Sentences with phrase «with sordid»

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

The Serpentine Sackler Gallery is currently filled with sordid «artefacts», Nazi toys, Ronald McDonalds, f*cking animals and Ku Klux Klan members.

This new season moves the contest from the rugged, enclosed Alcatraz sector to the full grandure of Bagne de Cayenne, an island with a sordid history of violent incarceration.

If that's not unnerving enough, along with the sordid details of your reading history, they've got your name, your address, and your credit information on file.

The media paints Faye as a militant radical with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother never left her small Iowa town.

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

This tells the fictional tale of Benjamin Martin (Gibson, Chicken Run), a former war hero with a sordid past who is reluctant to take up the cause of his brethren in fighting the British during the Revolutionary War.

Lincoln is largely concerned with the sordid business of trying to add enough vulnerable Democratic votes to those of the Republicans to amass the supermajority needed to pass the 13th Amendment — if necessary, with threats, offers of positions and other inducements short of direct vote buying.

DEA agent and ex-Ranger Tom Hardy (John Travolta) is that hoary action - movie standby: the alcoholic detective with a sordid past called in to solve one last case by the last man on the force who has any faith in him.

Once again, he's playing a guy with a sordid history trying to redeem himself by proving to the world he's no joke, except this time, he's trying to be the champion of the arm wrestling world.

The sexual tension between a curly - haired, side - whiskered Doc and the former prom queen - turned aspiring hippie starlet - turned kept woman is palatable, and fuels the fiction, yet, as any respectable PI, Doc meets a lot of available ladies throughout, whether he beds them or not: Jena Malone (a classic California blonde with a sordid heroin past), Reese Witherspoon (a hard - as - nail but o so classy deputy D.A.), Maya Rudolph (too sexy to be «just a receptionist»), Hong Chau (an employee of the «Chick Planet» massage parlour, who warns him about the Golden Fang gang), newcomer Sasha Fenway (as Japonica Fenway, a poor little rich girl who can't find enough mischief to commit), Yvette Yates (as the hot Chicana maid who thrusts her butt in Doc's direction while serving drinks to her mistress), Joanne Newsom (as the elusive Sortilège) and the fabulous Jeannie Berlin as Doc's I - know - it - all formidable auntie.

Her erotic thriller chronicles the kinky relationship of a college coed and a handsome, young billionaire with a sordid sexual appetite for sadomasochism.

From the flesh «n neon confines of a local strip club, Chris entrusts Ansel with a sordid scheme to put himself back in the black.

* Tuesday also left city taxpayers covering the bill for two high profile losers with sordid pasts.

New Yorkers have a love affair with sordid politicians, and you can't get more sordid than those two.»

The mayor unveiled his committee on how the city should deal with the sordid histories of statues other public memorials, but it seems the group will recommend guidelines rather than committing a full review.

Even the world's most watched media organs could not but share their airtime to beam the colourful but disrupted inauguration of Trump in the US with the sordid drama playing out in one of the tiny corners of the Black continent, The Gambia.

Within the entertainment world in the UK, it began with the sordid child abuse revelations about Jimmy Saville, and it's featured other one - time heroes such as Bill Cosby along the way.

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

Not exact matches

A sordid trial is underway in Florida this week, pitting the debased former wrestler Hulk Hogan against the digital tabloid Gawker in a fight over a video showing Hogan having sex with his best friend's wife.

«There is a long and sordid history of people coming out of the woodwork with bogus claims when huge amounts of money are on the line,» Altman wrote.

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

There is a long and sordid history of people coming out of the woodwork with bogus claims when huge amounts of money are on the line.

By slinging insults with Trump, they are simply reducing themselves to his sordid level.

Weather modification has a long, sordid history and hurricanes have inspired some of the more far - fetched proposals, from bombarding cyclones with sonic booms from aircraft to beaming down microwaves from space into nascent storms.

And perhaps even close the lid on your sordid scandals with the priest.

A fresh round of sordid revelations will probably not hinder some evangelicals from the dream of golfing with our current president.

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.

No doubt money may have passed, but it is unlikely that so human, if so sordid, a motive as plain avarice had much to do with it.

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.

No real alternative to laissez - faire celebrations of the untrammeled operations of the market, then, can be found in most left - wing ideologies: both left and right are wedded to the culture of productivity and consumption and both have made their own sordid pact with the demons that threaten to destroy us.

[* Side note: That said, I did spend a sordid night hanging out with Tamlyn Tomita where she sexually molested me.

The French international pair engaged in some sordid goings on with prostitute Zahia Dehar — as did lesser known star Sidney Govou — and whilst prostitution is legal in France, it's not when the woman concerned is under 18...

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

Please read on though as I hope to make some salient points about this whole sordid affair, and by sordid affair I mean the act of trying to sell tabloid newspapers and not any «alleged» act with a prostitute.

England international Luke Shaw was seemingly so devastated by his side's World Cup exploits that he attempted to secure a sordid threesome with Playboy model Carla Howe and her twin sister Melissa according to The Sun.

Yoda has a sordid history with seagulls.

Their playoff in Montevideo was a sordid shambles, with four Celtic players and two Racing men ordered off the field for fouling and brawling.

In conclusion of this sordid and sorry affair the logical question one must ask is would the current management have persisted with a 17 year old called Francesco Totti?

There's no way that you'll pick up on every single sordid detail in this promenade - style production, but half of the fun is comparing notes with your friends in the lobby for post-show drinks.

An amazing week in the Justin Ross Harris murder trial: it started in the gutter with Ross Harris's strange and sordid sexual behavior and ended with blockbuster testimony by a defense witness and gripping video from the police station.

The brief appearance, which lasted 29 seconds, came amid a sordid swirl of reports about his alleged affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels and a thunderstorm of criticism over his beloved steel tariffs.

The sordid whiff of prurient homophobia disguised as concern for taxpayers» money coupled with a galling display of cant from our political opponents has managed to drive from office a man who true fiscal conservatives were proud to have as Chief Secretary.

The whole sordid tale was well known by the time Paladino's wife spoke about the affair and love child with the Times and the Post last week.

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

Deceptive Beauties by Christian Ziegler The sneaky, sordid, and seductive survival strategies of orchids are on display in this richly photographed book, with an introduction by Michael Pollan.

My sordid past My patients look at me with a mixture of incredulity and disbelief when I try to explain that I've been there.

The midi skirt is a garment that over the last 12 months I've engrossed myself in a sordid love affair with.

With their jousting silhouettes and mismatched prints and patterns, the clothes had an «I'll wear what I want» attitude, framed by the models» matted down, almost - sordid hair.