Sentence examples for sordid with from inspiring English sources

Critics praised Dunn's dry humour and his ability to capture the sordid with precision, free of sentimentality.

And yet O'Neill wrote with a deep understanding of the destructive clash between the ferocity of human needs and the hard exigencies of life, and held a deep belief in the power of drama to imbue human experience — even the most sad or sordid — with a moving grandeur.

All in all, L'affaire Whitley has been decidedly sordid, with no winners save for the zealots whose detestation of Israel means that they are quite content for successive generations of Palestinians to live in Arab countries with the inferior status of the refugee, barred from non-menial jobs, higher education, the ability to travel and all the other benefits that make a free life worth living.

Fincher returned to a focus on sordid crime with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), a sleek adaptation of Stieg Larsson's best-selling novel about the investigation of an unsolved murder.

"All girls like that," he says, bluntly — but the scene keeps moving, the pair one-upping each other, revealing fetishes and sordid confessions, with the kind of freedom that being with a stranger provides.

"All girls like that," he says, bluntly but the scene keeps moving, the pair one-upping each other, revealing fetishes and sordid confessions, with the kind of freedom that being with a stranger provides.

Gee, we've had such a sordid past with him and then such a great recent past with him that it's really hard to come up with something good that's dirty and still protects the innocent.

Too often, such projects treat sordid material with ironic detachment.

Hitchcock shoots this sordid tale with light, slick cynicism.

Dr. Zamora remembers having a sordid encounter with her when he was a medical student.

Breslin chronicles the cops' sordid tales with a mixture of awe, repugnance and perfect diabolical detail.