Sentences with phrase «ugly underbelly»

Too often, the grab for gifts brings out an ugly underbelly of the holidays.

exposed fashion's ugly underbelly.

However, Sharrer used such elements to draw the unsuspecting viewer in while cleverly deploying the power of humor to transgress rigid social boundaries and reveal the ugly underbelly of power.

Take the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, and come face to face with the ugly underbelly of freeburg, a city spiraling the drain.

Those who enjoyed Flynn's exposé of the ugly underbelly of marriage shouldn't miss Ross» debut, which features three couples bound by love, hate and, possibly, murder.

It's crucial that we're reminded that people like the lieutenant exist, not to understand the morbid specifics of his drug use or promiscuity, but rather to understand how «normal society» and its ugly underbelly are only two sides of the same coin.

Part old - fashioned Hollywood up - by - the - bootstraps plot and part angry young product of the ugly underbelly of foster care, it's a film that delves far deeper than expected and packs a real emotional punch.

Uday Hussein represents the very ugly underbelly of Iraqi athletics.

The game, called Phone Story, had players tour the ugly underbelly of phone manufacturing — including children mining dangerous minerals, workers in terrible factory conditions putting phones together and toxic recycling centers in developing nations...

surely this is one of the ugly underbellies of religion.

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But it's really an absorbing, Bret Easton Ellis - style examination of Wall Street's underbelly at perhaps its ugliest and most exciting time.»

His social scalpel sharpened, he set out to uncover the ugly, but alluring, underbelly of the cash - fueled power politics of the art world, with its elite egotists ever - battling for prominence.

Reading Auster's descriptions of Brooklyn's tough, almost ugly, underbelly...

La Bella Figura, a common Italian phrase referring to the importance of maintaining an elegant exterior, may seem to point to the often poignant beauty of the works, but it also refers to Italy's ugly political underbelly, the implied corrupt core that «the beautiful figure» must disguise.

Now oil companies did increase political lobby funding following climategate, that would be when «Climate Science» showed it ugly political underbelly.