Sentence examples for disreputable world from inspiring English sources
Mr. Shaye may live like Hollywood royalty, but his roots are in New York retail and in the nervy, disreputable world of grindhouses and exploitation pictures.
The last time this happened to the lurid, fast-paced, gleefully disreputable world of comics, in the late 1980s, the adoption of adult themes and situations turned out to be a blind alley.
After all, some of this book unfolds glamorously in "a disreputable world of sports cars and drinks in the afternoon and shady business deals, a violent world in which one was liable to be set upon in dark alleyways by silent, hard-breathing men with cudgels".
Where Melville had made his mark with literary adaptations -- a novel of the German occupation, "Le Silence de la Mer," by Jean Vercors, then of Jean Cocteau's "Enfants Terribles" -- "Bob le Flambeur" took him in an entirely different, more disreputable direction: the world of grungy American B-movies and the pulpy paperbacks of the French "Serie Noire".
Last Friday, that disreputable female, the world's second largest iron ore miner, announced it had exercised its option to back out of the Chinalco deal by paying the Chinese company a break fee of $195 million.
This is a baffling and forbidding world of disreputable international shakedowns And.
By Ogden Nash The New Yorker, September 20 , 1941P. 36 This is a baffling and forbidding world of disreputable international shakedowns And View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Ian Parker.
She revels in a sleazy, disreputable downtown milieu, the same world that fascinated Andy Warhol and Lou Reed.
So what does the world's most disreputable billionaire do with his ill-gotten gains?
It's not just criminals getting involved; some of the world's most disreputable military groups are also joining the hunt.
Kyle's fate is as much a product of cinema history as it is of television news or the disreputable nature of the financial world (the final scene recalls Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless).
