Sentence examples for sordid of from inspiring English sources

This was the heyday of the verismo movement, which championed realistic depictions, however sordid, of everyday life.

By contrast, Mosley is a less sneaky fighter, and perhaps a more conventional athlete: keen to compete and impatient with histrionics — even his drug use was proof, however sordid, of his obsessive commitment to training.

They might not have seen that their government was capable of lying to them, that their president – whose office has near-sacred status in the United States – was quite ready to abuse his power, to trample on the constitution and to have his aides engage in the most sordid of crimes, from breaking and entering to money laundering.

In the most sordid of them, I almost left behind the little life I had in me when a woman I had just been with appeared naked in the corridor, shouting that I had stolen twelve pesos from a drawer in her dressing table.

And, a jolt of fear was sent coursing through the remainder of this sordid underground of organized crime.

But it will also be a recognition of the sordid state of affairs between aboriginals and whites in Australia.

Although Arsinoe apparently disapproved of the sordid state of the court, she was unable to exert any influence.

The tide turned with the release of the sordid details of the police report.

And they present American society with a nagging reminder of the sordid chapters of our past we prefer to ignore or forget.

Budd Wilkins, writing for Slant magazine, rated the film three stars out of five, calling it "one of the more sordid examples" of the giallo genre.

This sordid violation of the norms of Greek warfare set the tone for what was to come.