Forming the government was a sordid and costly process.
I leave to intrepid future historians the task of sorting out the sordid details of the process by which a deeply provincial protectionism tightened its grip in the 1970's and 80's.
Here's a non-comprehensive sampling of references to Jews in the film: Among the film's international crew of political agents is an elderly Jewish man who, when asked what became of the gold of the Bank of Palestine, points to his teeth (a sordid metaphorical reversal of the process by which, in the concentration camps, the Germans extracted gold from the teeth of Jews they executed).
After a sordid and chaotic early voting process yesterday, the international media is anticipating that Election Day here in Florida will be a spectacular debacle.
"Tony Blair, as chief architect of this sordid and concerted assault on due process, is let off too lightly by the committee, though they are explicit in exposing the public deception which lay at the heart of this nefarious process.
With no formal peace process in Manipur, and a sordid nexus between its militants and politicians that has long helped sustain the conflict, it seems resigned to waging an indefinite low-level conflict there.
But she said she didn't regret the affair, and instead painted the whole sordid scandal as a perhaps necessary stage in Mr. Edwards's "process" of self actualization.
And when I considered the political implications of diabetes, the sordid history of sugar and the rogues' gallery of pharmaceutical and processed food industry vultures who continue to profit from it, I became even more determined not only to escape the danger zone myself, but to join the growing political movement to fight back against sugar.
From late-night TV jokes to sensational headlines, supposedly sordid pictures and judgmental comments, the media and public have lambasted Bruce Jenner's until-now private gender transition process because his efforts to feminize his external presentation were seen as failures by traditional, cisgender female beauty standards.
