Sentences with phrase «other sordid tales»

There were a number of others that ranged from an employee lawsuit that I had to settle because I did not have the right insurance in place, the sale of my business to the wrong person, and many other sordid tales.

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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.

In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing — a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press — and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood.

The title of British artist Jane Simpson's recent exhibition, «My Inheritance and Other Bloody Tales,» might have been cribbed from one of a recent crop of British books recounting sordid sagas of familial dysfunction.