People can never quite decide whether it is a world of glamour or of sordidness.
Can pay, won't pay Scoundrel time Fact in fiction Big brothered Prizes all round Cruel and ever more unusual Our man outside Havana Peter's principles Do look now Post-wall politics Staying the grim reaper What the world is reading Ingenious ReprintsAlexander Solzhenitsyn's has been an extraordinary life one of astonishing elation and triumph amid the horror and sordidness of the Soviet era.
Alongside the sordidness and "The Simpsons" there are drugs: Tepito is the capital's main entrepot for cocaine and marijuana.Since taking office on December 1st Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderón, has launched a crackdown on the drug trade and the violence it generates.
If you treat them like humans, they'll eat you alive .The sordidness of the sport is undeniable yet somehow nobility occasionally breaks through, as it did in the savage beating Braddock suffered when he lost his title to Joe Louis.
But his father was not the man to stay affluent for long; he drank, neglected his affairs, and borrowed money from his office, and his family sank deeper and deeper into poverty, the children becoming accustomed to conditions of increasing sordidness.
The 15 short stories collected in Dubliners mainly focused upon Dublin life's sordidness, but "The Dead" is one of the world's great short stories.
Not even Elgar's judgemental face seems to impress upon Jeremy the sordidness of his behaviour (not much usually does though to be fair).
I had to remove Humbert from my inner ear, to skew the perspective slightly from the protagonist's and try to find a direction that would sit alongside the narration, would reflect its sordidness but not in a literal reenactment".
Leopoldo Alas (byname Clarín), like Valera a well-respected critic and author of volumes of influential articles, has long been considered a naturalist, but his works exhibit none of the sordidness and social determinism typical of that movement.
Although often called naturalistic novels, neither adheres to naturalism's scientific principles or its characteristic depiction of sordidness and violence.
Certain transfers between subway lines, passageways of almost transcendent sordidness; certain sites of torn-down buildings where parking lots have silently sprung up like fungi; certain intersections created by illogical confluences of streets — these express with particular force the city's penchant for the provisional and its resistance to permanence, order, closure.
