单词 | sordidly |
例句 | The ugliest thing about these stories was that they were all sordidly true. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Destroyer” was among the most unexpected, just because the premise — Ms. Kidman plays Erin Bell, a dissolute, alcoholic Los Angeles detective with a sordidly violent past — sounded preposterous, even faintly risible. At Toronto, Women Who Are Shockingly, Thrillingly Human 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z I came across multivolume Chinese novels from the Ming Dynasty like The Golden Lotus, a sordidly realistic novel from Shakespeare's time. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z What they were selling purported to be an alternative to a sordidly commercial food industry. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z These alternate with scenes set in the present, at the funeral home and the house where the father ended his days sordidly, sitting in his own excrement and surrounded by empty bottles. What’s More Appealing: Eight Seasons of ‘Suits’ or Six Volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard? 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Brooks films the action in sharply defined images with spare and aggressive angles, conjuring the inner howls of conflicting desires tearing Steve and the sordidly glossy milieu apart during even the simplest of events. Richard Brooks’s “Fever Pitch” Never Got Its Due 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Indeed, his collaborations in El Chafirete earned him a passport to Mexico City’s gay underworld – or, to be more precise, Mexico City’s upper world: its sordidly thrilling rooftops. Trespassers on the rooftops: a secret history of Mexico City's cultural revolutionaries 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Always, such sordidly meaningless pledges are concocted entirely for exploitation. How Far We Have Fallen 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z "It almost beggars belief that you could do what you did. You groomed her and sordidly abused her and allowed other men, for money, to sordidly abuse her." Karl Barker jailed over child rape and dogging charges - BBC News 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Still, even at its most sordidly suggestive, the movie always returns to each character’s personal maelstrom of loyalty, competition, loneliness and grief. ‘Foxcatcher’ movie review: Ensemble cast shines in mesmerizing true story The other Joanna, who followed her, was the most profligate 91 woman of her age, and in her ended, meanly and sordidly, the line of Anjou sovereigns. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z We put up iron railings to keep the explorers to our own sordidly asphalted paths. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Pacifism, far from being branded as too idealistic and sentimental, is now scorned as "sordidly material." The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z How drear and sordidly selfish, poor and unprofitable existence seems to him then. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Too often are they found to be high feeders, copious drinkers, keenly, if not sordidly, acquisitive, unimaginative, and coarse in their ideas and tastes. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z Instead, he built meanly and sordidly, though mainly by cause of poverty. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The pageantry of dawn and sunset, of seas and mountains, how incongruous a framework for our petty breed, sordidly crawling under the stars. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z It makes our city existence seem so sordidly artificial. The Valiants of Virginia It was a sordid, commonplace story, sordidly treated by the soured and vindictive wife, whose eventual aims upon her saviour's purse were too obvious to be mistaken. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath But this will look so sordidly in story: I shall be grown discourse for grooms and footboys, Be balladed, and sung to filthy tunes. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 It is prosaically and sordidly of this earth, especially in the case of men. The Day of His Youth And I want to see women working as they love to work, not sordidly and cheaply in a market of labour. Years of Plenty Then the two candles guttered fitfully, sordidly, just as they had always done. The Missourian I felt shy about the ceremony, and sordidly reluctant to spend the sum of money upon my dress which I knew it must cost me. Records of Later Life This happy imprisonment on the mountain top with these two refined women and this kindly man with the friendly heart and splendid body and brain, he deemed worth a lifetime spent more sordidly. The Eye of Dread For since they draw their support and make gain from what these have written, they confess themselves most sordidly greedy of gain, willing to do anything for a few drachmas. A Source Book for Ancient Church History She enjoyed glimpsing in through uncurtained windows, into sordid rooms where human beings moved as if sordidly unaware. The Lost Girl He was a great libertine, given to unnatural crimes, and sordidly solicitous for plunder of the Waldenses. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs Charles was at this time in the power of both the Kellys, who are described by one of his adherents as "false, ambitious, and sordidly avaricious." Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. It was when one came to details that the charm sordidly vanished—at least to the critical vision of the young housewife. Under the Country Sky There was something so sordidly repellent in the flimsily furnished rooms of the hotel where they went first, that she shed a few tears of pure homesickness. One Woman's Life He illustrates sordidly a chapter of England's history. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary “And did she pay you a whole lot for it?” inquired Ellen sordidly. An Alabaster Box Those that have been sordidly avaricious dwell in cells, and love swinish filth and such stenches as are exhaled from undigested food in the stomach. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell Doubtless fanaticism, hypocrisy, and a self-interest that looked sordidly even at heaven, mingled in bringing about the decision. The End of the World A Love Story The Division Of Meat-Shooters contains all men who sordidly shoot for the frying-pan,—to save bacon and beef at the expense of the public, or for the markets. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Many persons had too little imagination or were too sordidly bound by their daily ties to care. George Washington How could you think sordidly of what was sacred and holy to me, of what I thought was holy to us both? The Second Generation How interesting and how sordidly picturesque against the background of romantic landscape, of scenic history! The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Speaking sordidly, I shall obtain food and lodging while I look about me. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 What he said seemed so simple and so easy, so sure of success, that none could be so sordidly attached to this earth as to hesitate to follow the three travelers on their lunar expedition. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon I am condemned as brutally profligate: I am classed with the stupidly and sordidly wicked. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale Among different surroundings and in an atmosphere less sordidly striving and commonplace, she was fitted to have become, with some encouragement, an admirable and utterly inconspicuous wife and mother. Stories from Everybody's Magazine It was simply impossible to believe that these three hearty fellows were anything but what they seemed—three ordinary, game-playing, suburban Englishmen, wearisome, if you like, but sordidly innocent. The Thirty-Nine Steps What can be tamer, duller, more prosaic, more sordidly humdrum, more hopelessly sane, more characteristic of common, under-bred, provincial feminine cackle? Peter Ibbetson The whole affair was, so to speak, sordidly innocent. Sir George Tressady — Volume I We sin very carelessly—sordidly, at times,—and artistic wickedness is rare. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking He was an ingenuous youth, sordidly shabby and dirty. Twilight in Italy Then shall I have all the rascals and rascalesses of the family come creeping to me: I prescribing to them; and bringing that sordidly imperious brother to kneel at the footstool of my throne. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 "Our peasants live too sordidly," observed a Frenchman to me a day or two later. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne At Brussels, where I was with him at the time of the Kermesse, he flung himself into all that riotous Flemish life, with a zest for what was most sordidly riotous in it. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons Her brother was sordidly wicked,--a hoary ruffian, to whom the language of pity was as unintelligible as the gabble of monkeys. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker What is it? why is it? and why are such luminous tints so sordidly concealed? My Tropic Isle No one accuses him of personal corruption or of sordidly interested motives. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) It is so sordidly commonplace, and you are so very far removed from sordid things that I didn't think you would care to hear of it. The Silver Horde In book-buying you not infrequently condone an extravagance by the reflection that this particular purchase will be a good investment, sordidly considered: that you are not squandering income but sinking capital. Pagan Papers Something ironically vulgar, sordidly tragic has seemed to creep into my relations with Judith. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel It goes on its placid way, prattling sweet ideals and dear moralities, and scrambling sordidly for material benefits. Revolution, and Other Essays They remorselessly pulled down, or patched meanly and sordidly, the old work. At Large How interesting, and how sordidly picturesque against the background of romantic landscape, of scenic history! By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy Theatrical society, rather than the theatre, has made the lives of actors as we see them in these volumes, in many cases so tragic, even sordidly tragic. Essays from 'The Guardian' But who, except the most sordidly covetous, ever thought there was any rivalship between the love of greatness, honour, power, or between sensual appetites and self-love? Human Nature and Other Sermons And it is even better never to be happy than to be sordidly happy. Gala-days Centuries of it yet lying ahead of us; several sad Centuries, sordidly tumultuous, and good for little! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 For the Cut-rate had not cut his salary, which, sordidly speaking, ranked him star boarder at the Peek's. Roads of Destiny |
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