Sentences with word «seamy»

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).

Hawkes plays Mel Samson, a Los Angeles private eye with an unfortunate sense of timing and a case that turns out to be too personal as he negotiates the traditionally seamy underbelly of the City of Angels.

Which brings us to the third point: each novel is immersed in basketball's seamy underside.

Mr. Melius was known as a player in the sometimes seamy world of Long Island politics, having donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to both Democrats and Republicans over the years.

The movie takes place in that pungent Mamet world of seamy streets on the wrong side of town, and is peopled by rogues and con men, trick artists and thieves, those who believe and those who prey on them.

The Silver trial, along with the corruption trial of the former State Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, and his son, Adam, exposed Albany's seamy culture of secrecy and influence peddling.

Today's easy access to pornography is a far cry from seamy video stores on the outskirts of town of yesteryear.

This is certainly an enticing start: a dive into Stockholm's seamy underworld with three lead characters and no heroes, it follows an escaped con, a sparky finance student and a Serbian mafioso as they variously pursue a king - making coke deal.

Dark storyline, with seamy plot twists linked to each of the ten kids lost in their nightmares.

He travels from one seamy underground boxing venue to the next, scoring fights for his low - end bots that he's pieced together.

Others will find themselves among the Defined, the exiled, those judged outside the mainstream, seated high above the waters of seamy Babylon, straining to hear the music of a distant Voice.

The piano - bar vibe and seamy business - traveler eavesdropping had me glued to my stool.

Fight fans, however, need not feel that the old abattoir's seamy atmosphere is necessarily profaned by the sound of music and the soft laughter of dancers.

The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.

The scandal grew seamier as the week went on.

The final - credits thank you to Mexico City becomes a grim joke, for rarely has a locale seemed seamier, dirtier, or so full of hateful people.

With its sharp writing, superior cast, evocative locations, seductively seamy subject matter and delicious performances, Top of the Lake is decidedly back in a major way.

• The city of Fargo itself appears only in the opening sequence of the movie, in which Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) enlists the services of two seamy hoods (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife.

As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny's sadistic son, «Junior,» and assisted by unexpected and reluctant allies, Robert learns more about his ex-wife than he ever did during their marriage.

An obituary of a former Ontario cabinet minister, Sid Handleman, identified Kinsella with the «seamy side» of politics.

At night, wearing his multi-pocketed EMS pants, he transforms into Ambulance Driver, a trauma - fighting superhero who prowls the dark streets and seamy underbelly of the city in search of little old ladies who have fallen and can't get up.

The resulting documentary, Finding Vivian Maier, might better have been titled Constructing Vivian Maier — not because the filmmakers came up empty - handed, but because what they found out sheds too neat and tidy a light on her unsparing, yet warmly sympathetic portraits of the denizens of Chicago's seamy underside.

Ms. Clifford has subsisted amid the seamier elements of a business often rife with exploitation and unruly fare; more than a few of her film titles are unprintable.

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.

Constantly gracious, polite and interested in all that he saw, the Puerto Rican, who grew up in the seamy ghetto streets of New York, signed autographs gladly, met the press and the people and showed up at appointments on time.

Ultimately, there can be no greater crime than to connect (or perhaps re-connect) the seamy underbelly of English football to the hallowed institution that is, in theory, the England team.

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.

The appearance was a climax of sorts — though not the end — to an ongoing pay - to - play scandal that has enveloped the pension fund and exposed a seamy system in which gifts and campaign funds were exchanged for vast investments of public money.

His open feuds with fellow GOP board members have exposed the seamier workings of town government.

Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York State, was found guilty on Monday of federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara promised the trial would pull back the curtains to reveal the seamy side of state government.

Court papers in the two cases suggest that testimony in Federal District Court will expose in granular detail what watchdog groups say is a seamy world where big money and politics have long intersected with government.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York, was found guilty on seven federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

The federal trials this month of Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and of State Senator Dean G. Skelos, a Republican from Long Island who was majority leader, are expected to lift the veil on the seamy culture of deal - making, nepotism and secret meetings in Albany, the state capital.

He's had a front row seat on the seamy side of politics, the go - between bagmen, the wheeler - dealer influence peddlers.

But it is politically embarrassing, and anything law enforcement comes up with, whether actionable or not, will keep the issue in the headlines and remind voters for months of a seamy arrangement that looks suspiciously like an end run around legislative pay raises for a chosen few.

Now Joel I. Klein, who left his post as the city's schools chancellor in December, has been given a task by one of the world's most powerful media moguls: helping to oversee one of the seamier media scandals in recent memory.

Think of the way Cameron kept Andy Coulson under his wing until the bitter end, despite early warnings about his seamy conduct as editor of the News of the World.