His Krapp is a dazed, grubby man of mechanical movements and saucer eyes that seem permanently fixed on some inward horizon.
Last night, I dreamt I was alone with a scary, grubby man.
He spent his life serving the law, but now he's just a man, a grubby little man who watched porn on a publicly monitored computer.
Inside a partitioned cubicle sat a grubby old man on a grubby chair chewing a grubby, unsanitary cigar and reading a grubby copy of The New York Post.
She said that she put it down at the time to inappropriate behaviour by a "grubby old man".
Disguised as a grubby old man, King played with a cloth rat stuffed with balloons and hung a collection of unusual props, as well as his own leg, on a clothesline".
"The Ballad of Lucy Whipple" opens with the conventions of the western in place: grubby men drinking in a saloon, a brawl breaking out.
Crouching behind a delivery van in an alley off St Ann's Square, a grubby-faced man cheerily says hello but adds that he can't talk.
Spies were known to be either grubby men seeking money or else idealists with staring eyes.
LaBute crafts his dialogue very well, of course, but his characters are almost indistinguishable, and the constant stream of grubby men and needy women soon blur into one another.
