Exempel på sordidness

• They looked up and down the river, with its amazing mixture of beauty and almost incredible sordidness.

• "We must have at least one good servant, or the daily sordidness would make you miserable," he said.

• The plans were a response to the dank, crowded sordidness of the Victorian slum.

• Legalization would take much of the sordidness out of the business.

• the sordidness and corruption of party politics

• Both in the reminiscences of the old residents and in the official discourse, gundilong was widely described in terms of its impoverishment, sordidness and maleficence.

• Who has not paused then to consider the sordidness of human affairs and the vanity of human wishes?

• By reflecting so much the sordidness of life, the broadcast is helping to mould public opinion; there is no question about that.

• We have been living among ugliness, sordidness, and the effects of industrialism.

• Who was it who brought up the subject of the sordidness of money and cash limits?

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The sordidness of the plot overpowered the credibility of the characters and the film was spurned by public and critics.

• That it's taking place at a time of war only magnifies its sordidness.

• 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.