Sentences with phrase «sordid stories»

Multiple women came forward about each author to share sordid stories of sexual harassment, inappropriate remarks aimed at and in front of children, and racist remarks about fellow authors who happen to be people of color.

I heard many sordid stories, though: affairs and key parties, late night drunkenness and parties gone horribly awry.

For a decade author JT LeRoy captivated the literary world with his sordid stories of his childhood.

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

If only we knew more details of this sordid story.

Into this sordid story comes Rocco, an abused and abandoned (and adorable) pit bull puppy, found by Bob in a trash can one night as he's walking home, and Nadia — played by Noomi Rapace (the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)-- an abused and abandoned woman of unknown origin, in whose trash can Rocco has been discarded.

A sordid story about two crazies who kidnap women (usually the wives of drug dealers) and then chop them up after collecting ransom.

Start here to read the long and sordid story of all the ways that Author Solutions / iUniverse / XLibris / Archway / Westbow / Abbott Press have exploited aspiring writers.)

Those familiar with the long, sordid story of Final Fantasy know that the original Japanese Final Fantasy II never made it to stores in North America.

The full story is too long to go into — check here for the whole sordid story — though the highlight is probably his attempt to grant leniency to the makers of Edge by having them pay to rename their game «Edge: An Homage To Bobby Bearing.»

They need the whole, sordid story.

Not exact matches

A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

Julie McMahon September 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm -LSB-...] A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

The story of strained race relations at Moody is sordid, but many students and faculty told me they felt a sense of hope in recent years.

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

Sinful and sordid as much of that story turned out to be, Israel's faith was never a «lift ourselves up by our own bootstraps» kind of willfulness.

«I mean, to the extent that the devil has any personality to speak of at all — even if the story is true and he was once an archangel or something of that sort — he must by now be a pretty sordid, unimaginative, and dreary little fellow.

Clearly distraught with the situation the blonde in question has elected to sell the story of the sordid event to the tabloids, a story that is of course resplendent with quotes such as

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.

Rags to riches stories and their sordid flip side - tales of millions wasted by undisciplined winners

Haynes finds a world of thematic layers underneath the more sordid and sweeping soap opera-esque beats of the story.

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.

This highly unlikely bit of business leads to the introduction of Vincent's partner Reg (George Dzundza, who's made a career out of playing second fiddles and dead partners), and Vincent's sordid back - story, which includes a child - murdering father sent to the chair back when Long Beach was beautiful.

Writer - director Hannah Fidell's debut feature, A Teacher, tells the story of a high school teacher who enters into a sordid love affair with her underage student.

Exhuming one of the most sordid cultural stories of the»90s, Margot Robbie lands the lead role of a lifetime.

First was The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare, a story about an American girl who gets involved with sordid supernatural activity in Victorian London.

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.

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.

The whole sordid (and satirical) story will unfold in seven episodes, with the finale on April 2.

The sordid history of the SSM story are shown in «Neutron repulsion» [The APEIRON Journal, in press (2011), 19 pages]:

Nothing's wrong with hemp — and I'm familliar with the sordid DuPont story behind the national ban.

A May 15, 2007, posting in the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) website featured an article titled, «Help Keep SEJ And The environment In The Spotlight,» lionizing Borenstein for his loyal service to the ideology espoused by Al Gore, Bill McKibben, and Ross Gelbspan: «Sensational, sordid or even silly stories always seem to crowd out serious coverage of important issues like climate change, environmental health and sustainability.

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.

The sordid, complicated and fascinating story of Bre - X and Felderhof's culpability in the corporate deceit has been written about extensively, and it was recently given the Hollywood treatment in the movie «Gold,» starring Matthew McConaughey.

Out of regard for some adoption professionals who fear that the retelling of that story will only be injurious to adopted people and those touched by adoption, we'll defer to the philosophy of adoption secrets and not retell that sordid tale here.