Sentence examples for bit sordid from inspiring English sources

"The whole story is a bit sordid," DeeDee Gordon reflected one afternoon last week.

"I think at the moment my life is a little bit sordid.

"Pro-golf has skins matches where Stanfordesque sums are awarded or witheld on the basis of one putt - nobody seems to suffer breakdowns, even if it's a bit sordid," points out Gary Naylor, always on the lookout for relevant parallels.

It's bizarre because I'd done my share of horror films and dramas with directors trying to get me to take my kit off and I didn't want to, but it wasn't in the slightest bit sordid... he was just totally respectful".

But for many refugee advocates the whole thing is a bit sordid.

I know it sounds a little bit sordid or disgusting, but I think anyone would be attracted to it out of curiosity.

Ms. Sugden found this comic style thoroughly enjoyable, unlike that of the situation comedies today, she said in the Teletronic interview: "I find it a bit, well, sordid, and it's not my scene — bad language and who's in whose bed".

Writers of creative nonfiction have in the last few years been guilty of similar crimes, though usually they tell tales a bit more sordid than getting in a car wreck, meeting God and having a dialogue with the devil.

THE one dignified bit of the sordid Florida recount was Al Gore's concession speech, with its resonant ending: "It's time for me to go".

This raw competitive energy can come to feel a bit grim or sordid — and, watching it, we might feel like voyeurs to a scene of cruelty: the agony of defeat, and all that.

Football's news stayed a bit on the sordid side, with Oakland Raiders Coach Tom Cable reportedly getting a jump on midseason insanity by punching an assistant coach and Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb suggesting his team stock up on convicted and potential felons by adding receiver Plaxico Burress to the fold.