Sentences with phrase «given sordid»

De Blasio's opponents had an opening in the campaign's final weeks after Jona Rechnitz, a major donor to the mayor's 2013 campaign, gave sordid testimony in a separate federal corruption trial of the access to the mayor that his money bought him.

However, it is not in the parents or especially the child's, best interest to give them the sordid details of the debt.

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Give these a try, if only to taste the hints of its sordid and surprisingly complicated past.

This sordid episode explains why Coke gives millions to the Grand Canyon.

Given the stormy milieu, The Yellow Handkerchief could have been a sordid slice of life or a maudlin metaphor.

But given the criminal milieu at hand, nothing less would have seemed plausible, or equal to the heightened, sordid sensibility Mr. Johnson creates in the film's opening moments and maintains right up to an ending that is among the more perverse in recent memory.

The engaging but moderately - paced development gives us enough time to absorb the facts and reflect on the sordid contradictions of America's society.

Psycho is pulpy and sordid and perverse, shot in black and white on a low budget to give it the tawdry feel of a B movie, and directed with the impeccable craft of a master who knew how to shock the sensibilities and shake up the expectations of an audience.

Corset - y period dramas of repression and oppression are not normally our go - to bag but aside from the leads, who we'd queue to see read an old - timey phone book, the film's setting is much grimier and more sordid than the drawing room / china teacup variety of period drama (in keeping with the naturalism and class setting of Zola's novel) and gives the advance look we've had an impressively distinctive look and feel.

The cast, who improvises the dialogue based on a plot outline by Guest and Eugene Levy, has some funny bits as they give us the not - so - sordid details of the inner workings of the folk business, but it's surprising how very little of them are memorable.

When The New York Times released its damning report about Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct last Thursday, those two actresses were the first to speak up: Judd gave the Times an on - the - record interview alleging her own sordid experience with the Oscar - winning producer, a claim that Weinstein vigorously denied.

While the rest of us glide above the sordid sprawl of Arkham City scanning for Riddle Trophies, Mac gamers have finally been given the chance to play the first of Rocksteady's superb Batman games, Arkham Asylum.

«The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!»

The sordid, complicated and fascinating story of Bre - X and Felderhof's culpability in the corporate deceit has been written about extensively, and it was recently given the Hollywood treatment in the movie «Gold,» starring Matthew McConaughey.

When I explained I was a tourist and gave that slightly sheepish shrug that tourists give when confessing that sordid fact, all was smiles and jolly English bobby.