In later, widowed, years holidaying with friends Cliff Richard, Dale Winton and Paul O'Grady, Cilla certainly seemed like a relic of a bygone show business era – albeit a legend that was never sullied, nor likely to be sullied, by the scandal that has overtaken so many of her male light entertainment colleagues.
A truly objective way of letting people know what a film is like without being sullied by unnecessary humanity.
Do the likes of Rolex, MasterCard, HSBC and Ralph Lauren want their images sullied by this nonsense?
If this seems like a case of beloved analog characters being sullied by their association with the disheartening digital present, remember that the Muppets have always been, despite their throwback vaudevillian personas, creatures of the pop-culture moment.
(Northam's record, though, is sullied by his two votes for President George W. Bush, who was proudly anti-abortion and appointed multiple like-minded justices to the Supreme Court).
I like the "Boheme" recording and do not believe that Zubin Mehta, Barbara Frittoli or any of the other artists on it were sullied by working with Mr. Bocelli.
Others, like the Egg Master and my hog-shaped jelly mould, are delightful grotesques designed to be gleefully revered and never, ever sullied by actual use.
MO'R I accept your charges about the likes of Terry Richardson – there are vile operators in any industry but it doesn't mean the whole of that world should be sullied by them.
Like a Savile Row tailor, Glaeser works with customers to design tasteful packages that surpass those of dealers' stock, while ensuring that the brand image is not sullied by an overzealous hand.
"You have sullied that reputation".
The endless stream of scandals — money laundering, shady financial services, rogue trading and attempted manipulation of interest rates — has further sullied the industry, including institutions like Barclays, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS.
