Sentence examples for tainted world from inspiring English sources

If "Windtalkers," which opens nationwide today, often succumbs to the standard "Greatest Generation" plot elements that have tainted World War II films since "Saving Private Ryan," Mr. Woo shows he's easily Steven Spielberg's equal at large-action sequences.

The idea that a clearly tainted World Cup bidding process should be reopened was firmly squashed.The underlying problem at FIFA is that it controls television and marketing rights (worth $4 billion at last year's World Cup in Brazil), which can be used by those in power to win the loyalty of football federations from poor countries, particularly in Africa.

11.12am: An email, from Andy Nicol: Pivoting off your discussion of Oscar Tabarez and tainted World Cup achievements, I wonder if we might consider the Suarez incident and its reception in Uruguay as just the latest in a rather unbecoming attitude towards their place in world football?

One of O'Neill's masterstrokes is to make Hans, a rather banal financial analyst, a cricket purist in a tainted world.

"Our tainted world looms within us, every one," Lee writes, and admits that he was, at times, baffled by the direction of his own work.

Would a revelation that he took it while with the Red Sox taint their World Series titles?

And of the impossibility of existing in a self-contained, corrupt world without being at least slightly tainted.

Mr. Smith says he is giving his sons a racial grounding before they are "tainted" by the world.

Mr Hu in turn said China would improve the quality of exports, recently tainted in the world's eyes by stories of poisoned pet food and toxic toys.Most significant, however, may have been discussions over North Korea.

He is a clear allusion to Arnold Rothstein, a New York crime kingpin who was notoriously blamed for the Black Sox Scandal which tainted the 1919 World Series.

"I'm sorry that I am still somewhere a punching ball… I'm sorry for football… I'm sorry for me for, how I'm tainted in this world of humanitarian qualities," he told reporters.