Sentences with phrase «more sordid»

Upon arrival, things take a more sordid turn: Lonny is being arrested for the murder of his girlfriend and her brother.

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.

The arrangement grows more sordid at the revelation that, prior to Chloe, David might have been faithful to his wife.

Even before a few Russian mobsters get in on the action, taking this loaded but legal enterprise in a more sordid direction, Molly has no shortage of greedy, overconfident men to cajole, spar with, counsel and occasionally turn the tables on.

The trailer does make the show look very stylish and filled with intriguing detail about the workings of 19th Century law enforcement, psychology and forensics, while also offering a look at the more sordid aspects of life in that particular time.

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.

Haynes finds a world of thematic layers underneath the more sordid and sweeping soap opera-esque beats of the story.

I would however humbly suggest that the more sordid, id - obsessed, and thus more interesting film is the one that you should see instead, a film that was too quickly dismissed on the North American continent due in part to its temporal proximity to the Columbine shootings.

New Yorkers have a love affair with sordid politicians, and you can't get more sordid than those two.»

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.

For some it became the screen saver of choice for others it served an entirely more sordid purpose.

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.

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

If only we knew more details of this sordid story.

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

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.

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

As the 27th novel unfolds in Donna Leon's exquisite chronicle of Venetian life in all its blissful and sordid aspects, Brunetti is ever more impressed by the intuition of his fellow Commissario Claudia Griffoni, and by the endless resourcefulness and craftiness of Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary and gate - keeper, and reminded of the ever - lasting virtues of his own family.

Instead, she finds herself confronting an evil older and more powerful than she'd ever expected, rooted in the house's long and sordid history of luxury, sin, and murder.

Anyone with more than a passing familiarity with technology knows the sordid tale.

I've been letting this one simmer a bit today to see what other details pop up, and unfortunately, the situation seems to have only gotten more confusing and sordid.

The beatings continued and got more vicious, the sound shifting from adrenaline boosting boots to a sordid drone.

Powhida and Townsend describe Bellum as more earnest than their prior collaboration, Art Basel Miami Beach Hooverville, a hilarious Boschian rendering of the fair scene as a sordid shantytown.

In rejecting all of this, Morris asked, was it not possible to create a more decent, more beautiful, more fulfilling, more healthy, less hell - like way of living, in which all had a part in the «share of earth the Common Mother» and the sordid world of «profit - grinding» was at last brought to an end?

Ostensibly a site for restaurant reviews that expanded to more or less all retail businesses, Yelp has gained a sordid reputation among both business owners and customers thanks to its controversial policies.

For one thing, Google has to overcome a long and sordid history of Android apps that are little more than blown - up phone apps on big screens — and it's an open question whether a big education install base will be the push developers need to update their apps.