Sentence examples for grimy as from inspiring English sources

It's as grimy as it is intellectual and sophisticated.

The building is now as grimy as week-old snow on a New York street.

Delphi Automotive has a corporate background that is as greasy and grimy as the steering gears it once produced.

As grimy as this Largo native wants to keep it, there's still an incredible amount of sunshine in his voice.

Brutal, bloody and grimy as it was, sperm whaling in the age of sail contained elements of the sublime.

It's not a bad exchange; it turns out for example that the woozy narrative "Up in the North" also sounds great as a swaggering rock song, with a groove as sticky and grimy as a weeks-old flypaper.

Rather than simply flashing stacks of cash and fancy cars (though there's that, too), the video shows him and his queen in a grimy apartment, as well as locals amassed on the sidewalk out front, an old man getting his hair braided.

"Kidnap" has all of the genre's hallmarks: shots that abruptly shift to slow-motion, an actress whose face and hair get grimier as the action intensifies, authorities who drag their feet, frenzied crying, one deus ex machina after the next.

I waited on one end of the long wall while he spoke in a low whisper from the other side, unexpected words of tenderness that roared across the room, shy words of love that slid along the grimy walls as distant and unreal as the graffiti they swept past.

The whole thing, under Ralph Thomas's nimble guidance, is frightfully arch and coy, except the chase finale.On the other hand, "Underworld Informers" is as grimy, head-on and direct as a locomotive a cheap one, granted.

The thirty-four-year-old movie star was in white pajamas; the Angel, played by the British actress Amanda Lawrence, wore a Phyllis Diller wig, a skirt fashioned from a frayed American flag, and eight-foot-long wings made of crinoline and linen, as grimy and tattered as a New York City pigeon's.