Word: sordidness
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...know." His words weren't enough to dent the outrage of Muslims who wondered why he failed to apologize. A day later Bush finally said he was sorry, but America's image in much of the Arab world may well be irredeemable. U.S. officials tried to portray the sordid scenes as the isolated acts of a few low-ranking soldiers who were violating U.S. policy. The military, they pointed out, has already rooted out the offenders and is disciplining them. "Please don't for a moment think that's the entire U.S. military, because it's not," said Brigadier General...
...overused phrase, but Norman Lear's soap-opera satire, which debuted in 1976, would work on HBO today. Louise Lasser is the eponymous housewife, anesthetized by TV and horrified by the "waxy yellow buildup" on her kitchen floor. The show immerses you in a surreal, quaint-but-sordid small-town setting that makes Desperate Housewives look like Leave It to Beaver...
...isn’t afraid to offend: it’s clear from the beginning that she has a mouth dirtier than Mexican water and an attitude to boot. She’s a living, breathing, rehab-hopping, cussing train wreck who lays it all out there for us, sordid and unashamed. In “Me and Mr. Jones,” a cute bluesy ditty with a horn section and back up singers, Winehouse off-handedly sings, “What kind of fuckery is this? / Nowadays you don’t mean dick...
...Americans an average rebate of $75,800, and middle-income families a mere $1,100—are grossly “unfair.” Each claim is no doubt true, but they appeal to two distinct, and incommensurable, conceptions of justice. It’s a sordid number game: percentages versus absolute figures...
...incident Wilson was involved in was inarguably sordid. The New Year's Eve teenage sex party that resulted in his arrest was video-taped, and those six hours of footage were presented to the jury that convicted him. Wilson and five other teen boys were charged with engaging in oral sex with the 15-year-old girl and also charged with the rape of a 17-year-old girl at an Atlanta motel. Four of Wilson's co-defendants accepted plea offers and avoided trial, and a fifth accepted a deal the morning of the trial's opening day. Wilson...