Soros spent years in therapy, and was undoubtedly familiar with psychoanalytic theories that the wealthy bought art as a means of assuaging their guilt, by transforming filthy lucre into objects of beauty.
As Robert Sullivan did in researching "Rats," Humphries, a science writer who lives in Boston, spent countless hours in filthy alleys observing the object of her curiosity.
To reach the tomb of the sanctified object, he entered filthy pits and mucky tunnels lined with snakes, tarantulas, scorpions, and rats.
Among the inventory, Ms. Huggins spied something that ignited her object lust: a filthy eight-foot-tall Rococo Revival mirror too big and nutty to attract decorators and most collectors.
The objects, like the filthy, crumpled sheets, have no future except as museum relics.
Here, the object is to swim through thick, filthy water along two 60-yard lengths of a flooded peat bog trench, using only the paddling power of two feet and a snorkel to breathe.
The home side's approach on a filthy afternoon took some believing, especially as the Gloucester scrum, an object of mirth and derision since the start of the campaign, finally found a way of bossing things.
Tipping is a filthy foreign habit, of course, but Thai taxi drivers and waitresses won't object, if you give a modest offering of no more than 20 baht.
just filthy, filthy stuff".
