Sentences with phrase «sordid character»

Driven by an awareness of the sheer volume of blabber that has smoked out all reasonable attempts to locate the truth in this shifting soap opera, she adopted the role of a court painter and PR agent for the age of fatuity, and proceeded to advance the notoriety of the sordid character types and events in formal (psychic) portraiture.

It makes for a dark and sordid character tale.

He has answered me with such hostility that he sounds just like Duke George... These tyrants have such weak, unmanly, and totally sordid characters that they deserve to be servants of the rabble... I appreciate that you promised to send seeds in the spring.

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It's a dark, sordid place filled with questionable characters and seedy locales hidden beneath a veneer of sunny skies and celebrities.

There are solid supporting turns from Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, and Zoe Saldana, but Cooper doesn't trust his characters enough, and is too enamored with his own sordid backdrop of underground fighting rings and hair - trigger violence.

Since starring in The Lincoln Lawyer, McConaughey has shown a willingness to forego nice - guy — or even pretty - guy — roles in favor of characters whose sordid pasts show through his now sagging (yet still handsome) features.

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.

With chapters that feature the sordid history of each institution on the island, Horn's book is populated by all the characters you might expect in such a story: idealistic social reformers, clueless judges, abused patients, incompetent doctors and caring but powerless priests.

For readers who bemoan the violence and sordid storylines in many novels for teens, Hemphill's lively tale and memorable characters will be a breath of fresh air.

When I learned that Alfred Leslie's latest works, the photographs of computerized drawings of sordid fictional characters, were now on display at Janet Borden's Broadway gallery (a Soho stalwart), I hastened to view them again.