Sentences with phrase «into sordid»

Originally published posthumously and recently reprinted by Melville House, The Drinker is Hans Fallada's brutal account of provincial German shopkeeper Erwin Sommer's loss of a business client, refusal to admit this to his wife, lightning - fast descent into sordid alcoholism, and incarceration in prison and an insane asylum.

Assisted by a mysterious and crafty slave named Marduk, Semerket penetrates into the sordid underbelly of this most licentious and sophisticated of ancient metropolises, in the process uncovering a plot that will change the course of Babylonian history.

Thankfully, this isn't another David Cronenberg (Crash, Videodrome) barf - a-thon or an exploration into every sordid taboo subject matter put on film.

Writer - director Hannah Fidell's debut feature, A Teacher, tells the story of a high school teacher who enters into a sordid love affair with her underage student.

While the flick digs into some sordid sequences, it stays peppy enough to keep our interest.

Into this sordid story comes Rocco, an abused and abandoned (and adorable) pit bull puppy, found by Bob in a trash can one night as he's walking home, and Nadia — played by Noomi Rapace (the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)-- an abused and abandoned woman of unknown origin, in whose trash can Rocco has been discarded.

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.

The founder of Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS), Lloyd is committed to ensuring that the youth of today avoid making the same mistakes that she did when she was lured into the sordid world of prostitution.

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.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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 sordid business then descended into farrago of charges and counter-charges between Cohen and Daniels's lawyer, and hints that Daniels has lascivious information about Trump, including photographs, tapes, and something about «paternity.»

Weather modification has a long, sordid history and hurricanes have inspired some of the more far - fetched proposals, from bombarding cyclones with sonic booms from aircraft to beaming down microwaves from space into nascent storms.

Unless the voice of God can carry over into the uninspiring routines of life and the claims of sick, suffering, often sordid humanity, we had better return to the mood of confession and ask God to forgive us our blindness and folly.

Many sordid details have been thrown into the public domain in his businesses.

The sordid details of the scandal instantly turned the phone - hacking row from a celebrity - orientated issue into something much more serious.

Recall the sordid drama that characterised the ailment of late President Umaru Yar» Adua to the very last minute that his remains were lowered into his grave in Katsina on May 5, 2010 in Katsina.

The fact is that since he came into the consciousness of Nigerians as an adult child of the First Republic politician, the late Remi Fani - Kayode (a.k.a Fani - Power), the circumstances of his appearance has been tainted by one sordid tale or the other.

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.

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.

A youth comedy so relentlessly sordid and depressing that it's likely to send its audience straight into the arms of the nearest psycho - pharmacologist.

Even when things are going well for Kelly (the sordid moments of the opening nearly forgotten), the sad, long expressionist shadows falling across nearly every frame and the darkness in the hollows of Kelly's angular cheekbones make it impossible to believe that the paradise she's walked into isn't two steps from turning into hell.

However, it transpires that this is only the beginning of the quest rather than its end, and Joe finds himself treading a blood - drenched trail that leads him into the deep waters of political power and sordid high - level corruption.

But when Welles was too busy (read: «not broke enough») to come slip into the nefarious narrator's loafers, Curtiz went and got Claude Rains to play the part of a diabolical mastermind, who ends up staging his own set of sordid activities when his beautiful, thought dead niece (Joan Caulfield) reappears in his life, along with a rather curious gentleman (Michael North) claiming to be the husband she doesn't remember marrying.

Using the premise as the scaffolding to build a gangland soap opera that evokes the life of famed Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, Scorsese's film combines two different love interests into one Vera Farmiga and collapses a sordid trilogy into a breathlessly tight story of double lives and second chances.

It begins on a sordid note (a sexual act in the club parking lot) and moves with the speed of light while deepening into love.

She meets Thomas, a sweet amnesiac who canâ $ ™ t remember his sordid history as a pornographer, responsible for turning his wife into the world's most notorious porn queen.

But it wasn't his intention to dwell on the sordid goings - on in Anarene, though he'll let us eagerly follow Shepherd into a motel room with Bridges and to a nude swimming pool party.

For instance, the film never touches on Lovelace's forays into super-8 pornography, glossing over some extremely sordid particulars to arrive at the production of Deep Throat — portrayed here as mostly good clean fun behind the camera as well as in front of it (Hank Azaria and Bobby Cannavale turn up as cute and cuddly pornographers).

It has been a sordid tale of trials and tribulations for HP with the TouchPad being the catalyst spurring the company into spinning off its ailing PC division to a separate entity.

With fresh, fast - paced dialogue, Reynolds» debut novel chronicles Ali's friendship with next - door brothers Needles and Noodles, flawed but unforgettable characters all their own, as the three prepare for the party of a lifetime — and pay the consequences for thrusting themselves into a more sordid encounter than any of them could have envisioned.

It is only at the end of the story that the sordid details of these artists» personal lives all come into focus in the story.

I like how this manga is quite sexy without going into the sometimes sordid side that you see in some shoujo titles.

But Metroid has a bit of a sordid history when it comes to its leading lady, even before Other M turned the brave bounty hunter in our minds into the fragile malcontent on the screen (see: Justin Bailey).

The full story is too long to go into — check here for the whole sordid story — though the highlight is probably his attempt to grant leniency to the makers of Edge by having them pay to rename their game «Edge: An Homage To Bobby Bearing.»

As both Bruce and Batman, players must negotiate harsh political turmoil and prevent Gotham City from descending into chaos while digging into the truth about the Wayne family's sordid past.

When finally Dreyfus was cleared and Zola returned to France, Monet sank into a deep depression over the sordid and disgraceful affair.

If you want to read about the whole sordid saga, in which Carreon eventually wound up paying over $ 46,000 in attorney fees in a separate - but - similar case, dig into Popehat «s posts.

I could go into detail about application crashes, frustrating hardware, the sordid Android Market (I wouldn't let my kids browse through it), and other annoyances, but suffice to say that it simply didn't measure up to the expectations I've developed from using Apple devices.