Sentences with phrase «in sordid»

«I have found no case anywhere that deals with facts remotely like those at issue in this sordid affair, [leaving] what one can only hope is not an indelible impression that lawyers, even very prominent ones, will do almost anything to prevail if enough money is at stake and available for their use.»

The judgment, in Mosley v. the United Kingdom, stated that there had been no violation of Article 8 (right to protection of private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights in a story about his participation in a sordid, but not illegal, sado - masochistic party.

In what may have been the first official government act of Leftist McCarthyism in the sordid history of CAGW alarmism, «Gore suggested» says Findley, «that the professor had become the victim of Alzheimer's disease.»

You're likely looking at this and groaning at yet another game that takes delight in the sordid filth of motorsport.

She loathed involving Phoebe in the sordid details, wished she could prevent the girl from peeking inside.

Ellis and Neckbone quickly learn that Mud is wrapped up in a sordid mess involving his longtime love, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon), the law, and a posse of Texans looking for some payback.

Most teen comedies bite anyway, and this one sounded like it'd follow in the sordid and crass footsteps of flicks like 2000's Road Trip.

Anytime Billy and Robin aren't on screen, which is far too often in a film starring them, the comedic value of the film tanks completely, with terribly unfunny subplots involving Bruce Greenwood's (Double Jeopardy, Rules of Engagement) quest to find his legitimate son, Louis - Dreyfus («Seinfeld») looking for the husband that may be involved in a sordid male - on - male affair, and the thuggish drug dealers that would rather risk jail time by making threats in bustling casinos to get back what amounts to a rather inconsequential amount of money.

Over the course of the ensuing, eventful weekend, these nostalgic alumni reminisce while again becoming embroiled in sordid affairs and sophomoric hijinks suggestive of immature men desperate to recapture their youth.

Mikey's teenaged daughter Alexis (Abbie Gayle) gets mixed up in this sordid business and, using some intelligence from Sal, JP plots to get his brother back alive and unharmed.

After the break, the Tom Cruise thriller One Shot gets one more and Mira Sorvino is in a sordid tale of true crime.

Many nudge - nudge hints are dropped in the first section of the film, so when the film goes back to fill in the sordid details, it feels schematic and exasperating.

Intensely present and real even in this sordid role, Ramazzotti shows she is growing into one of Italy's most versatile actresses, particularly in difficult proletarian roles like the one here.

The midi skirt is a garment that over the last 12 months I've engrossed myself in a sordid love affair with.

«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.

«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.

Eliot Spitzer may not be directly entangled in this sordid saga in any way, but it seems likely that he'll be affected by it.

The French international pair engaged in some sordid goings on with prostitute Zahia Dehar — as did lesser known star Sidney Govou — and whilst prostitution is legal in France, it's not when the woman concerned is under 18...

We do not know the motives of all the players in this sordid incident.

That is another untruth added to all the other untruths in this sordid crisis.

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..

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?

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?

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Van Beurden takes one basic lesson from this sordid history: Shell failed in renewable energy before because it didn't regard it as strategic.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

A sordid trial is underway in Florida this week, pitting the debased former wrestler Hulk Hogan against the digital tabloid Gawker in a fight over a video showing Hogan having sex with his best friend's wife.

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.

Three decades later, when Redstone stepped down as chairman of Viacom, at the age of 92, embroiled in a public family melodrama and sordid lawsuit over his mental capacity, Dauman, then the C.E.O. of the media conglomerate, was tapped to replace him as executive chairman.

This is, in our assessment, a much fairer practice, and we believe that the application of such a practice across the entire binary options broking industry would go a long way toward improving the sometimes sordid reputation of the industry.

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.

Within the entertainment world in the UK, it began with the sordid child abuse revelations about Jimmy Saville, and it's featured other one - time heroes such as Bill Cosby along the way.

Colina — What David said is true — you keep trying to control the narrative by pulling the conversation back to it being about a «divorce», when nobody really talked about that at all until you initially brought it up, then David addressed it (everyone else ignored it because obviously they weren't interested in the «sordid details»), and you again directed the conversation (attempted to direct it) right BACK to an over simplification of it being about the divorce between two people!

Some express their search in their automobile shrines, while others kneel at the altar of Superlative Experience: they're seeking the highest high, the biggest vehicle, the most extreme sport, the most sordid confession on a reality show.

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

Mr. Jordan came out of the closet at the University of Notre Dame, where he was engaged in sundry and sordid scandals, and now holds an endowed chair in philosophy at Emory University.

The only cult that can truly thrive in the aftermath of Christianity is a sordid service of the self, of the impulses of the will, of the nothingness that is all that the withdrawal of Christianity leaves behind.

The story of strained race relations at Moody is sordid, but many students and faculty told me they felt a sense of hope in recent years.

Second, there is the matter of his sordid personal history and, again in the mind of the New Yorker, his even more offputting convictions as a born - again Christian.

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

The meeting, along with the multiple public references to the scandal, may have marked the end of a sordid chapter in the Church's life, although the victim organizations and their lawyers continue the long march through the courts and chanceries in search of payouts that now exceed more than $ 2 billion.

An army of police officers has marched forth to investigate the most sordid of crimes in the most up - to - date way.

One sees there their immense ambition to augment their temporal power, their sordid avarice in transfering great wealth unjustly and dishonestly to their families in order to enrich their nephews, mistresses, or ba - stards.

Not that such an answer is wholly false: Certainly the more picaresque side of Juan's adventures — the veil of night, the cloaked figure stealing over balconies and through windows, the sordid incognito — seems only quaint in light of today's morbidly austere and functionalist venereal aesthetics.

Printing assisted in the growth of the nation - state but, in so doing, made patriotism into a sordid if not a murderous emotion.

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 TrinitIn 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 Trinitin Christ, a place in the very heart of the Trinitin the very heart of the Trinity.

Band members also relate sordid testimonies of growing up in a drug - ridden ghetto in southern California.

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.