its earnest passion, “If Beale Street Could Talk” evokes America’s own sordid mockery of the pursuit of happiness. The Politics of Memory in Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s a dense, ever-shifting collage, variously hinting at ska-punk, Britpop, fiddle tunes and “Sympathy for the Devil,” with barbed bits of lyrics like “sordid, sentimental, sick souvenirs” and “Even the devil sold his soul.” Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The secretive inner workings of humanity head toward sordid public expression. From brash Pop to a more complicated mix: Peter Saul at CB1-G 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The sordid history of financier Jeffrey Epstein, who socialized with Prince Andrew, Bill Gates and Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, has spawned a cottage industry of books, magazine articles and documentaries. Review | A Jeffrey Epstein accuser shares scathing allegations in a new memoir: ‘My book is my day in court’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z “He has consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others,” prosecutors wrote of Weinstein. Weinstein to be sentenced for sex crimes after watershed #MeToo trial 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z The explanations, when they come, are violent, sordid and anticlimactic. Television Review: ?Stephen King?s Bag of Bones,? on A&E - Review 2011-12-10T00:29:04Z Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy, one the most influential American reviewers in Cannes, praised the film as “a tasty wallow in sordid goings-on.” Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 1: Zac Efron in The Paperboy 2012-05-25T16:21:11Z And the would-be beauty queen’s mother finds herself, after three husbands, in a sordid hookup with a driver’s ed teacher at a sleazy motel. 'The Dream Life of Astronauts,’ Hopes Too Fragile for the Cold 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z And, if they do not know about this, then why would I want to hurt them by telling them about this sordid history between their mother and my father, right? Perspective | Ask Amy: My dad and our neighbor had an affair. Can I ask my neighbor’s daughter if she knew? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Separating themselves from DeMille’s sordid behavior, they sealed off the basement until 2018, when its current owners bought the house for nearly $5 million. Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stash 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The sordid conditions of its condemned—stowed away for decades, eight men to a 120-square-foot cell, sustained on filthy gruel and constantly recontaminating one another with disease—are the least of its horrors. Flowers from the muck 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z “The film would seem vastly more sordid without his irrepressible good humor.” What’s on TV Thursday: Remembrances on ‘Training Day’ and ‘Nashville’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Chris does some excellent hosting as he tells the next part of the sordid tale. 'Bachelor in Paradise' Recap: Every Rose Has Its Thorns 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The murder of a fellow maid launches an investigation that yields sordid secrets by the score. 10 summer TV shows worth watching 2013-05-31T22:38:09Z The sweetness, the sobriety, and the fresh delicacy of these performers prevents the film from ever becoming sordid. Brief Encounter: Archive review 2010-10-16T10:54:00Z “Nightmare Alley,” made under the restrictions of the Production Code, would never have been able to show anything that sordid. The 1947 ‘Nightmare Alley’: A Dark View of Class as Destiny 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s all extremely sordid and inevitably sad: so-called snuff films may not be real but the audience for facsimiles undoubtedly is. | 'S&Man': Shots From the Underground 2010-10-01T04:16:00Z A restless, fun-loving party animal, he was the black sheep of his respectable family, and was a tanguero at a time when Argentina’s national dance was still considered a sordid working-class pas de deux. Che Guevara’s brother: ‘Ernesto must be pulled from his pedestal’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The fact of the matter is that a lot of my experiences are from times when I was in rehab, or some halfway house, or some even more sordid situation. My non-addict wife 2012-09-30T13:00:00Z Listening to that nine-minute tape of Sterling brought the whole sordid mess back. My racist older lover 2014-05-01T23:00:00Z Franklin was arrested in 2010, and accusations that he committed sordid activities splashed across media in Southern California. 'Tales of the Grim Sleeper' documentary looks at L.A. slaying suspect 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z She was excellent as the English girl trying to break into sordid movies. Susannah York obituary 2011-01-16T10:38:03Z "It's a façade covering up a pretty sordid past," Duhamel said. CBS serving up a bowl full of Vince Gilligan in 'Battle Creek' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z We were supposed to feel sordid, peering in on performers from our cubicles, and I did. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-04T23:06:05Z For years, many in the press have decried the dinner for projecting a kind of sordid chumminess between journalists and politicians. Why Donald Trump Is Skipping the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The sordid choreography from "Laurey's Dream" reappears, resonantly, in the innocent context of the country dance. 'Oklahoma!' sweeps audience back to prairie in lush show 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z He also closed a particularly sordid hot tub area and ousted a drug-dealing squatter. Scene Stealers: A Los Angeles Gay Landmark Buttons Up 2014-03-14T23:11:54Z It had always seemed a matter of mere politesse to skip these sordid details when describing to a stranger who I was. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z But the Blox TV, a media company with an online channel and companion website, doesn’t shy away from capturing the sordid bits along with the sublime. The Rebranding of the Bronx 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z I was beginning to despair that the only mysteries deemed worthy of review were those of the sordid and, unfortunately, all-too-real hard-boiled variety. ‘Commercial’ vs. ‘Literary Writing,’ Cozy Mysteries and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Director Shana Cooper, who gave such a satisfyingly sinister aura to Woolly Mammoth’s creepy “The Nether,” accomplishes with “Hir” another smart variation on the sordid. Review | Taylor Mac’s play ‘Hir’ shows an America that’s groping in the dark for its moral identity 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The Grail went global, with allusions to the contrast between the opulence of Catholic ritual in South America and the sordid social conditions in the favelas. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z Orwell's depiction of his sordid lodgings above a tripe shop – with an unemptied chamber pot beneath the breakfast table – makes great copy but tells us little about the living conditions of most Wiganers. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z Even when detailing the most sordid episodes, Keefe’s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. In ‘Empire of Pain,’ the American Dynasty Behind OxyContin 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Arriving at the Baftas on your own is like going to any party where you don’t know anyone, except that everyone here is the most elegant person you have ever seen in your sordid life. My Baftas adventure: Dev Patel, liquid diabetes and clapping injuries 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Bet they have awful, sordid tales to tell as well. Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s rare to find a story that’s both as sordid and as uplifting as this one turns out to be. Rock ’n’ Roll and Write 2012-11-22T21:38:44Z Penn’s Morton collection vividly embodies both the sordid side of the enterprise, and the way the meanings of collections change. What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z That’s all you need to unlock New York’s sordid, sexual underworld. Bah, Humbug: 12 Movies for the Holiday Blues 2013-12-20T18:09:17Z There are, to be sure, back stabbings, betrayals and sordid affairs aplenty, the stuff of which soap operas — and country songs — are made. Television: ‘Nashville,’ the TV Series Starring the City 2012-10-07T05:09:02Z There are vivid descriptions of the sordid divorce mills, and other institutions which exploit broken lives. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Having kept this story under wraps for almost 50 years, Ms. Alford now sets off a firestorm of gossip about its sordid details. Books of The Times: ?Once Upon a Secret?: Mimi Alford on Her Affair With Kennedy 2012-02-08T22:11:42Z And with this off my chest, I’m hoping now I can finally move past the whole sad, sordid story. Dead Tree Alert: Won’t Someone Think of the Parents! 2012-11-29T13:14:51Z Going through the oil baron's papers, Chernow had expected to unearth "sordid tales of collusion with the railroads, the bribing of entire state legislatures, the coercion of small retailers." Ron Chernow receives biography award 2013-05-19T15:16:08Z When a job takes her to Montauk, the starting point for this whole sordid mess, she decides to uncover what really happened to her mother. The Week in Arts: An End to ‘The Affair’; A Lincoln Center Horror Show 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Cable networks are preoccupied with branding these days, and documenting the more sordid aspects of modern life is an important part of the identity of outlets from TLC to MTV to Bravo. Critic?s Notebook: Criminals, Addicts, Misfits: That?s Entertainment 2011-01-20T00:30:21Z American television is more squeamish about stereotypes — the Chicago Gallaghers live a life of petty crime in sordid squalor, but they speak without accents or vicious slurs. Television Review: Sincerest Forms of Flattery for British Shows 2011-01-06T23:10:24Z Thus was life in the England of the early 1960s, an era epitomised by privilege, hypocrisy and sordid glamour, by powerful men and the "good time girls" they bedded. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-14T09:00:01Z Hamilton later wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation, starring James Stewart, but was unhappy with the result, calling the film "sordid and practically meaningless balls". Patrick Hamilton gets blue plaque 2011-02-15T15:08:31Z “The story was very sordid and burlesque-y and soap opera-y in a really trashy way, but it had a lot of symbolism about women in it,” she said. Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Benfey reminds us of our debt to a category-demolishing, globe-striding man who indeed contained multitudes, the author of an immortal ode to equanimity who fled America because of a sordid brawl with his brother-in-law. Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Lucky for him, I guess, the motel was just as sordid as he’d said. Chainsaws, fire and paranoia: my total bedbug meltdown 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z But appearances are deceptive and once the revelations start coming, it's like watching a house of cards collapse as their relationships, motivations and double dealings are revealed in sordid detail. This week's new theatre 2013-01-26T06:00:15Z Ballet is somehow utterly cosmopolitan: both high culture and its sordid obverse. Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Indeed, the story of Epstein’s underworld is so sordid and shocking in the plain telling that some of Ransome’s rhetorical flourishes feel unnecessary, even distracting. She Survived a Tough Childhood. Then She Met Jeffrey Epstein. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, this was democracy, happening in public, laying bare all the sordid truths we wish we knew, but don’t, and won’t, and would probably forget anyway. Russia is messing with us, and so is Congress 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z It feels mildly out of place in the slightly sordid milieu of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, but the musical theater lovers basking in the audience are not likely to complain. Theater Review: ?Pipe Dream,? From Rodgers and Hammerstein, at Encores! 2012-03-29T21:28:11Z The Leftovers disappeared two percent of the human race, while Fargo turned the chipper Upper Midwest into a sordid bloodbath. Do we need a Twin Peaks revival when TV is so much weirder now? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Following it lets me keep in touch with the sordid crackle of contemporary digital culture from what feels like a safe critical distance. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z The journalist says nothing about this sordid business for decades. The ethical dilemmas raised by Gay Talese’s latest article 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z His mission was to chronicle, in fiction and memoir, the sordid world in which he had lived. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z However, the public had now glimpsed the sordid side of the film business – the scandal concentrated the full glare of the world’s attention on Hollywood’s young, desperate and sometimes tragic starlets. Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Terfel, in every sense a towering and mesmerising presence, gave that sordid show of piety even greater force than usual. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z As the Weeknd became a full-fledged pop star, his actions grew more sordid to mirror his element. The Weeknd’s decade of dystopia 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Adelaide’s life unfolds in the sordid surroundings of Britannia Mews as a consequence; she pursues the hapless drawing teacher, despite his attempts to warn her off. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Ignore America and prepare to celebrate the sordid unhappiness of very rich, insulated Brits. AP Emmy pundits favor ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ for honors 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Younger readers may need to relax their brains somewhat to believe Deirdre, Ken and Mike Baldwin were ever in a ratings-smashing sordid love triangle, but believe me, it did happen. My Street life 2010-12-03T07:00:00Z The Spectator called it a "sordid little travesty of a play". Sarah Kane's debut play Blasted returns 2010-10-24T20:31:00Z Their pursuit of it was often sordid, and the sums they were willing to risk irrational. Reason not the need 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z AnnSkea concedes that Winterson's "short, abrupt sentences" successfully depict the witches and their "sordid lives", but hopes she will soon return to her usual style. Reader reviews roundup 2012-11-30T19:00:21Z In "Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan," Netflix's latest, shocking true crime project takes audiences on a sordid and haunted journey through the life and alleged crimes of Billy Milligan. "Monsters Inside" examines how a criminal's claims of dissociative identity disorder made him a star 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Basically it’s O’Neill without teeth or intensity, diluting the play’s dramatic conflicts and stripping the grit from its sordid milieu as it lurches to an abrupt, love-conquers-all happy ending. Theater Review: ‘New Girl in Town,’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-07-29T22:00:21Z Andrea runs a sordid gantlet of sexual violations before taking desperate charge of her life, yet she remains ferociously innocent. Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Over the next several years, a sordid mix of Pakistan government officials, political parties and militant groups provided refuge and aid to the Taliban and other Afghan insurgents. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z Morley was a British aristocrat who served in the House of Lords, and who was "involved in a sordid sex scandal that led to divorce" in 1809. Has Jane Austen's real Mr. Darcy been found? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Bondy’s “Tosca” was unsuccessful because it was messily conceptualized and gratuitously sordid, not because a gritty, dark take on this work is an impossibility. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Tosca’ Overcomes Months of Chaos 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z As Pine probes ever deeper, he encounters the two Delastone daughters, the wild and gorgeous Karen and the studious and plain Martha, while the case grows increasingly complex and sordid. Review | Years ago I wandered into a used book store and a man named X handed me this gem 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z But “Trump and His Generals” raises, even if it does not address deeply, some important questions about the outlandish and sordid tale. The Military’s Illusions About Donald Trump 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Lurid, sordid, sensational — it all means the same thing anymore, in the era of fast-traveling viral news and video clips. Review | Showtime’s ‘Escape at Dannemora’ is a brilliant series for our remorseless times 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Each character remains firmly lodged in the present, often sordid moment. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Heaven and Earth 2013-07-02T16:03:02Z The author of two poetry collections and a memoir, “Priestdaddy,” Lockwood is a modern word witch, her writing splendid and sordid by turns. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z But from there, it departs from the facts greatly, diverging into sordid, murderous plots affecting the police officers investigating the case and the women in their lives. Movies Based on True Crime 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z But sordid dream factories still produce dreams, and “Miss Lovely”has sympathy for the strivers it shows, men and women trapped in the gutter but compulsively and vainly reaching for the stars. The Week Ahead: Oct. 21 — 28 2012-10-21T07:30:05Z But the authors should have focused their material far more carefully so that we could read their story, however sordid, with understanding if not always with pleasure. Best-selling thriller ‘Crow Girl’ dives deep — too deep — into darkness 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Two days after being blown out in the opener, they lost, 4-2, to fall behind two games-to-none with the next two games in Arizona and sordid history working against them. Plaschke: Dodgers collapsing for second straight postseason? Unbelievably, believe it 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z But Rouse said he prefers not to focus on the sordid past. Uber strikes deal to partner with Yellow Cab, other taxi fleets in Southern California 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Tracy alleges that she received sordid messages and phone calls from Tucker after working with the MSU program to educate players on sexual violence. Michigan State turmoil won’t change Maryland’s approach to Big Ten opener 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The author has a gift for creating characters and stories that infuse even the most sordid corners of humanity with an unforced gentleness. The stoner thriller canon has a new candidate: Lou Berney's novel 'Dark Ride' 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Maybe lost in all the sordid numbers from the Rams game is that Smith’s 112 passing yards were the fewest of his 21 starts as a Seahawk. What to watch for when Seahawks take on Lions in Week 2 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Though he’s never found much acclaim on this side of the border, Ripstein occupies a vaunted status at home, entrenched between the sordid and the sublime. The greatest Mexican filmmaker you’ve never heard of 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Ultimately, Kemp, Raffensperger, Bowers, Cheney and the others, all of whom will be heroes of this sordid passage of American history, made moral decisions. Character counts — just ask Brian Kemp | Francis Wilkinson 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z As bad and kitschy as many of those products may be, Trump’s larger, more sordid legacy will be the lowering of our social and political standards to subterranean levels. Column: Another day, another Trump indictment isn't some ho-hum event 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Timbers had seen Mulaney perform the “Baby J” material at Madison Square Garden last year and was taken aback by the comic’s willingness to reveal his sordid side. John Mulaney opens up about addiction and rehab, and Alex Timbers has his back 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z “Alabama’s latest congressional map is a continuation of the state’s sordid history of defying court orders intended to protect the rights of Black voters,” Holder said. Federal judges review Alabama’s new congressional map, lack of 2nd majority-Black district 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z And so began, as historian and essayist Carey McWilliams wrote, “the long and sordid aftermath involving jury fixing, bribery, and murder.” Real estate, transit, oil — how early L.A. built fortunes and bred scoundrels 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z “Lake Lanier has a dark and sordid past, marked by multiple tragic incidents that have resulted in the loss of innocent lives,” Foster’s petition reads. Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Foster fights to drain Georgia lake after son's fatal accident 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The Sun originally reported the presenter gave the teen "more than £35,000 since they were 17 in return for sordid images". Questions for the Sun over BBC presenter story 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z "Instead it is a sordid tale of squalid lies, greed and fraud," he said. Fleetwood Town owner Andy Pilley jailed for fraud 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Five-hundred days later, the medals remain somewhere in storage because of yet another sordid and as-yet-unresolved doping case to come out of Russia. Olympic skaters still missing medals 500 days later 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z But Trump's critics cited the existence of Martin's laptop to counter the GOP narrative about Hunter Biden's sordid laptop contents. Legal experts compare Trump to Nixon over secret tapes — and key aide gave DOJ even more evidence 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The sordid accusations recalled an earlier era of outlandish behavior and political posturing in the State Capitol. G.O.P. Split in Texas Breaks Wide Open With Drunkenness Accusation 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z “It’s been a sordid history,” Mark Butler, a former Joshua Tree superintendent, told The Times in 2017. Riverside County ghost town sells for $22.6 million to mysterious company 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z “The media has turned public discussion into an amusement park. Social media, at its worst, is a sordid spectacle. A grotesque burlesque. Lives are reduced to mockery and ridicule.” Australian Indigenous TV host quits program over racist backlash 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The Hollywood icon is known for her candor with juicy anecdotes and sordid stories alike, and she offered up both this week. Jane Fonda got hit on by a director who wanted to prepare for an upcoming sex scene 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Still, the sordid potential of fun pills or finding out someone is secretly rich makes you look every now and again. The spines on the wall do talk 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Which brings us to perhaps the biggest bombshell revelation of the whole sick and sordid affair of Mr. Epstein. CIA Director William Burns and the creepy dirtbag Jeffrey Epstein 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z For example, the designer once told Numéro magazine he was “fed up” with the #MeToo movement while deeming models who spoke out about abuse “stupid,” “toxic” and “sordid creatures.” Jameela Jamil slams Met Gala attendees for celebrating 'known bigot' Karl Lagerfeld 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z A more discreet landlord would have concealed this sordid history. The rent is high. The apartment is a dump. When can I move in? 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Also, a team’s financial well-being is ensured by the league divvying up television’s billions, every franchise profiting equally, no matter a franchise’s sorry, sordid, serial instances of incompetence. Opinion | Jack Kent Cooke’s football dynasty crumbled under Dan Snyder 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Then “Prima Facie” makes its own sordid case clear when the justice tables turn on her. Jodie Comer knows how to slay. She had to learn how to bow. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “Selling body parts has a long and sordid history,” Mone said. Millions of Californians are willing to donate organs, but relatively few do. Here's why 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z On the heels of sordid revelations about police behavior, the city of Antioch and its Police Department have been named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging police brutality and racial discrimination. LAPD officer has part of a finger bitten off during Metro line fracas 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In their minds, educators indoctrinate students, encourage them to understand racism and the sordid history of our past and reject the gender God gave them at birth. Republicans' war on teachers backfires 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The girls’ relationship became the subject of sordid fascination and endless speculation. Anne Perry, crime novelist with her own murder record, dies at 84 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z In his long life there is much to gossip about, and the biography avoids most of the sordid details that might have preoccupied a less serious biographer. Review | Ethan Hawke on a new biography of the elusive Sam Shepard 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Either way, Bonaduce seemed trapped in a sordid Hollywood cliché about a life and a career gone off the rails. A writer's decades-long connection with Danny Partridge — and Danny Bonaduce 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z This was history, yes, but of the most sordid kind. Analysis | Donald Trump, a tawdry case and a nation still mired in his chaos 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The Westerly had been under surveillance for two months and came with a sordid history. Horrifying stories of women chased down by the LAPD abortion squad before Roe vs. Wade 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Trump paid $130,000 to the woman, Stormy Daniels, to keep her quiet when she threatened to tell the sordid tale and upend his quest for the White House. Trump’s stranger-than-fiction moment | Horsey cartoon 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Mr Cooper said the defendant had had a "sordid relationship" with the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, but was "never ever" going to leave his fiancée for her. Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Murder-accused hated but not guilty, jury told 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z But I also believe America can never begin to move on from this sordid era of criminality, corrosion of democracy and trashing of the rule of law until Trump is held criminally accountable. Indictment watch, Week 2: A panel of experts on what gruesome damage Trump will wreak next 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Both the Kremlin’s propaganda machine and Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner forces, have sought to portray all those killed as heroes defending the Motherland, no matter how sordid their backgrounds. They Left Town as Convicts. Will They Be Buried as Heroes? 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z It's been widely believed, especially in liberal circles, that if Fox viewers learn the sordid details, they will be turned off from the network. "The customer's always right": Here's why the GOP loves conspiracy theories. 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The lawsuit could draw further attention to a sordid chapter in Hunter Biden’s life, one involving nude photos, sensitive audio and a trove of personal texts and emails. Hunter Biden sues laptop repair shop owner, citing invasion of privacy 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z More material from the laptop has since been released, painting a sordid picture the younger Biden. Hunter Biden sues repairman over release of personal data from laptop 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Remember, for a school that has won an NCAA-record 11 national titles, it still has a sordid history of losing these first-round games. Column: UCLA looks all business in NCAA tournament opener rout over UNC Asheville 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z “And we’re saying that Mississippi is one place that we cannot tolerate any going back. Mississippi has a sordid past.” Ex-rep: Legislative plans in Mississippi are ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The firm examined the origins of a sad, sordid and embarrassing soap opera involving Berhalter, former — and perhaps future — coach of the U.S. team, and the parents of one of his star players. Commentary: Threats and mudslinging. Damage caused by Gio Reyna's parents will haunt U.S. Soccer 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Every day new revelations about the sordid state of Greece's train network cause more horror, anger and distrust of the political class. Greece train crash: Rage at elite over young victims of rail tragedy 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z It also mirrors the long, sordid history of Black women not having autonomy over their own bodies. ‘It’s Always Been Ours’ offers a differing view of health and wellness 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Komatireddy also said the cooperators were perfectly placed to understand the sordid world of the cartel. Key Question in Corruption Trial: Will Jurors Believe Cartel Witnesses? 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Françoise Thom, a professor of Russian history at the Sorbonne, said these descriptions “completely conceal the sordid dimension of the Putin reality” and are “very close to the Russian propaganda image.” A Hit French Novel Tries to Explain Putin. Too Well, Some Critics Say. 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z But Christopher has secrets, too, and Amidon provides twist after twist as the revelations about what really happened that night grow more sordid and sad. Review | ‘Locust Lane’ is as perceptive as it is compulsively readable 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z It may all feel a little sordid and intrusive, but it sells. Prince Harry memoir describes attack by brother 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Since shelling destroyed the staircase to her apartment nine months ago, Lubov Gazhla, 62, has lived in a sordid storage closet underground, down a narrow maze of rusted pipes and exposed brick. ‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z But they were incredibly important to the dossier’s sordid history. Obama loyalists in ‘16 kept public in dark about Kremlin-dossier disinfo 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z “I drew the most sordid, unacceptable parts of myself. I’m not as ugly as I draw myself. But when I was younger, that’s how I felt, so that’s what I drew.” Aline Kominsky-Crumb, feminist underground cartoonist, dies at 74 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, referring to the U.S. statements, said in London that “sordid deals” between Tehran and Moscow posed an increasing threat to global security. Russia-Iran military partnership ‘unprecedented’ and growing, officials say 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Pompeo retells the whole sordid business with care and authority, deftly pacing its astonishing developments. Review | 14 mystery books to savor during the long nights of winter 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “Despite these sordid figures there has been zero justice for the victims of extrajudicial killings,” Palabay said in a statement. Philippines protesters decry alleged injustices under Marcos 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z “Iran is now one of Russia’s top military backers,” said Britain’s foreign secretary, James Cleverly, calling the “sordid deals” a threat to global security. Russia and Iran are strengthening their defense partnership, the Biden administration warns. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The "sordid deals" between the two countries have seen Iran send hundreds of drones to Russia, he said. Russia and Iran in full defence partnership - US 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The lawsuits paint a sordid picture of a sporting scene in which coaches use their power to share drugs and initiate sex with underage athletes while a network of institutions provides weak or nonexistent oversight. Cheerleading abuse accusations increase to 20 with Ohio case 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z He has been the punchline for a multitude of comedians who have highlighted the sordid allegations that surround him like a storm cloud and for his propensity to get lost in his own sentences. Perspective | The problem with scarcity 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z In a promotional pamphlet, Hanson described an environment removed from “the sordid commercialism of today.” In Lake Forest Park, Octavia Butler could ‘read, ponder and dream’ 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The medical establishment has a sordid history of mistrust and mistreatment of people of color, especially Black people. How patients wrote 'the first textbook' on long COVID 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z As the Netflix drama revisits a sordid chapter in royal history at an awkward moment for the monarchy, the Windsors’ allies are coming out against it. King Charles III unsuccessfully targeted by egg-throwing protester during York visit 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z In the aftermath of the attack, Republicans and other conservative voices spread lies, misinformation and baseless conspiracy theories about the assault, ominously suggesting that the media was withholding sordid facts about the case. The Facts About the Attack on Paul Pelosi, According to Prosecutors 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Justice Neil M. Gorsuch repeatedly raised the sordid history of Harvard’s admissions policies, saying the holistic approach began in the early 20th Century specifically to limit Jewish admissions. Justices eye end of race-based preferences in school admissions 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z And in a different case involving race in redistricting he memorably wrote: “It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.” Justices’ past affirmative action views, in their own words 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z The sordid business of divvying us up by race has brought us together in opposition to it. Opinion | Colleges will racially discriminate no matter how the Supreme Court rules 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z But his entire legal career is anchored by a deep skepticism of what he has called the “sordid business” of dividing Americans by race. The most diverse Supreme Court ever confronts affirmative action 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The journey was turned into a show, “Dark Tourist,” that streamed on Netflix in 2018 and was derided by some critics as ghoulish and “sordid.” Beaches? Cruises? ‘Dark’ tourists prefer the gloomy and macabre 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z While promoting the book, she took to Instagram to air some of the sordid details. What happened to Jerry Lee Lewis' 13-year-old bride? She's been here the whole time 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Laughter followed and I published the sordid details. “What’s the US military doing in Africa?”: What U.S. Africa Command doesn’t want you to know 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Adding to the questions around the car are sordid details from Lew’s past. Owner of car buried at Bay Area mansion had reported it stolen, collected $87,000 insurance payout 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z As San Francisco mayor, Newsom was reelected after a particularly sordid episode involving an extramarital affair with the wife of a friend and longtime aide. Column: Is Kevin de León a political dead man walking? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Despite that sordid background, for most of U.S. history, federalism also ensured that the units of government that were most capable of solving health problems—the states—had the legal authority to do so. Fights between U.S. States and the National Government Are Endangering Public Health 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z But such government racial classifications are a “sordid business,” as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. once wrote, and that sordidness will inevitably find its way into public view. Opinion | The L.A. City Council scandal holds a lesson for the Supreme Court 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The sordid tale of alleged violence and Machiavellian political intrigue. Opinion | I regret calling for Justin Fairfax to resign 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The fact that neither regulators, the public, nor most of McKinsey’s employees knew about these sordid episodes until the media cast a spotlight on them is a testament to the authors’ prowess as investigative reporters. Review | The scandals and hypocrisy behind McKinsey’s sterling reputation 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Though the New Orleans DA’s office that convicted him had a long and sordid history of misconduct, the only prosecutor ever disciplined in Thompson’s case was the man who helped expose the others’ misconduct. Opinion | For those freed after wrongful convictions, gratitude is a lot to ask 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The year before, he condemned efforts to draw a Latino election district in Texas as a “sordid business, this divvying us up by race.” Joined by first Black woman on Supreme Court, justices to tackle affirmative action, voting rights 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Framed as a sordid 20th-century fairy tale, it achieves a far richer, more expansive kind of portraiture than this blunt instrument of a movie ultimately manages. Review: 'Blonde' isn't really about Marilyn Monroe. It's about making her suffer 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The finding follows a sordid history of hiring shenanigans in Illinois government dating back decades. Report: Ill. Corrections manipulated hiring for phantom post 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Her son Prince Andrew was entangled in the sordid tale of sex offender businessman Jeffrey Epstein, an American businessman who had been a friend. Queen Elizabeth II, UK’s longest-serving monarch, dead at 96 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Her son, Prince Andrew, was entangled in the sordid tale of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an American businessman who had been a friend. Queen Elizabeth II, UK’s longest-serving monarch, dead at 96 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Well, I got the publication right, but little did I know just how sordid it was! Vergecast: Apple Watch rumors, Twitter whistleblowing, and this week in streaming 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Sophie has her own sordid history with the group, and the tension among them bubbles, roiling to a boil throughout the long, bloody night that ensues. ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ review: The cellphones come out and the bodies hit the floor in this brilliant sendup 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z But what a sordid story if Democratic spending helps enable any of them. Opinion | Democrats, stop boosting election deniers in GOP primaries 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Those two minutes of impressionistic storytelling are also a brief respite and an alluring rebuke to a kind of sordid misogyny and inflammatory ignorance that has become a rallying cry for some conservatives and extremists. Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ sequel: A rebuke of misogyny and racism in 2 minutes 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z There have been so many affairs, murders and altogether sordid events in this town over the decades that DC By Foot is able to offer tours devoted to scandals in multiple D.C. neighborhoods. These D.C. walking tours go far beyond the National Mall 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z They can see piles of garbage and even more sordid sights, including, once, a half-naked drunk sprawled in the street. ‘Desperate Characters’ and the Chaos That Lies Beneath 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Yet these two very different Black men have leading roles in the sordid narrative of the right wing’s attempt to take over American politics by any means necessary. Op-Ed: Clarence Thomas earns our scorn 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The sale of the building on Sloane Avenue in Chelsea marks a turning point in a sordid chapter in the Vatican's investment strategies. Vatican takes big loss in sale of London building at heart of trial 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Friends feared that the sordid scene would alienate viewers who had come to sympathize with Joe, played by newcomer Jon Voight, but wouldn’t stand for watching him commit such an act of raw violence. ‘Midnight Cowboy’ still has that X factor 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Who could have guessed that a big pot of money would be found at the heart of this whole sordid affair? Opinion | Trump and Fox News told the ‘big lie’ for profit 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Among multiple sordid allegations, jurors heard testimony about a fraudulent marriage scheme hatched to protect Kelly after he feared he had impregnated R&B phenom Aaliyah in 1994 when she was just 15. Prosecutors: R. Kelly should get at least 25 years in prison 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z I am not one of those people who automatically thinks celebrity scandals — especially sordid, complex sagas that get turned into “pick a team” narratives — are a woeful distraction from the “real” news. We can't agree on the meaning of Depp vs. Heard. Here's how we move forward anyway 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z There is more at work here than a sordid demonstration of homophobia. A new age of fascist politics brings a war on youth — but young people are ready to resist 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The sordid tales that have emerged from the civil trial between Depp and Heard are both jaw-dropping and impossible not to watch. Opinion | Do you feel the need for speed? I know I do. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Ted Cruz for Senate, decided Monday, is more obscure, but the corruption it enables is even more sordid. Opinion | The Supreme Court just made corruption a little easier 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z It has told Filipinos to “move on” from its sordid past and emphasized that the violent 20-year rule of Ferdinand E. Marcos was marked by dozens of infrastructure projects and strong economic growth. Robredo Admits Defeat in Philippine Presidential Election 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The massive corruption was just one part of his sordid legacy. Opinion | Philippines election sends warning about authoritarian nostalgia 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z One of the most egregious episodes in the sordid history of financing higher education through slavery happened at Georgetown University, one of the premier Catholic universities in the nation. Opinion | Harvard’s history with slavery reveals an ugly truth about America 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z There is honor, of a sordid sort, in the Biden administration’s showing more gratitude to a major donor than concern for the needs of millions of children, disproportionately minorities. Opinion | Biden has a tawdry new scheme to cripple charter schools 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z It added that “removal of the Marcianos appears to be the only course available to begin a clean break in this long and sordid thread in the company’s history.” Guess founder, accused repeatedly of sexual misconduct, holds onto board seat in contentious vote 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The disturbing subtext in our time is that light is shed daily on new, sordid tales of this variety. Review | Martin McDonagh, Paula Vogel add to spring bounty on Broadway 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z That sanctimonious posturing is enshrined in the Big Cherry Heritage Festival, a celebration whose entire rationale is undermined by a council member who has discovered the sordid truth of Big Cherry’s past. Review | Tracy Letts skewers America’s shames in stunning debut of ‘The Minutes’ 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Speaking to government officials on Saturday, Francis denounced "sordid agreements with criminals who enslave other human beings". Pope struggles with leg pain on Malta trip, defends migrants 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z So yeah, I mean, that was a really sordid episode. Marie Yovanovitch on Trump, Putin, Zelenskyy, Ukraine's courage and the future of democracy 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Distrusting professional politicians, Liberal Republicans thought the “best men” from well-educated and affluent families of the East and Midwest would put principles ahead of sordid personal interests. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “What Americans need to understand about that sordid chapter of our history is Ukraine was even then at war with Russia ... Ukrainians were even then dying every week, sometimes every day,” Schiff said. News Analysis: Trump delayed weapons to Ukraine and praised Putin. Did that trigger war? 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Brown tried to buck the Huskies’ sordid history with yet another spellbinding performance befitting his final college game. USC knocks UW Husky men out of Pac-12 tournament, leaving unlikely NIT bid as only option to extend season 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The many-sided and sordid Watergate scandal brought President Nixon’s downfall. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The decision was an effort to insulate the House of Windsor from the fallout from potentially years of sordid headlines if the lawsuit moved forward. Prince Andrew gets annihilated by U.K. press after settling sex abuse case: 'His final disgrace' 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z But one or two might wander down a sordid path and find themselves deep in the throes of a gambling addiction. Opinion | The Legalized Gambling Free-for-All 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z On every step of Castro’s sordid journey, the Nationals had their fans’ backs. Column: Dodgers must make it clear Trevor Bauer will never pitch for them again 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z In the midst of all of the relationship drama came tell-all interviews and the publication of a recording of a tapped call that offered sordid details about Charles and Camilla’s private life. Royal Nod for ‘Queen Camilla’ Caps Years of Image Repair 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Davies was born in a sordid refugee camp in Ghana to parents who had fled their native Liberia during that country’s second civil war in 1999. Inside Alphonso Davies' rise from African refugee to Canadian soccer game-changer 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z "It's past time for Alabama to move beyond its sordid history of racial discrimination at the polls, and to listen to and be responsive to the needs and concerns of voters of color." Court Strikes Down Alabama GOP's Racist Congressional Map 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z After years of rumors of mistreatment, recent depositions provide a new and sordid perspective on the school. Survivor993 Is Not Alone: Lawsuits Show Abuse at School for At-Risk Teens 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Acknowledging that sordid history is a start, they write. Colonialism still influences the earth sciences today — and that’s a big problem for research 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Prosecutors were right, he said, not to try “to expose every nook and cranny of the sordid Epstein drama, which is not what this was about.” Maxwell Prosecutors Won Their Case but Shed Little New Light on Epstein 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The jury’s verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14. Family of UK socialite Maxwell voices faith in her innocence 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z You hire a former federal prosecutor, Beth Wilkinson, to do a supposedly “independent” investigation of Snyder’s sordid workplace, then tell her not to document anything. Perspective | The NFL’s silence about Daniel Snyder says plenty about its principles 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z “The attorney general has the opportunity to do what no government official has done throughout the sordid 56- year history of this case — which is to reach a just outcome without delay.” Man Exonerated in Malcolm X Murder Files Lawsuit Against New York State 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The women’s testimony in federal court in Manhattan, at times emotional, offered sordid details about allegations Maxwell groomed them to participate in sexual massages with Epstein. 4 women met Maxwell as teens. They’re accusing her as adults 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Paul Engh asked for a mistrial, decrying the “sordid pictures” that he said were irrelevant and were shown repeatedly to inflame the jury’s sympathies. EXPLAINER: What’s behind ‘sordid’ evidence at Potter trial? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z The sordid history of scholastic and college team coaches or doctors who ignore boundaries with student-athletes, and sometimes commit crimes in crossing them, is often a story of warning signs missed. Opinion | Missed warning signs and bad judgment abound in case of Maryland coach accused of sex abuse 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The company she founded had soared on the promise of innovative blood-testing technology only to crash in a sordid display of failure and alleged deceit. What Elizabeth Holmes had to say at her trial: 5 takeaways 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Despite his crime being essentially back-street and sordid, Lacenaire had the style and wit to turn his trial and subsequent appointment with the guillotine into a kind of performance art. Review | Inspired by real-life murderers, Dostoevsky wrote a new kind of novel 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The damage was immense, but it also seemed as if the whole sordid affair knocked some sense into the sides. End of labor peace is dangerous for MLB, which already has seen its place in the sports landscape recede 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z “I didn’t see any evidence directed towards the proof of guilt today, but rather evidence of sordid pictures and prejudicial impact that had little relevance,” he said. EXPLAINER: What’s behind ‘sordid’ evidence at Potter trial? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Judge Alison J. Nathan’s questions in Manhattan federal court were aimed at seeing if potential jurors can stay impartial in the sordid case against Maxwell. Judge vets potential jurors for Ghislaine Maxwell trial 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z It was intended to promote a documentary on the raging controversy about how and if schools should teach America’s sordid racial history. How young is too young to teach white kids about race? 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Another way to pose the dilemma is to invert Wood’s question: What if a revolution conceived as sordid, racist and divisive cannot be the inspiration for a nation? The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “Regardless of what the Marcoses are saying — that they have become popular and all of that — I think the sordid Marcos legacy is still a handicap.” Dictator’s Son Says Daughter of Duterte Will Back Him in Philippine Election 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z New Mexico customers earlier this year sounded the alarm over the proposal, citing a sordid track record of reliability and customer service among utilities owned by Avangrid in other states. Energy companies seek to sweeten merger deal in New Mexico 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Here’s one of many ironies in the whole sordid mess that is the Nick Rolovich downfall at Washington State: He was in the midst of a brilliant coaching job. With Nick Rolovich gone, remaining WSU football coaches, along with players and fans, try to move forward 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z “The truth behind what happened is both more intimate and more sordid and sadder and more important than what became a good story to sell Carmel.” How a scholar unearthed the cyanide love triangle that toppled a California arts colony 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z “What Happened” does uncover some sordid new details about their marriage. Review | ‘What Happened, Brittany Murphy?’ barely answers its own question 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Powerful interests have a long, sordid history of "regulatory capture." Justice Alito complains, but the evidence is clear: This Supreme Court was built by dark money 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The latest entity following that sordid sequence playbook is the National Women’s Soccer League. Opinion | What will it take for allegations of abuse against women to be taken seriously? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Some of the initial findings released Sunday painted a sordid picture of the prominent people involved. Leaked records open a “Pandora” box of financial secrets 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z The trial of the R&B superstar R. Kelly has featured some 50 witnesses across more than a month of testimony — a blizzard of sordid and sometimes grotesque accusations and counterclaims. R. Kelly’s Trial Is Captivating a Black Audience Online. Here’s Why. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Despite the drugs, glamour, death and twincest, there’s something about the seemingly sordid “Birds of Paradise” that feels sanded down and sanitized. Review: In the subgenre of bleak ballet, 'Birds of Paradise' takes a hopeful turn 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Attorneys for the couple have labeled the accusations “a sordid shakedown campaign that began on social media.” Rapper T.I. and wife Tiny won't face criminal charges over 2005 sex assault allegation, authorities say 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z And if he decides to fight, Andrew faces years of sordid headlines as the case winds its way through court. Prince Andrew served with U.S. civil suit, lawyers say 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z "We will have to tolerate this until the election. And it will be a sordid, tough election," Mandetta said. Analysis: Bolsonaro rallies base but turns off allies and markets 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The new report adds a spree of extrajudicial killings to this sordid record. Opinion | The U.S. can no longer look away from Egypt’s grim human rights record 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z This grief-bound formal experimentation pushes against the sordid narrative of Jane’s death, yielding a kaleidoscopic portrait of a woman whose life has been reduced to “murder victim.” Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine ‘Freedom’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z A new grand jury indictment released on Tuesday revealed new details surrounding the complex and sordid case of Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz. Matt Gaetz claimed to be victim of "extortion" plot — but new DOJ charges tell a different story 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It is their interests that have become caught up in the petty infighting and sordid squabbling of school board members. Opinion | The Prince George’s County school board is making a great case for abolishing the school board 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z From a journalist's perspective, I can say that this method, while sordid, is effective for media manipulation. The "soft" overturn of Roe v. Wade exposes how far-right John Roberts has let the Supreme Court go 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Imperial powers do not forgive those who expose their weaknesses or make public the sordid and immoral inner workings of empire. The graveyard of empires strikes back: But the rage of a dying power can be dreadful 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z These Republican party employees and insiders are speaking out now after Carnahan stepped down last Thursday, following a sordid sex trafficking scandal that threatens to hobble the party apparatus for years to come. How the Minnesota GOP imploded: From a toxic workplace to a full-on sex trafficking scandal 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z But bananas, like every foodstuff that grows in the Global South and becomes a beloved commodity in the Global North, have a rather sordid history. Amid a global banana crisis, Puerto Rico’s abundant biodiversity offers a taste of hope 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The sordid display is just the latest in Giuliani's apparently never-ending string of public gaffes. Rudy Giuliani ridiculed after clip of him shaving in airport restaurant goes viral 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z “In the end, there may be no winners in this sordid story.” Ex-Nissan exec Kelly wants boardroom, not criminal, trial 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Very loosely inspired by the sordid Amanda Knox saga, “Stillwater” follows Baker as he tries, in his noble but socially incurious and ultimately damaging way, to navigate the foreign city’s legal and social systems. Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z It is sordid and foul-mouthed, darkly funny, appropriately excoriating of its main subject, and entirely addictive, and in that sense, it is a very good book. Review | A new Trump book is disturbing but entertaining — and maybe that’s a problem 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z “I always thought politics was an ugly, sordid business I didn’t want anything to do with,” he answered. Does Larry Elder have a path to the governor's office? Maybe, if Democrats don't turn out 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The mom of two said the sordid events unfolded on a peaceful Saturday morning as about 15 people were enjoying an outdoor Zumba class at the park’s Anne Loftus Playground. NYC parks worker exposes himself at playground while high on PCP: NYPD 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z Alan Taylor, the distinguished University of Virginia historian, has spent his career upending the conventional story in favor of the more sordid and useful truth. Review | The young United States’ manifest uncertainty 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The sordid tale involved alcohol, a pier and a gun. Perspective | Accidents can happen: On the Internet, embarrassment is just one errant tap away 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Roberts, a moderating influence on some issues, has been a steadfast vote to limit the use of race in public programs, once writing, "It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race." Justices consider Harvard case on race in college admissions 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Roberts, a moderating influence on some issues, has been a steadfast vote to limit the use of race in public programs, once writing, “It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.” Justices consider Harvard case on race in college admissions 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Neither did he reign over the long, sordid history of housing discrimination in Los Angeles, nor did he design the post-industrial L.A. service economy in which housing costs soared while wages flattened out. Column: The homeless situation in Venice is complicated. But that's no excuse for inaction 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z On a stunningly sordid Thursday night at Staples Center, the Lakers’ title defense lasted about as long as Davis. Column: Is LeBron James too old, Anthony Davis too frail? Playoff failure suggests so 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z When the new case was argued in December, Justice Clarence Thomas noted the provision’s “sordid roots” and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh referred to its “racist origins.” Ban on Non-Unanimous Verdicts Is Not Retroactive, Supreme Court Rules 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Whatever the truth is about her sordid end, Randolph County claims Naomi still. New NC highway markers will highlight local history, lore 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z “Arizona, Texas and several states in the Southwest have a long, sordid history of voter suppression, not only against African Americans but Latinos,” said Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens. As voting fight moves westward, accusations of racism follow 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z The film would win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the adoration of legions of fans while capturing the lonesome bravado and sordid materialism of America in its crass urban decline. Review | ‘Midnight Cowboy’ was a masterpiece made of desperation 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z "Persona" is strongest, both as a film and as an indictment, when it juxtaposes their stories with the sordid history of the tests themselves. "Persona" argues convincingly that it's time to cancel personality tests 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z She developed a following with stories that sometimes packed a wallop, like a series about sordid residential motels. In California's deep-red 'North State,' a one-woman watchdog torments the far right 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Why are our social networks so segregated? — and carefully unpacks the sordid histories that produced it, the policy choices that enable it and the stark choices that proceed from it. Review | Racism targets some but works against everybody 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Bill Clinton was only the second president after Johnson to be impeached, after a series of sordid and unethical episodes that come nowhere near Nixon's misconduct, let alone Trump's. What connects Trump's two acquittals: The profound danger of the "Dershowitz precedent" 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z This from a league with a long, sordid history of discrimination. The Talk of the Super Bowl Is Quarterbacks, Except One 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z "Trump departed the White House a possible — many would say probable, provable — criminal, one who has left a sordid trail of potential and actual misconduct that remains to be fully investigated," wrote Conway. George Conway hands Biden's DOJ a roadmap to make sure Trump ends up in jail 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Speaking to Variety almost five years after the sordid scene, Yeun is opening up about his experience and what he learned from "The Walking Dead." 'The Walking Dead' star Steven Yeun talks about his infamous departure from the show amid Oscar buzz 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z A Delaware computer repairman who went public with the sordid contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive is now suing Twitter for defamation — claiming its content moderation unfairly branded him a "hacker." Computer shop owner sues Twitter over Hunter Biden laptop story 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z She warned Seoul would face a “dear price” unless it prevented this “wicked and sordid act of hostility.” South Korea to criminalize sending leaflets into North Korea, bowing to regime 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z At Wednesday’s argument, Justice Clarence Thomas noted the provision’s “sordid roots” and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh referred to its “racist origins.” Supreme Court Weighs Sweep of Its Ruling on Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Biggs, who is Black and an Obama appointee, pointed to the state’s “sordid history of racial discrimination and voter suppression” continuing to present times. US appeals court rules judge wrongly halted NC voter ID 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z It wasn’t until years later that I came to see it as an act of political courage, freeing the country to move on from a sordid affair that had left us mesmerized and paralyzed. 2020 is not 1974: 4 reasons Trump should not be pardoned 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z This sordid behavior by self-identified progressive journalists is a page out of the Trump playbook and a sad commentary on the collapse of journalistic integrity. The ruling elite's war on truth: America's leaders are increasingly disconnected from reality 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z But as Philadelphia capitulated Sunday, doomed by a sordid assortment of penalties, drops and third-down flops, the Giants coalesced. Giants Make a Case to Win the Grim N.F.C. East 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Who cares except the people involved in these sordid affairs? Feedback: Election angst and our cultural divide 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z O’Donnell, the only one of the three seeking reelection, has a long and sordid history in politics, and it needs to end. Recent Kansas editorials 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Engels complained of the sordid and unhealthy conditions in which the working class lived. California's karmic debt to the world 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z He provided them with calendars that list a different sordid anniversary of racial injustice in America every day of the year. How international players help NBA fight racism 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z They ignore the president’s most sordid tendencies or, worse yet, revel in them. Review | The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The sordid episode crossed my mind almost as soon as Trump issued his cynical call for electoral eagle eyes. Column: Trump's war on election integrity could be ugly at the polls. Here's what it'll look like 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Cotton's Supreme Court War Room website urges Americans to join in the effort, and provides background on "the long and sordid history of Democratic attacks on conservative judicial nominees." Sen. Tom Cotton launches 'Supreme Court War Room' to defend Trump's nominee 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z “I don’t know the denomination as a whole has done a good job of teaching its sordid history,” he said. Prominent Southern Baptists are dropping ‘Southern’ name amid racial unrest 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The finest chroniclers of Washington — Marjorie Williams led the pack, by 10 miles — brought this sordid town to life by grasping that all politics is human. Review: Woodward's Trump exposé 'Rage' reflects the lazy thinking that got us into this mess 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Needless to say, given the way in which this entire sordid episode has made a mockery of the rule of law, I’m not optimistic, but, well, hope springs eternal. TikTok’s deal with Oracle is a bet that Trump will cave on concerns over China 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The Epstein story is sordid enough without having to drag ancient secret societies into it. What are the true goals of QAnon? It's the 21st century's ultimate catfish scheme 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z In the meantime, Barr has essentially conflated the whole country — all of us citizens and taxpayers — with the president and his sordid private debauchery. Column: William Barr is trying to make Trump's misogyny officially 'presidential' 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Just 15 of the nearly 60 people charged in the sordid scheme that rocked the U.S. educational system are still fighting the charges. Few parents, coaches still fighting charges in college scam 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Racism did play a part, to be sure, but racism's sordid history in American politics long predates Trump. Labor Day 2020: The power has shifted 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The answer has everything to do with our sordid history of systemic racism. Opinion | How to reform police liability without involving McConnell or Trump 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z For some ideological warriors, to accept this reality is to make sordid compromises. Opinion | Biden understands what Twitter doesn’t: Democrats need a big tent 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The documents offer a series of sordid allegations about the councilman, with prosecutors alleging that: L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar enters not guilty plea in City Hall corruption case 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z To make a credible appeal to gain governing authority, residents needed to shake off a sordid reputation for vigilante justice. Column: It's time to chop down the 'lynching tree' from this California city's logo 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z In 2015, Russia became directly involved in the Syrian war, leveraging a sordid mix of Syrian units, Lebanese Hezbollah, Shia militias and Russian private military companies. Op-Ed: The U.S. faces new kinds of threats around the globe, but we have failed to adapt 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The settings for the disintegrating relationship were as glamorous as the allegations were sordid. Stakes high as Depp’s libel case against UK tabloid closes 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Still, those dates in the indictment suggest that there is vivid testimony to be had about a lesser-known period in this sordid saga. Opinion | The sordid saga of Ghislaine Maxwell 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z It revealed sordid details about the illicit trade in body parts that flourished in Ramsay Smith’s morgue. The room of the dead: how a museum became a halfway house for bones and spirits 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “But there were also girls from backgrounds that didn’t have the strength or experience to know that this was a sordid, toxic thing. For them, it was just part of the landscape.” High society to hideaway arrest: Ghislaine Maxwell's dramatic fall 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Some who know Huizar personally have struggled to reconcile the sordid allegations with their own experiences. 'Mind-blowing.' Eastside residents, community leaders react to the Jose Huizar case 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z A former friend of Chad Daybell, the man at the center of the sordid "Cult Mom" saga, said he spoke to her about his desire for his late wife Tammy Daybell to die. EXCLUSIVE: 'Cult Mom' husband wanted his late wife dead, former friend tells Nancy Grace 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The life and death of Jeffrey Epstein remain something of a sordid mystery movie. Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged 'spy' ties under fresh scrutiny in new book 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “I made those tweets in the sordid atmosphere of Twitter knife fights where sarcastic put downs and tasteless humor are often the norm.” Utah professor withdraws resignation over protest tweets 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The columnist continued to unload on Trump’s “sordid conduct,” and said the nation is in a “downward spiral into acrimony and sporadic anarchy.” Conservative columnist George Will wins over liberals with scathing takedown of Trump, congressional 'enablers' 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The groves of academe are surely above such sordid considerations as money and finance? Universities fear fall in lucrative overseas students 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Was there any public interest in exposing the personal interactions of three unelected private individuals, beyond our own sordid nosiness? Betrayal and bombast: the surreal story of the Terry v Bridge scandal | Jonathan Liew 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Alternatively, there are sordid, depressing vignettes of political opportunism and finger-pointing. Opinion | The saga of covid-19 is laying bare a conflict over who we want to be 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z |
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