Outside is a young woman: filthy, smelly, in dire straits (you could write a whole essay on the theme of dirt in NW; Smith is as meticulous when it comes to describing muck as she is cherry blossom).
Filthy, smelly, repulsive.
When I think biker I think filthy, smelly, greasy, foul-mouthed animals riding loud, primed-up hogs without exhaust pipes that spit and bleed as they race down the street.
On another occasion, a ride from Kennedy Airport, the taxi was filthy, seats torn and the driver was dirty, smelly and unkempt.
"It's filthy, sometimes smelly," Mr. Norton said.
These machines are extremely loud, filthy and smelly.
It was as if I really experienced filthy, crowded, smelly subway platforms and trains, every type of grubby degenerate imaginable, rudeness, unabashed avarice and, overall, some of the worst examples of the human condition in existence.
"For foreigners, it's filthy, noisy, smelly, there are people dying everywhere -- it's a living paradox," says Eddie Stern, the director of the Ashtanga Yoga New York, and a co-producer of the project.
-- Ben Munisteri "New York City is the richest city in the country, yet our subway system is filthy and smelly and crowded and loud and none of the loudspeakers ever work correctly and only about half of the conductors ever take their jobs seriously enough to actually give the riders decent announcements of service changes...
The worst, filthiest and smelliest work was cleaning animal intestines to be used as sausage casings.
Larson delves into the smelly, filthy and uncomfortable business of Antarctic field work, showing, for example, Edward Wilson, an ornithologist and Scott's best friend, as he butchered seals and penguins for lab specimens.
