| 单词 | sordidness |
| 例句 | “Now and then,” a reviewer for The Chicago Tribune wrote, “there are flashes of insight and self-understanding amid sordidness and frequently unnecessary obscene realism.” Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z But you can have a good story without easy sordidness. Books for hard-to-shop-for tweens and teens, from Star Wars and Harley Quinn to gothic horror 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z By the time it’s through, the filmmakers, Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills, have poked into murders in places like New Jersey, Florida and New Mexico and taken viewers through a gantlet of sordidness. Review: ‘The Killing Season’ Examines Long Island Case 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It is wonderful to learn of Ms. Frey's work and success amidst the recent horrific sordidness of our politics in the US. America’s Pumpkin Queen Has a Request: Don’t Carve, Cook 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z You can imagine this is absolutely what this kind of place is really like – the sordidness, the chaos, the stained sheets, the pong, the petty hospital rules, the political correctness, the health and safety audits. Getting On and The Secret Life of the National Grid 2010-10-27T07:00:00Z He had, it seems, an almost gleeful appreciation of shabbiness, sordidness, decay, misshapenness, and irregularity—falling houses, untended gardens, the mess and slime on the Thames down toward Gravesend. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z This is what provokes the most despair for Muslims: At worst, Trump’s voters condoned this sordidness to varying degrees; at best, they were apathetic to it. Muslim in America under President Trump: We will endure this 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Intellectually he wishes to “gild what felt more and more like the sordidness” of his time with Mitko. Review: ‘What Belongs to You,’ a Story of Desire and Outcomes 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The average-guy drag fits nicely with his comic persona, which is of an average guy driven to peaks of towering rage by current affairs in all their sordidness. Theater Review: ‘Lewis Black: Running on Empty,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z But the exhibition, organized by Nick Irvin, resists indulging in sordidness or levying a value judgment, a pose that can feel admirably openhearted or frustratingly oblique. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z But Robinson’s story must hew to Dawson’s, so the climax and denouement belong to the downstairs circus of the governess, Hélène, and her paramour, Dr. McDow, who stain the manse with sordidness and frivolity. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Not that the scanty works arranged around them don’t do their best to conjure the art world’s sordidness. Art In Review: BJARNE MELGAARD: ‘Ideal Pole’ 2012-05-24T20:27:26Z But on “Housewives”? This level of sordidness is not what viewers are here for. Opinion | Hey, Bravo: Get the ‘Housewives’ criminals off my TV 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Preferences continue if the sordidness is obscured by a semantic fog. Opinion | Colleges will racially discriminate no matter how the Supreme Court rules 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z 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 Hollywood Bowl represents L.A. in all its naked splendor, idealism, commercialism, diversity, communal aspirations toward equality, social division, tackiness and even sordidness. Commentary: What the Hollywood Bowl's complicated history reveals about Los Angeles 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z For that matter, not one cent of public money or favor should go to any NFL owner until the league comes clean and stops acting as a protection racket for Snyder’s sordidness. Perspective | We see how Dan Snyder treats customers. Who would build him a stadium? 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z The sordidness began the moment Snyder bought the team in 1999 when his front office demanded the cheerleader uniforms be cut away until they were skimpy as pole dancers. Perspective | The NFL long has known what it has in Daniel Snyder. The league owns this scandal too. 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The dining room was a festive place, but the kitchen was almost Dickensian in its sordidness and gloom. My Life as a Child Chef 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z No matter who the Democratic nominee is, the sordidness of Trump’s tactics, like the crudeness of his invective, is a given. What a Biden-Trump Presidential Race Might Look Like 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z This week’s hearing lacked the sordidness of the Thomas hearing but made up for it in vitriol — both on the dais and in the viewing gallery. Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings feature wild accusations 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The picture purports to be a kind of noir comedy, with Connie depicted as a sugar junkie who snorts granular sugar through red licorice straws, and with snide one-liners leavening the sordidness. ‘The Happytime Murders’: a joyless, hard-R-rated puppet/human comedy 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Besides, it would create an extra benefit for the NCAA: Including more little guys helps distract folks from the sordidness of Division I men’s basketball. SNYDER: Hoops fun unsullied, for now, by FBI probe 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Despite the judgment their relationship might attract from their peers, or from the more easily scandalized members of the audience, Garrel presents it without scorn or sordidness. Philippe Garrel's 'Lover for a Day' plays out a delicate, wistful emotional triangle 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The sordidness of all of this will be sugarcoated with the hoary claim that lower tax rates will spur growth. Donald Trump's tax cuts for the rich won't make America great again | Joseph Stiglitz 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z That the target of this feeler — the candidate’s son — embraced such meddling rather than recoiling from it only adds to the sordidness of the episode. Opinion | The latest evidence of Trump’s unfitness may be the most revolting 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z She was oddly energized by the sordidness of her task. The Savagely Clever Feminist Behind “UnREAL” 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z It's this essential ambivalence we all feel about the urban landscape - that its sordidness and its beauty are somehow inseparable - that unites me with De Maupassant across both the Channel and the years. Staring at the Shard 2013-01-18T18:13:13Z We freeze our hearts by selfishness, and stifle them by sordidness. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Number 78 Grove Street was not an attractive place, but when she arrived she was too highly keyed to take note of its sordidness. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Above whatever coarseness and sordidness there may be in actual life, there rises the ideal of a finer kind of man, with gentler manners and truer speech and braver action. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z From where in all this sordidness did she get the inspiration? Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z When rain sets in, the sordidness of these towns is complete. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z But when youth had fled there ceased to be romance, and only sordidness was forthcoming. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z That earth-born sordidness which marked all slaves as common chattels, was being burnt out of our national life, as our basest national sin. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z And that no sordidness might pass therein He sentinelled the door with savage jinn, Invisible and with the flaming powers Of Sheol in their guarding scimitars. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z It needed the contrast of the vision to make her see the sordidness and squalor—the grim reality—of that long dark room, with its chaos of noise, its nerve-destroying "speed." Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z How many crimes have been committed in the name of religion! with what baseness and sordidness has it not been sincerely connected! Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Don't think of this as a bit of sordidness creeping in. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Before the base and foul their sordidness was brought to light. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z It was probably the contrast between them and the recent comfort he had enjoyed that forced home the sordidness of the present life. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z In the five years he had lived there he had been quite oblivious to its sordidness. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z And once again the horrible sordidness of these proceedings struck, as it seemed, his worse self, that part of himself that had all those weeks been uninspired by Martin. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z No, there was no sordidness in the teachings of Franklin. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z He was speaking with little nervous gestures, vehemently, and all the sensibility that the struggle had left in Brooke shrank from the sordidness of the compact he had made with him. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z He looms up in American History as a politician who glorified his craft, who kept his hands clean in all of the sordidness of material success. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Poverty, sordidness and the grim, constant struggle to live made his childhood and early days utterly devoid of the good sweet things. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Since his discovery of absinthe they had even become rather gross, and he congratulated himself on having seen the sordidness of mere swilling. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Quaint, perhaps, because of that singular beauty of face and skin which seemed so ill-assorted with the sordidness of her surroundings. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Reviewing the scene now, the sordidness of it gripped her, disgusted her. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z With elation he passed from the sordidness and the turmoil of the courtroom and daily pettiness of common political controversy to the championship of an all-mastering principle. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z His glance rested on Miss Bolton’s well groomed prettiness with a kind of tired relief, and the sordidness of his own surroundings became more apparent. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z A vague sordidness began to creep over him like mould. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z The girl looked at him quickly, divined the sordidness of his thoughts, and puckered her brows in a frown. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Nay the very sordidness which made a bargain for thirty pieces of silver has ever since been a part of the popular conception of the race. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z He is, as a matter of fact, mostly well to do, but the way he lives it is to be hoped will never in its sordidness be known to the other half of the world. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z He was losing sight of the romance of poverty, in the realisation of its sordidness. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z The boys are oblivious to the noise, the sordidness, their father's suffering. Diary of a separation 2011-08-05T23:04:08Z The sordidness and squalor of Canyon Pass was being from moment to moment etched more deeply on her brain. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z There is no time when the human race shows itself in such beauty and in such heartless sordidness as in the time of grief. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z We bear our share in picnics, though we grudge it, And show our grudging by our sordidness. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z They stood up like the teeth of a broken comb, and added to the sordidness of the picture. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z They correspond with the solid objects in the landscape, and are quite distinct from the atmospheric effects that can do so much to enhance the charm, or subdue the sordidness, of these solid objects. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Several entire books have been written to prove that sordidness and selfishness always possess and soon destroy a nation which does not have frequent wars. Teaching the Child Patriotism 2011-07-03T02:00:11.747Z And yet, how dare I claim to be free from sordidness, when all my thoughts and hopes and daily life are now bent on winning money? The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z He was not unconscious of the inhumanity and sordidness of this proceeding, and therefore endeavoured to disguise it by the usual pretences. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z You see, if I didn't know the whole game was lying in the palm of my hand I'd just simply sicken at the sordidness of it. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z It did not lead him to hide, it only led him to account for, his father’s sordidness. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The sordidness of life, and the meanness of human nature, pressed around her. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The darkness hid the squalor and the dull sordidness of the long straight stretch of Kingsland Road. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Arcadia needed bees, but it needed Orpheus and his lute also, and the gods had punished the bee-man for his sordidness. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z But the whole enterprise hasn’t done much to compete with the delightful wackiness of the N.C.A.A. men’s tournament — or the overflow of sordidness from college football. Leading Off: Where the Excitement Never Began 2011-03-30T17:08:05Z The sordidness and suffering of it all makes me feel I simply can't stay quietly over there in London. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z None of us can deny this obligation; and none of us can discharge it as we ought, if our contributions are made in the questionable coin of sordidness and nature’s perversion. Fishing and Shooting Sketches 2011-02-23T03:00:33.463Z He is repelled by the sordidness of his environment or the suffering he has had in life. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z At all events, there is no great sordidness or squalor perpetuated in Dumas’ pages. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z Much sordidness and much selfishness in old age come to the man or woman who has not a cultivated imagination. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z She has to convince voters that the sordidness was all just make-believe. The Smackdown Candidate 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z The charges of sordidness and mean penny-wisdom are not borne out by any of the real facts of his life. The True Benjamin Franklin A brave old toper! with something pathetic in this last defiance, for all its sordidness. A Blot on the Scutcheon How ignorant of this great world-city, its life, its customs, its fineness, its sordidness her words proclaimed her to be—how dependent they proclaimed her to be! The Belovéd Traitor There was nothing of the majesty or panoply of death here, but the very sordidness of the surroundings made me resolve to guard the new dignity of that figure. The Window at the White Cat But perhaps not even this close friend knew how keenly the poet must have felt the narrowness of his life, the sordidness of his home, and the humiliation of his poverty. The Home Life of Poe To Happy, this morning the murky room which was both kitchen and dining hall seemed the epitome of sordidness, with its newspaper-plastered walls and creaking puncheon floor. The Tempering On the futility of bookish learning, the ugliness and sordidness of town life, he is always discoursing. The Vagabond in Literature That life of sordidness and ignominy was left behind, the unclean spirit exorcised and cast forth! Lafcadio Hearn They found life expressed there in horror and beauty, in sordidness and nobility, and to reveal this in literature was to some extent to create a new world for the imagination. The Book of This and That He felt a sudden revulsion for his old home, its sordidness, its slow piling of penny upon penny with no greater outlook upon life than a new rifle or a Victrola in the best room. The Shadow He had been unspeakably pained by the sordidness and waste of energy and peace that quarrelling had entailed. Years of Plenty But no man ever did or ever will do from mere sordidness such a feat as Pizarro's. The Spanish Pioneers Grandeur, nobility, impressiveness, and, by inversion, sordidness, bestiality, and awkward ugliness fall easily within his ken. Interpreters Did he wish to live again terrible years of sacrifice and sordidness? Fairfax and His Pride Lisbeth it was, Lisbeth grown old and more pitiful than ever; a ragged, unkempt being—yet strangely lifted above the sordidness of her rags and her beggar's life by her insanity. The Torch Bearer This chanter of birth and death, disgusted by the banality of existence, has given us, under the title, "The Little Demon," a pathetic picture of human baseness and sordidness, which cannot be read without emotion. Contemporary Russian Novelists But at sixteen she came home 'for good'; very much for evil, poor little Eily would have said, as she realised in its full sordidness the grinding manner of life which was to be hers. An Isle in the Water It was full of sordidness and discomfort; it seemed in one hour to have stripped from their lives the romance of youth. Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 Such is the nice artifice which colours, with a pretended love of his country, the sordidness of the political intriguer, giving clean names to filthy things. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Thompson had sounded, and become familiar with, the depths of social degradation in all its external aspects of sordidness. The Hound of Heaven His eyes had been narrowed to see the pitfalls which lined his path, to the stumbling-blocks, the briers, the indescribable sordidness of his personal position and his immediate surroundings. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel Thus does the pomp of state make way for the sordidness of trade, and even the wealthy corporation of the City of London was not above turning a penny or two as additional revenue. Dickens' London Despite the sordidness of the man, Josè was profoundly grateful to him for this information. Carmen Ariza All the aching pain of her proposed future came over her with its dirty sordidness. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author Weston seemed to Lavendar a very fresh and delightful spot at that moment, although had he been in a different mood its sordidness only would have struck him. Robinetta Here was Amaryllis, full of poetic feeling and half a painter at heart, full of generous sentiments—what a nature to be ground down in the sordidness of married poverty! Amaryllis at the Fair With no class of society did Dickens deal more successfully than with the sordidness of crime. Dickens' London Nor could he readily associate the voice, which again and again he could not distinguish from the flute-like tones of the organ, with the sordidness and grime of material, fleshly existence. Carmen Ariza But she's not a bit sordid; she only counts with the sordidness of others. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Ca�eri, frail as was the protection that could be derived from a single man, still fondly clung to hope with the sordidness of a cowardly mind. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. It seems that it is sentiment which redeems our lives from sordidness and selfishness, and occasionally gives us a glimpse of the upper country. In Times Like These Truly the light was sweet that evening, for any eyes; to Diana's vision the sunbeams were solid gold, though refined out of all sordidness, and earth was heaped up and brimming over with riches. Diana It is scarcely an attractive town, in spite of its picturesque sordidness, made the more so by the smoke arising from many belching factory chimneys. The Cathedrals of Northern France When I awoke ’twas to disgust with the bed and room in which I lay––with the smell and dirt of the place––the poverty and sordidness, to which I was not used. The Cruise of the Shining Light Into the glowing music of Wagner my son read lessons in renunciation, the sordidness of the lust for gold, the sublimity of pure human love, the redemptive power of self-sacrifice. War Letters of a Public-School Boy And so I feel that I am fortified enough to defy all external sordidness. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real She saw simply a chance of a change, an escape from the monotony and sordidness of her present life. The Carroll Girls The genial landlord, who had followed in my footsteps, rushed to anticipate me, and when I could breathe more freely, I found something of the tragedy that had been swallowed in the sordidness. Ghetto Comedies It ought also to mean 'generous and high-minded sentiments upon political subjects guided by a highly instructed, large-minded and impartial intellect, briefly the opposite of sordidness, vulgarity, and bigotry.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice He saw the horror of the City Road, he realized the ghastly cold sordidness of the tram-car in which he sat. The Rainbow And when contact with selfishness or sordidness has soiled the soul's garments, dulled its instruments, and lowered its standards, then conscience comes in to freshen the ideals and to smite vice and vulgarity. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character As a rule, like the butterflies, she saw only the sunshine, and the green things growing, and nothing of the sordidness and neglect of everything about her. The Carroll Girls When he portrayed the lower phases of city life, it was the humor of that life he caught, and not its sordidness; its kindliness, and not its brutality. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 But I had no desire to ponder over the sordidness of my surroundings. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 She would have remained, serene, beautiful in sympathy, outside his calamity, untouched by its sordidness, its taint. The Combined Maze Limitless courage and contempt of death was displayed in defence of an ideal, the colossal proportions of which dwarf everything in history, and which alone suffices to redeem the sordidness of the nineteenth century. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals It is because in war sordidness and petty worries are eliminated; because the one great and ever-present fear, the fear of death, reduces all other considerations to their proper values. Life in a Tank The light fell across her face under the dark brim of her hat, and touched its beauty into something vividly apart from the shadows and sordidness of the place, yet paler than its sunlit brilliancy. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories She hated it all,—the grime and sordidness, the drunken men and screaming children; and her eyes flashed as she talked of it, and a flush came to her cheeks. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad It was the beauty of holiness—the beauty of wholeness—the wholeness of life, the saving of the whole life from the sin and sordidness of self and thereby giving supreme satisfaction to God. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit "The effrontery of slaveholders was matched by the sordidness of the Eastern members." . . . . Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject "Don't you let go of Burroughs," he counseled, with brutal sordidness. A Man of Two Countries Nothing is omitted which can give a notion, not merely of the sinfulness, but of the sordidness of dishonesty. Dante: His Times and His Work The conflict never ceased, nor was there hope of emerging from its sordidness into the high places where were breathing space and vision. The Wall Between There is a perversity and a dash of sordidness which are both wholly un-Shakesperian. A History of Elizabethan Literature And Whistler, by the witchery of his brush and his needle, has transmuted the confusion and sordidness and filth of this Thames-side into exquisite emotion. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life We shall see how, in the midst of what the world calls immorality and sordidness, this quality in him was ever present; even when it led to harshness to persons or facts. An Anarchist Woman “Wants people to hunt for money he thinks may be hidden in his room, and yet 275 is so far above sordidness that he can’t hear it spoken of!” At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern From all the seeming sordidness of daily life one turns to this as proof incontestable that humanity is at heart infinitely kinder and better and less selfish than it esteems itself. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror He was about to praise the country for its freedom from sordidness and artificiality, when Flint, who had heard him before, interrupted. Chimney-Pot Papers With a sharp emotional sincerity, she rebuked herself for such sordidness, mocked herself for assuming that she was already rich. The Job An American Novel To exchange the rack-rented but limitless fields of Irish landlordism for the rickety and equally rack-rented tenements, with the checkerboard streets, where all must keep moving, is only adding sordidness to spare sadness. An Anarchist Woman There was no sordidness in their minute economy; no chill of poverty; they were saving for an excursion to paradise. The Innocents A Story for Lovers Vicious women have few vices, and sordidness is not usually one of them. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly But, increasing in seriousness, it must not be allowed to increase in sordidness. Mushrooms on the Moor Miss Joline’s clean litheness, her gaiety that had never been made timorous or grateful by defeat or sordidness, her whirlwind of nonsense, blended in a cocktail for Una at dinner. The Job An American Novel I think," May went on, "I think it must have been something really high and fine in him that made the sordidness of it all seem so intolerable. A Venetian June And it was too artistic, too far above the sordidness of commercialism, to put any prices on the menu-cards. The Innocents A Story for Lovers I am afraid I have given the impression that our life at this time was solely given over to cupidity and sordidness; and that idea I may not be able to remove. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic We were above the town, hidden by height from its sordidness, and we looked far into mountain-tops where white clouds loitered on the June-day peace. David Malcolm My companion held his rose before him as if it were a charm against the sordidness about him. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Knowing nothing of the day's work, how could she conceive its sordidness? Mistress Anne His nomination, however, was only secured by cautious and timely diplomacy, and potent appeals to his sordidness, in the shape of assurances that he should have the office for a second term. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 There is a materialistic evil corresponding to the prudential organization of life which is known as meanness, vulgarity, or sordidness. The Moral Economy She had come up, indeed, that afternoon, haunted by a passionate desire to get the money into her hands; yet the mere sordidness of "expectations" counted for less in the matter than one would suppose. Bessie Costrell There seemed a stark sordidness in the situation that repelled me. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance There are some artists of our own day, who, after a serious survey of their surroundings, take pleasure in painting misery, the sordidness of poverty, and the dunghill of Lazarus. The Devil's Pool Though happy for a short time at getting into the stir of actual life, the routine and sordidness soon palled and he began to fret in the harness. The Short-story There will thus be a formalistic series of errors: asceticism, sentimentalism, anarchism, mysticism; and a materialistic series: overindulgence, sordidness, bigotry or egoism, worldliness. The Moral Economy She saw the whole foolish, irrational, Quixotic scheme in its true light; and flesh and blood shrank from a surrender which had no faintest touch of love—or even passion—to dignify sordidness. The Making of a Soul This splendid spirit is betrayed by the sordidness of modern life. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 In no one of the poems I am thinking of, is the inherent sordidness of everything in the persons supposed, except the one poetic trait then under treatment, quite forgotten. Figures of Several Centuries And all the heroic and passionate grandeur of Parnell’s furious career shrivelled up to mere sordidness before the inability of one narrow-minded and ignorant but vigorous woman to appreciate its quality. Clayhanger Mom Wallis had learned how to let the glory gleam through all the hard sordidness of her life, and make earth brighter for those about her. A Voice in the Wilderness There are among them men fired by enthusiasm, men fed by fanaticism, men influenced by sordidness; but, as a whole, they are earnest thinkers and stern actors. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Bethell has been described as a "sullen and wilful man," a republican at heart and one that "turned from the ordinary way of a sheriff's living into the extreme of sordidness." London and the Kingdom - Volume II Up, up, up, they flew out of reach of bullets and all the sordidness of earth; and when the meadow became a blur Geraldine felt like a disembodied spirit, so great was her exaltation. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date To live forever in this sordidness, to have no reprieve from the doom of sin, no truce from the struggle of sin, would be a fearful fate. Friendship I shall show that the sordidness of the struggle has not unfitted me to use the victory. The Plum Tree Nothing he had ever read conveyed anything of the plain sordidness of it,—the unrelieved pall of it which burdened like the weary dead stretch of an alkali desert. The Seventh Noon What struck me principally on arrival was the battered sordidness of the place and the filthy state of the roads, on which the mud was well up to the ankles. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry When I deplored the sordidness of the world she laughed, and called me "poor fellow!" The Miraculous Revenge Little Blue Book #215 Do I imply that they are free from sordidness and commercialism? Europe After 8:15 And so I drifted, drifted down from high empyreans of great ideals and lofty speculations into a humdrum life, that was only saved from sordidness by the sacred duties of my office. My New Curate The fear of perpetual imprisonment increases my melancholy; the indignities which I suffer augment it; and the squalor of my beard, my hair, and habit, the sordidness and filth, exceedingly annoy me. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 Cicero, it must be avowed, is convicted from his own mouth of vanity, inconstancy, sordidness, jealousy, malice, selfishness, and timidity. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II It cannot be doubted by men of penetration, that spiritualism, in its birth and maturity, is associated with sordidness and wickedness. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales They brought out with marvellous accuracy all its traits, except, indeed, the underlying strain of poetry, which, while it redeems plainness, sordidness, and even coarseness, is as true to life as is its veriest prose. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art But when youth had fled there ceased to be romance, and only sordidness was forthcoming. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends He disliked the crowding, the sordidness and vulgarity which, to his mind, attended it; and it seemed to him that public gambling was an unintelligent, greedy vice. The Guests Of Hercules It wandered in a sort of haphazard fashion through a sun-bathed universe washed clean of sordidness and meanness. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North She could put away the unpleasantness of the immediate past, discount the possible sordidness of the future, and lose herself in dreams. North of Fifty-Three Again, as the garments of the daily task fell from her, Joyce felt the sordidness and fearsomeness depart. Joyce of the North Woods Now he said to himself that she would sooner desert a friend to please him than sacrifice a fraction of her income; and the discovery cast a stain of sordidness on their whole relation. The Fruit of the Tree Just within he paused and looked about as if seeing the sordidness of his home for the first time. The She Boss A Western Story They passed up a narrow street redeemed from sordidness by a domed koubbah or two; and from the roofed balconies of cafés maures, Arabs looked down on them with large, dreamy eyes like clouded stars. The Golden Silence The reader will not see what I have intended to paint, if he gets only an impression of caution, of economy, of sordidness and fatigue. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View There is not in it, however, any keenness of vision, any deep reading of life, any great underlying emotion, to relieve its abject sordidness. Irish Plays and Playwrights Borrow’s Gypsies are wild and uncoddled and without sordidness, and will not soon be superseded. George Borrow The Man and His Books No instance of their sordidness or tyranny ever stole a murmur from her. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Religion is thus brought in to refine and hallow the sweet necessities and emotions of life, to cheer its weariness, and to exalt its sordidness. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country He watched them wistfully, seeing for the first time their sordidness, seeing what he himself had been, more sordid than any, because of his greater opportunities. The Tin Soldier There is no gusto, no beauty, no intensity of bitterness even, to make its sordidness interesting in any other than a pathological way. Irish Plays and Playwrights No! we find his actions narrowed down to the sordidness of the miser, the avariciousness of the extortioner. The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution At first the memory was a disgust; the very presence of the girl, and her tale of struggle, made me realize the sordidness of this plot in which I was involved. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune Somehow or another the sense of sordidness, which presently began to affect Frank so profoundly, descended on him for the first time that night. None Other Gods How could he set, as it were, all of this sordidness against her sweetness? The Tin Soldier She dies, Hyperion comes to Germany where his aesthetic Greek soul is severely jarred by the sordidness, apathy and insensibility of these "barbarians." Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry If the world were not each year renewed, refreshed, glorified by the magnificent honor and fine expectancies of its young men, it would soon become simply fiendish in its sordidness, selfishness, and baseness. The Young Man and the World Then the sordidness of the world lies far beneath you and your great democracy is truly come—the democracy of Nature. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I She does not live amidst the clouds, or abandon herself to mystic excitement; she is raised above the sordidness, but not above the concerns, of earth; above its disquietudes, but not above its cares. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies The Church partook of the general sordidness of the age; it was an age of great material prosperity, but of moral and spiritual poverty, such as hardly finds a parallel in our history. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century It had to be secret, not only because the sordidness of wagging tongues would have spoilt it so, but because my life would have been so unbearable in the world. Secret Bread The saddest feature of the South African episode was its sordidness. Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker He was precocious for his age, and his mixing with natives had taught him some of the more bitter truths of life: the meanness and the sordidness of it. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling In this hidden land of Olaf's would be life stripped of its sordidness, love free from the blight of cynicism and disillusion—faith, firm in its nearness to God and the wonder of His works. The Gay Cockade This was the sordidness of slavery, its temptation to the meanest passions, the lowest lusts. Children of the Market Place She feels the sordidness of constantly being obliged to urge the industrial view of life. Democracy and Social Ethics If he believes in freedom for men and women, why was all this necessary? the sordidness of the public clamour? the divorce court?... oh, my poor, dear, sweet, wild poet-boy, you're in for it! Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The effrontery of the slave-masters was matched by the sordidness of the Eastern members, who yielded again. American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) They observed a medium between costliness and sordidness. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 I don't mean that you will ever be a great etcher, though one cannot tell; I mean that all this turbulence, sordidness, American hurry, waste, vulgarity, agitation, politics, did not belong to you. Children of the Market Place If a factory girl catches sight of the vicious life at all, she sees its miserable victims in all the wretchedness and sordidness of their trade in the poorer parts of the city. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil The noise, the sordidness, the witchlike matron annoy me. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls The master, deep in the thought of creative work, was, no doubt, to a great extent unconscious of this sordidness. Beethoven As the senator from Fraser had said, there was really nothing worse than Thatcher, with his breweries and racing-stable, his sordidness and vulgarity. A Hoosier Chronicle Dryly and in clean-cut strokes he showed her the sordidness of which he had been the victim and left her to judge for herself of its evil effect on his character. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West As if to give just a shade of sordidness to the strife there must needs arise a money difficulty between the two rival boards of leaders. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist The surroundings into which they are born furnish little chance for them to develop their minds and their tastes, but their souls suffer nothing from working in squalour and sordidness. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls For her it was the last depth of sordidness and the commonplace. The Lion's Share The pettiness and sordidness of most of the politicians he met struck him humorously, but the tone of his articles was uniformly laudatory. A Hoosier Chronicle I had seen it in its dirt and horror and sordidness, this thing they were going to. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front There will be opposition between the sordidness of the mere individual will and the divine will, but that is because the spiritual life has not been gained. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life Her heart was uplifted from the sordidness of earth, and she had a sensation of freedom which was as delightful as it was indescribable. The Magician The author, with dry, white lips, had been recounting a series of sordid symptoms, and, as the recital grew, their sordidness seemed suddenly to strike him with a mighty disgust. Flames It is well enough for you to be above sordidness, so could I be with your purse and your prospects. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 He felt conscious of an enormous shame at the sordidness of the affair, and at the same time of a kind of hopeless recklessness. Lord of the World No one will lay to my charge such sordidness as he may, Tullius, to you, when five slaves follow you, a praetor, along the Tiburtian way, carrying a traveling kitchen, and a vessel of wine. The Works of Horace The only redeeming point in his character is his self-denial—a truly noble characteristic when associated with a generous disposition—which, however, in his case, loses its value through the sordidness of its aim. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters It means the mixing of ignoble blood with good, a gradual lowering of ideals until a general level of sordidness, individualism in its most selfish and self-seeking form, and political corruption, are the inevitable results. The Conqueror His was never the disinterested love of the beautiful that certain lucky collectors retain through all the sordidness of the quest. The Collectors Offended by such base sordidness in one whom he had supposed to be an honourable woman, Gulfardo passed from ardent love to something very like hatred, and cast about how he might flout her. The Decameron, Volume II A person will be accounted decent, if he offends not by sordidness, and is not despicable through either extreme of conduct. The Works of Horace It has not the sordidness of gold, as has Wall Street, but it is the embodiment of the natural ore that the ragged prospector finds. The Art of the Moving Picture To prove the sordidness of the man, one critic tells, with visage awfully solemn, how Turner once gave an engraving to a friend and then, after a year, sent demanding it back. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great It was a repellent street; it was out even of the little world where sordidness is at any rate dignified by tradition and anaemic ideals can support each other in close companionship. The Price of Love And yet this gentle spirit who would not break a bruised reed—who went about doing good—was wont to blaze forth with hot indignation against sordidness and systematized injustice. In His Image The rough sailors, the thugs and criminals that frequent the "Hole in the Wall" Inn lose none of their picturesqueness, nor any of their sordidness either, from Mr. Morrison's treatment of them. Red Saunders His Adventures West & East She had come up, indeed, that afternoon, haunted by a passionate desire to get the money into her hands; yet the mere sordidness of 'expectations' counted for less in the matter than one would suppose. The Story of Bessie Costrell She could have run for miles, or for hours, away! away from all this sordidness, this avarice, this deceit and cruelty! The Nest of the Sparrowhawk In any other land, they would be held to represent slovenliness, sordidness, and want of capacity. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) Their stunted appearance is doubtless due largely to poor food, the irregularity of nourishment, and the sordidness of their lives in general. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment The dark and evil passions of his soul, His secret plot, and sordidness complete, His hate, his purposing, Christ knew the whole, And still in love he stooped and washed his feet. The Book of American Negro Poetry The record I have to make is one of sordidness, levity, and heartlessness. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 But night will take all the ugliness into its arms and hide it; the sordidness and griminess will disappear and fairyland will come forth for a playground. Ethel Morton's Enterprise He saw that Bedient had been handled a bit, and had only a vague idea that he was embroiled in a scandal, the sordidness of which was apt to reach every ear but the principals'. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel There is nothing in it of sordidness for sordidness' sake nor have the realists any philosophy of an unhappy ending. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge She reproached them with the sordidness of their conduct in becoming the tools of her vile cousin, who had deprived her of her reason, and would never be contented till he had murdered her. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are It was smaller than I had expected, and plain and mean to the point of sordidness. The Red Thumb Mark The world, bad as it is, has been much worse than now for authors; and through the great reading public, there are many generous souls, whose views are not confined to sordidness and self. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers She had banished the one encroachment of sordidness. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel They made this charge against English fiction; they also retorted the charge brought by native writers and their readers against the French of foulness, sordidness and pessimism in their view of life. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge But this prejudice against the British officers, founded first on their sordidness, then, secondly, fed by their insolence, was, thirdly and lastly, matured by their cruelty. The Life of General Francis Marion If you don't tell him he will never notice, and I simply couldn't think of him living in the terrible squalor and sordidness which Mr. Philander and I found. Tarzan of the Apes No room here for all the sordidness, meanness, and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence. Burning Daylight If you can keep some of the pictures we are giving you of the wonderful happiness we possess it will help you in the sordidness of your own life. The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation The record I have to make is one of sordidness, levity, and interest. The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 How had she read romance and high-mindedness and intellect into the personality so frankly flaunting itself in all its narrow sordidness, in all its poverty of real thought and real feeling? The Cost She was in a mood of high scorn for sordidness—a mood induced by the spectacle of the shameful manners of Conover, Frank, and his wife. The Price She Paid He knew some who had dragged along for twenty years in the pursuit of a fame which always escaped them till they sunk into sordidness and alcoholism. Of Human Bondage He sees through them, and all that he sees is their frailty, their meagreness, their sordidness, their pitifulness. John Barleycorn She seems a hard-working, staunch little soul, and all that relieves the sordidness of her life and lightens the dreariness of her work is the 'theayter,' as she calls it. Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley And Victor is willing to put up with all the sordidness, the vulgarity of the divorce court, the lawyers, evidences of guilt ... tout ça est dégoûtant. Redemption and two other plays And the quality of its sordidness is something that does not bear thinking of, a quality that has entered Italian life now, if it was not there before. Twilight in Italy As sordidness carried to the pitch of brutality is often imputed to the French peasant, let me relate an incident that occurred hereabouts, not long before my visit. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" As will be seen from the following sketch sordidness and aspiration oft times, I am almost tempted to say, and most often, go hand in hand. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne The sordidness and the horror of war have never been so fully revealed as during this past year. The World Decision Without a certain sordidness in his surroundings he was never quite comfortable, never quite himself; and at those places you are obliged to drink nothing stronger than coffee or tea. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons If the main point was violence or sordidness or baseness, he saw the characteristics which relieved and partially redeemed it. The Great God Success I will now cite two facts illustrating the bright side of peasant property in its humblest phase, where we have been told to expect sordidness, even brutality. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Here was no touch of sordidness or suggestion of "La Terre," instead a delightful picture of rustic dignity and ease. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne But there was something untouched by the sordidness of her calling about this ample Rabelaisian woman. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago This New York that dabbles its slime of sordidness and snobbishness on every flower in the garden of human nature. The Deluge And he fell to despising himself for the kind of exultation that filled him, its selfishness, its sordidness, the absence of all high enthusiasm. The Great God Success The dust and the heat, the jostling crowds, the banging and rattling, the bare, hideous streets—and above it all the wild, rampant vulgarity—the sordidness, the cheapness, the chaffering! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Inside the camps one felt a still more cruel desolation—that of sordidness and animalism. King Coal : a Novel Already the amusing aspect of the affair had begun to fade, and her hilarity was giving way to a tired distaste for the sordidness of the whole business. The Adventures of Sally I was not aware that America had yet enough of age and old misfortune, crime, sordidness, that accumulate with it, to have produced spiders like this. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about him, his dream had had its usual effect—it had intensified the sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold. The Prince and the Pauper, Part 1. I have come down to the bare bed-rock of sordidness—I must have money—money!—It is everything in this world to me. The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow She makes me ashamed of things I have written about the sordidness of her race, but I shall vainly seek to atone for them by open-handedness to her. Suburban Sketches Then let us show our loyalty By aiming sordidness to spurn. The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects Can one expect them to escape the contagion of its cramped pretentiousness, its dingy narrowness, its shy privacy of social degradation, its essential sordidness and inefficiency? Mankind in the Making The city loomed up on the opposite bank, and its black walls looked fateful, mysterious, losing their sordidness in the moonlight that idealizes and embellishes everything. The Reign of Greed He paints life in its grayness and sordidness and dull mediocrity. Halleck's New English Literature The end, my lord, take my word for it, would abundantly sanctify the apparent sordidness of the means. Four Early Pamphlets Nor was the dainty neatness less remote from the cracked delf and huddled sordidness of his old home. Hyacinth They seemed to have inherited all the vice, the bad language, the ugly sordidness with which the place reeked. The Cinema Murder But the head mistress was one who saw life full of possibilities, and so she saw a garden even in the sordidness. The Child under Eight She made his small earnings go a great way, and banished from his life the sordidness of poverty. The Earth Trembled I become lost, I forget the world and its sordidness. Man on the Box The poet can rise superior to the sordidness of skilly. Without Prejudice They are protesting against its sordidness and crudity far more effectively than the cloistered reader who recites Shelley, saying "Why can't they write as he does." Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism It seemed impossible—yet—and here his big charity spoke—all of the choice spirit of the girl cannot have been swallowed up in the sordidness of a selfish, old age. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness The pity of it; the shame of it—that they should be able to descend to such sordidness! Love's Pilgrimage The stagnation and sordidness of life in the country offended him at every step. A House of Gentlefolk Thus we see that the revolt against marriage is by no means only a revolt against its sordidness as a survival of sex slavery. Getting Married The gesture atoned somewhat for the sordidness of her situation, and even corrected the faults of her attire. The Old Wives' Tale Rather, on this afternoon, she beheld with unusual clarity her present general life, and that of her family, feeling more keenly than usual the utter sordidness of their whole scheme of existence. The Auction Block And Thyrsis was a student and a bright lad, and he was welcome there; he might have spread his wings and flown away from this sordidness. Love's Pilgrimage But that which would have been sordid in her, did not seem to her to have any stain of sordidness for him. He Knew He Was Right Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit; for here flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented. Revolution, and Other Essays Alix again felt daunted for a second by the sheer ugliness and sordidness of the matter, but she returned to the charge bravely. Sisters But she could not play—a child could not play in all the strangeness and sordidness. Mr. Achilles Their existence was made up of endless sordidness, of dreary commonplace, that opposed them with its passive inertia where it did not actively attack them. Love's Pilgrimage The shabbiness and disorder and a sort of material sordidness were more marked than ever, but Susan was keenly conscious of some subtle, touching charm, unnoticed heretofore, that seemed to flavor the old environment to-night. Saturday's Child All about me were still the same sordidness and wretchedness, and up above me was still the same paradise waiting to be gained; but the ladder whereby to climb was a different one. Revolution, and Other Essays And the joy of this compensates for all the bitterness of knowledge and the sordidness of our humanity. Women in Love The sordidness of it would be too disenchanting. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Does he seek to drive us to aspiration by the portrayal of sordidness, to disinterestedness by the picture of selfishness, to illusion by disillusionment? Arms and the Man I omit the madnesses of Caligula's delights, and the execrable sordidness of those of Tiberius. Cowley's Essays By the time the short afternoon had faded into the early evening, the school stood, to the eyes of all familiar with the common sordidness of its everyday dress, a picture of artistic loveliness. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry He was heart sick of the pettiness and sordidness of the farm life, whose horizon seemed to be that of the hundred acres or so that comprised it. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail The sordidness of her home life must be something unimaginable. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga The longer he stood absorbing this farm scene, with all its sordidness, dullness, triviality, and its endless drudgeries, the lower his heart sank. Main-Travelled Roads He had been, as he said, often in the crypt at Carstone; and well he knew the sordidness of the chamber of death. The Man He took the one lamp that showed the discomfort and sordidness of his abode, and approaching Zenobia held it up, so as to gain the more perfect view of her, from top to toe. The Blithedale Romance Vicious women have few vices, and sordidness is not usually one of them. Novel Notes Oh! your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none So long as something took her for a little while away from the sordidness of home, its stale odors, its untidiness, its querulous inmates. A Poor Wise Man ‘The more need to know of sordid things; if sordidness plays so important a part in the tragedy of their lives!’ The Man Out of all this sordidness and mystery there remained at least something in life for him to do. The Vanished Messenger The play is redeemed from sordidness by the costumes. Essays in Little On the sea there always rose up in him a broad, warm feeling, that took possession of his whole soul, and somewhat purified it from the sordidness of daily life. Creatures That Once Were Men Then, under all the blasphemy, the talk about women, the surface sordidness of their daily lives and thoughts, there was one instinct common to all, one love, one hidden purity. A Poor Wise Man To every woman must come sometime the bitter awakening from her dreamworld to the real world in all its sordidness and selfishness. The Heritage of the Sioux The infinite dreariness and sordidness of their life oppressed him in spite of his fundamental belief that, as a family, they were somehow remarkable. Night and Day There is less pressure, less sordidness, less savagery. War of the Classes He spoke of his birth in the working class, and of the sordidness and wretchedness of his environment, where flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented. The Iron Heel In an environment made up largely of sordidness and wretchedness they had kept themselves unsullied and wholesome. The Game The screaming medley of San Francisco, with its restless shipping, belching factories, and thundering traffic, did not confuse her; instead, she comprehended swiftly the pitiful sordidness of Twenty Mile and the skin-lodged Toyaat village. The Faith of Men He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall. Martin Eden For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered. The Iron Heel |
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