Sentences with phrase «seamier side»
The phrase "seamier side" refers to the darker or less respectable aspects of something or someone. It implies the existence of hidden or unsavory activities, situations, or behavior that may be considered shady, scandalous, or morally questionable. Full definition
Chartreuse's last major moment was its association with the British Aesthetic movement and the intellectual - yet - seamy side of the late Victorian period (1870 - 1900).
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An obituary of a former Ontario cabinet minister, Sid Handleman, identified Kinsella with the «seamy side» of politics.
Within days of the novel's publication, a host of reviewers had insisted» a bit too stridently» that there was not much to learn from this extended exposure of the seamy side of college life.
Although acknowledging its seamier side, Willimon discourses on its positive aspects: as «the moral casuistry of ordinary people» and as «a primary means of congregational bonding.»
Gossip has its seamier side, to be sure.
But now the students must wonder how they will cope with the seamier side of medical practice, the blood and gore and uncertainty and frustration.
In later years Luther remembered the seamy side of things, but he also remembered the impressive nature of the University and the satisfactory nature of participating in it, regretting the disappearance of much of the great tradition.
The seamier side of political life also exists.
It's the seamier side of politics, the cold calculating strategising side which is as unpalatable as it is important.
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara promised the trial would pull back the curtains to reveal the seamy side of state government.
He's had a front row seat on the seamy side of politics, the go - between bagmen, the wheeler - dealer influence peddlers.
I can assure William Bown and Rabi Mehta that the experimental results on swing and reverse swing of cricket balls have not sat unregarded in the Aeronautics Library at Imperial College («The seamy side of swing bowling», 21 August)
I guess my biggest problem with it is that David's experiences, while technically sugar, seem to lie at the seamier side.
Just as the Julia Roberts fairy tale Pretty Woman morphed from something, in its script stage, dark and harrowing to, on the screen, something sweet and cheery, this could - have - been foray into either the seamier side of life or the less - than - squalid but more - than - ordinary steers clear of ever getting near the truly treacherous.
L.A. Noire's absorbing investigations and intoxicating sense of style make it an unforgettable journey through the seamy side of the City of Angels.
Years later, as she enters medical school, she will need to call upon the skills her father taught her as she struggles with the rigorous medical training, mounting financial pressures and the seamier side of medicine.
A playful mood informs Repo Man, yet Cox also takes time to comment on the seamy side of LA, the crushing realities of living in a comformist society, and the problems inherent in a decade that so baldly worships Reagan, L. Ron Hubbard and TV evangelists.
Celebrating the cinema of the past has always been Tarantino's forte, although he's usually been more inclined to rejoice in the seamier side of the moviegoing experience, (down to the scratches and cuts he inserted into the anthology film «Grindhouse») rather than the sort of grandiosity used to ballyhoo the elephantine musicals and epics of the 1960s.
Mulholland Books, 448 pages, $ 26 The seamy side of Hollywood never fails to fascinate, and it delivers enough intrigue and general nastiness for gripping plots.
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon play colleagues who are well versed in the seamier side of Corporate America.
Through the investigation, the town's seamier side is exposed, revealing nothing is what it seems.
It's hard to find examples of groups who are consistent in taking a detached view of their own past (human beings are not known for being consistent), but I would say that many countries look at their own pasts without flinching from the seamier side.
In one desperate attempt after another to escape his not - so - distant past, he had completed a circuit of the Gulf Coast in a little over a decade, taking in the seamier sides of Mobile, Gulfport, and Baton Rouge.
When a pal is accused of murdering her gangster boyfriend, Isabel begins an investigation that draws her into Chicago's seamier side.
The seemingly bucolic setting of South Carolina's Low Country reveals its seamier side in Bret Lott's...
Ashcan School artist George Bellows captured the seamier side of early twentieth - century New York, choosing subjects like tenements, street life, and underground boxing clubs.
The seemingly bucolic setting of South Carolina's Low Country reveals its seamier side in Bret Lott's latest novel, a follow - up to 1999's The Hunt Club.
Kinaara Resort & Spa Pemuteran Bali anchors on the northwest, a seamier side of the stunning island.
To enjoy a maximum decadence in this seamier side of the enchanted island, precise location acts as the causative key factor.
They are making art about art — and about the seamy side of American life.
Their sophomore space opened in London in 2014, on the seamier side of town between the bookshops (and sex shops) of Soho's Charing Cross Road.
Her insistence risks stagnation, but one can see its power in such photographers as Donna Ferrato, and it also helps me as her viewer get past that stress on the seamy side of life.
The exhibition Bitter Angel at Faurschou Foundation Beijing centres on a series of eight large paintings from 1999, which move within these contrasts between life and its seamier sides.
The world she creates is populated by colorful eccentrics from the seamy side of life.
Through his lawyer, Sandy Stern (Raul Julia), Sabich discovers the seamy side of himself and the criminal law — a view that both offends and saves him.
Like many cities, Newark has its seamier side, so make sure you're properly insured.