Sentences with phrase «seamy side of»

The world she creates is populated by colorful eccentrics from the seamy side of life.

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.

They are making art about art — and about the seamy side of American life.

Such a playful mood informs Repo Man, yet Cox also takes time to comment on the seamy side of Los Angeles, the crushing realities of living in an increasingly comformist society, and the problems inherent in a decade that so baldly worships Ronald Reagan, L. Ron Hubbard and television evangelists.

Desperate to get to the bottom of what must be either a cruel joke or a lead to the best reunion he could have ever imagined, Alex begins to follow clues which have him interacting with a criminal element on the seamy side of Paris.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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)

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

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

On the other hand, the non-temperance churches, partly as a reaction to the temperance churches, have tended to overlook the realistic dangers of the use of alcohol in our neurotic culture, to treat drinking as if there were no moral problem involved, and to ignore the seamy side of drinking.

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.

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.

It's the seamier side of politics, the cold calculating strategising side which is as unpalatable as it is important.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Many of the incidents and characters are based on real - life events that occurred in Los Angeles during the same period, including «goon squad» police tactics, brothels that catered to clients looking to make it with movie stars, and the feeding of information to entertainment sources looking to make a buck off of the town's seamy side.

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.

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 latest novel, a follow - up to 1999's The Hunt Club.

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.

LA NOIR offers a new insight into the dark, seamy, sexy side of Los Angeles - a poignant counterpoint to the image of Los Angeles as the Land of Sunshine.

The ClimateGate emails revealed the seamy - side of scientists pressuring journal editors and science journalists in attempts to suppress certain scientific results and opinions.