Sentence examples for feel sordid from inspiring English sources

His turn inspired Pauline Kael to write that "you may feel sordid watching a scene in which a drunken, cowardly lout," played by Mr. Robinson, "slobbers while he's being kicked and butchered".

Stripped of their innocence, the pretty moments from earlier in the episode now feel sordid, desperate.

Against this backdrop, my act felt sordid.

It makes you, as a participant in its games, feel silly, sordid and finally scared.

Looking at the flayed house, even in passing, you feel the sordid burden of unsolicited intimacy.

With their juxtaposition of the cosmic and the mundane, the Russian meteor videos reminded me of Tolstoy's description, in "War and Peace," of the comet of 1812: Only looking up at the sky did Pierre cease to feel how sordid and humiliating were all mundane things compared with the heights to which his soul had just been raised….

But he still painted her, though he admitted that people he knew felt this was sordid.

Variety praised the performances of the entire main cast but felt that the "sordid aspects" of the story prevented the film from achieving the "goal of being pure entertainment".

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.

Can it really be true that someone caught out for sordid, petty deception can feel the same way as someone else riding on the crest of triumph?

I can assure Mr. Cohen that it has nothing to do with a desire to feel better about certain tragic or sordid episodes in French history, nor is it particularly subtle.