Sentences with phrase «sort of sex scandal»

The only other time church closures get reported is when it is a mega-church, or when the pastor or staff are caught in some sort of sex scandal or financial crime.

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The peccadilloes of the ruling classes have long been of fascination and as shadow secretary for media culture and sport, Chris Bryant, has written, sex scandals of all sorts — including adultery, homosexuality (when illegal) and murder — have gone hand - in - hand with political power for centuries.

In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing — a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press — and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood.

Well - intentioned but outraged in only a general sort of way, The Whistleblower tells the story of how the United Nations, the United States State Department, and a private military company (The name of the real - life counterpart has been changed in this telling) worked in tandem with different motivations (survival, to avoid blowback, and to maintain a profitable contract) in an attempt to hush up a sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia - Herzegovina in the years after the Bosnian War.