Sentence examples for sordid things from inspiring English sources

And she's been around the block too many times to be shocked by the sordid things that go on at pricey retirement homes and in the overdecorated houses of the people who run them.

I just make what I like — good, human stories in which you can get with people and which prove that the better things of life can be as interesting as the sordid things".

These six books have either one twist or no twist at all; they all reveal at least five sordid things; and none of them have truly happy endings.

Cori Crider, the legal director of the UK-based legal organization Reprieve, which represents more than a dozen Guantanamo prisoners, told VICE News that she believes the euphemisms are an attempt to "whitewash some of the more sordid things going on, although often the effect was just to make them more sinister and Orwellian".

This whole sordid thing is beneath him.

"It's such a sordid thing I don't want to be mixed up in it," she said.

Depending on how the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in San Francisco, rules on the Administration's case,** t**he whole sordid thing could end up before a split Supreme Court in a matter of weeks.

Honestly though, Dewit says, the whole sordid thing was not his cup of tea: "This isn't southern Europe, where people practically live their lives right out in the streets!" I ask him if he ever visited the show's Web site, that quick fix for voyeur junkies.

He'd just murmured a very sordid thing, "I put my swordfish in the cupboard," when suddenly he screamed, "OW! OW! OW!" He clasped his rear.

I simply assume the position, sitting side-by-side, no eye contact, someone from work telling me about some sordid thing they did on the weekend, me occasionally asking questions and passing judgement.

But even setting aside the deep irrelevancy of this sordid affair, a number of things about it don't add up.