Sentences with phrase «sordid lives»

Outfront Theatre presents a new production of writer Del Shore's cult classic comedy about the sordid lives of residents of small - town Winters, Texas.

Sordid Lives.

The omnipresent flat screen tv blairing details of the sordid lives of this or that disposible celebrity, not to mention the newer, democratic class of traveler that is glued to that screen, have wiped out that form idling.

From director Ryan Prows, this is about the sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador that collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.

The Film Collaborative is launching A Very Sordid Wedding, a sequel to the play, movie and television series Sordid Lives rooted in the Southern Baptist world of Winters, Texas, exploring the acceptance, conflict and bigotry following the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court's same - sex marriage equality ruling.

they want to root for tebow to fail for some reason because they have nothing else to look forward to in their dingy, sordid lives.

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It glosses over a lot of his legal troubles, but there's enough here to suggest a sordid life behind the music, especially in the film's second scene, which sees an older Brown threatening people with a shotgun because one of them dared to use the bathroom in a building he owns.

Not exact matches

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

But new was the artist's social justice embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement — several videos on Lemonade and her song Formation prominently feature black women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital strife.

The lives of the very rich are fascinating, particularly when those lives turn grubby and sordid and tinged with tragedy.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

I have a Sister who swears by «the sinner's prayer» but is beholding to «the secret» and her life has not been radically transformed, she still engages in sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage and feels this is natural... I would never be able to participate in this sordid activity now that i am truly saved for there was a time i myself was being deceived in much the same way as my Sister is now, I just couldn't bring myself to do these acts and further, would not place myself in such a predicament that I would..

In Canada, the church has been living with the sad and sordid story of «residential schools» for native peoples.

The meeting, along with the multiple public references to the scandal, may have marked the end of a sordid chapter in the Church's life, although the victim organizations and their lawyers continue the long march through the courts and chanceries in search of payouts that now exceed more than $ 2 billion.

In fact, that's why I like talking about this subject — because, through the grace of Jesus Christ — about whom, more later — our sordid sinfulness has become the platform for something unimaginably wonderful: our new life in Christ, a place in the very heart of the Trinity.

U cm, U live ur life and U die.Its jst all the story, bereft of all the sordid drama of hopes..

Unless the voice of God can carry over into the uninspiring routines of life and the claims of sick, suffering, often sordid humanity, we had better return to the mood of confession and ask God to forgive us our blindness and folly.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, are facing the biggest test of their political and social lives as the opposition New Patriotic Party, the pair are now rooting for, never ceases latching onto the sordid record of the Rawlings / NDC I regime while the ruling Mahama led - National Democratic Congress, the party they founded, has been incapacitated defending the duo owing to their antagonistic posturing.

Never mind Wednesday's suspension of the Director General of NIA, Kayode Oke, whose tales by the moonlight keep reminding Nigerians of the many sordid drama that is the hallmark of their daily lives.

«Decades ago, governors could get away with a lot of sordid behavior in the political, financial and personal lives.

Given the stormy milieu, The Yellow Handkerchief could have been a sordid slice of life or a maudlin metaphor.

Now, thanks to the bitter and bleakly funny black comedy that «Lars and the Real Girl» director Craig Gillespie has made about the most sordid years of her life, Tonya Harding is finally getting a chance to tell her side of the story.

The trailer does make the show look very stylish and filled with intriguing detail about the workings of 19th Century law enforcement, psychology and forensics, while also offering a look at the more sordid aspects of life in that particular time.

But when Welles was too busy (read: «not broke enough») to come slip into the nefarious narrator's loafers, Curtiz went and got Claude Rains to play the part of a diabolical mastermind, who ends up staging his own set of sordid activities when his beautiful, thought dead niece (Joan Caulfield) reappears in his life, along with a rather curious gentleman (Michael North) claiming to be the husband she doesn't remember marrying.

When their all - consuming passion takes a life - threatening turn, Inspector Netusil (Harvey Keitel) is assigned to piece together the sordid details.

The gangly nerd has less of a love life than either of his recently - divorced parents (William H. Macy and Cheryl Hines), who almost rub that fact in by inappropriately sharing the sordid details of their romantic relationships with him.

Using the premise as the scaffolding to build a gangland soap opera that evokes the life of famed Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, Scorsese's film combines two different love interests into one Vera Farmiga and collapses a sordid trilogy into a breathlessly tight story of double lives and second chances.

Earnest has a strong bond with Jerome, who soaks up his dad's life lessons like a sponge, but Mary is staunchly defiant, her disdain for her father stemming from his sordid past.

It is only at the end of the story that the sordid details of these artists» personal lives all come into focus in the story.

Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery.

As the 27th novel unfolds in Donna Leon's exquisite chronicle of Venetian life in all its blissful and sordid aspects, Brunetti is ever more impressed by the intuition of his fellow Commissario Claudia Griffoni, and by the endless resourcefulness and craftiness of Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary and gate - keeper, and reminded of the ever - lasting virtues of his own family.

Their existence makes it possible for all prospective pet buyers to turn a blind eye to the sordid reality of puppy mills, just as meat - eaters want to think they're all eating meat from the 1 % of cows who spend their lives on pasture with their calves as opposed to standing in a lagoon of manure.

As a poignant counterpoint to the methodical abuse by Allied Powers, Siatous does not ignore or glamorize any aspect of its sordid history and grounds each canvas with a historically significant date and title in what he calls «a political act,» celebrating a much longed for life in his hometown of Diego Garcia and a hopeful vision for the future.

The gods, disgusted at this sordid feast, restored Pelop to life and installed Tantalus chin - deep in a pool of water underneath a fruit tree for all eternity.

Unlike the Surrealists, who used found objects as a means of self - interrogation to shock the imagination or discredit the habitual, Kienholz uses them to demonstrate an earnest indignation at the gritty facts of life, as a means of gaining power over our terrors and desires, and to overcome our sordid memories.

Cady Noland, for example, who holds the record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork by a living woman ($ 6.6 m), is a reclusive figurative sculptor whose work explores the sordid underbelly of the American dream.

His interest in Hogarthian moral themes is evidenced in his paired paintings The Life and Death of Buckingham, depicting the dissolute life and sordid death of the Restoration rake George Villiers, 2nd Duke of BuckingLife and Death of Buckingham, depicting the dissolute life and sordid death of the Restoration rake George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckinglife and sordid death of the Restoration rake George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.

In rejecting all of this, Morris asked, was it not possible to create a more decent, more beautiful, more fulfilling, more healthy, less hell - like way of living, in which all had a part in the «share of earth the Common Mother» and the sordid world of «profit - grinding» was at last brought to an end?

The judgment, in Mosley v. the United Kingdom, stated that there had been no violation of Article 8 (right to protection of private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights in a story about his participation in a sordid, but not illegal, sado - masochistic party.