Sentences with phrase «for sordid»

A pupil of Raymond Carver, he has garnered a reputation for the sordid and the hard - boiled.

A City of Ids: Colin Harrison on why the city has always been fertile ground for the sordid, baroque, and gruesome.

at the last moment; the lady at the bodega where I get my yogurt and fruit each morning, who watches me sift daily through the bright, yellow ones on top for the sordid, unlovable ones at the bottom of the pile; Molly, who I confessed my banana sin to in a moment of cream cheese - frosted camaraderie; and now you.

They am «idle talkers and deceivers,... teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach....

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For a decade author JT LeRoy captivated the literary world with his sordid stories of his childhood.

The boats set sail from Libya, where a main base of the traffickers is located, and migrants wait in sordid conditions, often for months, for the opportunity to be crowded into the boats after paying thousands of dollars.

The PRI's somewhat sordid history, both recent and historical, of patronage and links to the criminal underworld makes it possible for critics to raise uncomfortable questions about its fulmination against the Venezuelan government.

If that's not enough public embarrassment for you, tune into the sordid affairs and finances of Toni and her kin in the Braxton Family Values reality show on WE.

It all suggests that the dramatic day and a half of legal proceedings are but a prelude to even more courtroom theatrics and combat in what has become a sordid, long - standing matter (for the full saga, read the Disturbing Decline of Sumner Redstone) that reflects poorly on countless participants, not least the boards of CBS and Viacom, which took no action to remove Redstone as their executive chairman until Herzer's case forced their hand.

Anybody who's seen Chinatown can guess at the sordid history of the real estate deals that helped transform Los Angeles from a dusty burgh to a global capital of glamour, and for Gross — who sold truckloads of his previous book, 740 Park, a history of New York's richest apartment building and its residents — the estates of Beverly Hills and Bel Air prove fertile ground.

Once the sordid operation was complete, Europe had automatically acquired another reason for refusing to discuss debt restructuring: it would now hit the pockets of European citizens!

Leaving aside the question of whether there can be amnesty for anything but the past, this is yet another in a sordid series of instances in which unbridled vindictiveness disguised as a passion for justice has done great wrong.

But while denying the reports, which said the butler was merely a courier in a behind - the - scenes struggle for power in the Holy See, the Vatican acknowledged that the often sordid affair would test the faith of Catholics in their Church.

A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

Julie McMahon September 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm -LSB-...] A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Matthew and Luke weren't hiding the truth, but they did want to distract their readers from the real problem about Jesus» birth: the sordid assumption that Jesus was a mamzer (Hebrew for «bastard»).

I have a Sister who swears by «the sinner's prayer» but is beholding to «the secret» and her life has not been radically transformed, she still engages in sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage and feels this is natural... I would never be able to participate in this sordid activity now that i am truly saved for there was a time i myself was being deceived in much the same way as my Sister is now, I just couldn't bring myself to do these acts and further, would not place myself in such a predicament that I would..

He seems to have had an instinct — or shall we say, a gift of the Spirit — for taking any situation however sordid and saying something that would ring through the ages to inspire us.

In Canada, the church has been living with the sad and sordid story of «residential schools» for native peoples.

In fact, that's why I like talking about this subject — because, through the grace of Jesus Christ — about whom, more later — our sordid sinfulness has become the platform for something unimaginably wonderful: our new life in Christ, a place in the very heart of the Trinity.

The website, which caters to married people looking for extramarital encounters and has been compromised by cyber-activists, is now relegated to the role of helpless witness as the names and sordid secrets of its clientele are being broadcast for everyone (including their devastated spouses and families) to see.

He's speaking from the experience of heartache — an ugly secret he kept buried for eight years, dismissing his wife's frequent questions about what was wrong, shoving it all into a sordid place in his heart that he could almost wish away from existence.

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they want to root for tebow to fail for some reason because they have nothing else to look forward to in their dingy, sordid lives.

What a strange, sordid season for Wall and the Wizards.

Their playoff in Montevideo was a sordid shambles, with four Celtic players and two Racing men ordered off the field for fouling and brawling.

Apparently, Arsenal aren't planning a sordid party, they're looking for cover.

There's no way that you'll pick up on every single sordid detail in this promenade - style production, but half of the fun is comparing notes with your friends in the lobby for post-show drinks.

While bullying has a long and sordid history in American classrooms, a November 7, 2016 article in The Nation asserts that the current surge is notable in two respects, both for the similarity of its targets - Muslim students, immigrants and children of immigrants, children of color, girls, and Jews - and the language used against them, leading some educators to suggest a link to Donald Trump and the «degraded course of this election season.»

However, as a result of the Rawlingses inexorable and senseless attacks on the Mahama - led NDC government, functionaries and activists of the governing party feel reluctant or have refused to mount a defense for the former first family whenever NPP loyalists make reference to the sordid past of the NDC founder and his wife.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, are facing the biggest test of their political and social lives as the opposition New Patriotic Party, the pair are now rooting for, never ceases latching onto the sordid record of the Rawlings / NDC I regime while the ruling Mahama led - National Democratic Congress, the party they founded, has been incapacitated defending the duo owing to their antagonistic posturing.

Hey kids, let's celebrate the election year by digging into the sordid past of Epolitics.com, resurrecting posts from 2008 and 2012 for a semi-regular Throwback Thursday feature.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, another Democrat running for mayor who already called on Weiner to drop out, predicted there would be more sordid revelations.

A sordid drama played out on Thursday in osogbo, Osun state as two prominent traditional rulers battled for the chairmanship of the sun state traditional council.

The sordid whiff of prurient homophobia disguised as concern for taxpayers» money coupled with a galling display of cant from our political opponents has managed to drive from office a man who true fiscal conservatives were proud to have as Chief Secretary.

Rechnitz's sordid account of a City Hall for sale to the highest bidders merely confirms what's been obvious since de Blasio took office.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said it's time to «stop talking» about his vanquished political rival, Weiner, following his sentencing, while Cuomo called the sordid case «highly disturbing,» and noted the ex-congressman «should be punished for it.»

Schultz said Weiner's behavior is «indefensible,» his role in Congress is «untenable,» and that «this sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction» for everyone.

«I am very, very disappointed when a person who runs for public office and holds themselves out to be trusted by their community, winds up involved in a sordid affair,» he said.

Sifting for clues in the wreckage of Eliot Spitzer's stunning, sordid prostitution scandal — and trying to make sense of what no doubt will always contain a large element of pure insanity — that old mob investigation offers a vivid glimpse into the suddenly ex-governor's psyche.

«Through enhanced enforcement and increased penalties for political consultants who flout the law, this new legislation will root out bad actors and shine a spotlight on the sordid influence of dark money in politics,» Cuomo said.

«I am very disappointed when a person who runs for office and holds themselves out to be trusted by their community winds up involved in a sordid affair,» Cuomo told reporters this week when asked about Panepinto.

* Tuesday also left city taxpayers covering the bill for two high profile losers with sordid pasts.

Having tackled ghosts, sex, and the sordid science of cadavers in previous books, Mary Roach went to space in 2010 — in subject matter, at least — in Packing for Mars.

Andreas Vesalius pioneered modern anatomy 450 years ago but it has taken nearly all that time for the discipline to shed its sordid reputation

ASYLUM - Apr 23 - Cheater Registry is a new website that is making it possible for men and women to upload names of cheaters, sordid details of relationships gone wrong and even photographic proof.

A commanding blend of the high and low, a thoroughly sordid family melodrama designed for over-literate history buffs.

Hopes were high for Kill Your Darlings, another competition title that looked back on a formative moment for the Beat movement — when youngsters Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Lucien Carr were bopping around Columbia University in the mid -»40s — and then dashed once filmmaker John Krokidas decided to turn the whole sordid affair (Murder!

Yet rather than dive into a sordid horror tale it becomes a voyage of discovery for these mysterious creatures as they are brought into their new home.