His themes come from his personal interactions with its urban milieu - its sickness and sordidness, its violence and vulnerability and all that compounds its existential agony.
That it's taking place at a time of war only magnifies its sordidness.
The sordidness of the plot overpowered the credibility of the characters and the film was spurned by public and critics.
That can only come about when society recognises the sordidness of its material standards and assesses value not for what is given but what is got.
This is the sort of amenity one associates with pictures by artists who are determined to present the sordidness but reality of life in an industrial area.
Everywhere we can see that towns are getting as large as they ought to be if they are not to become places of ugliness and sordidness.
Who was it who brought up the subject of the sordidness of money and cash limits?
We have been living among ugliness, sordidness, and the effects of industrialism.
