There is only sorrow in people making believe _ sorrow and sordidness in stories of invincible Peter Pan fairy-godmother worlds.
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Yet darkness and sordidness is what made film noir such a refreshing change from the movies'sentimentality during the war years.
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"It's a tale of personalities, but the sordidness of it to me is we lost our team ."
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It is also the most self-conscious, as locations, lighting style, and art direction constantly underscore the sordidness of the milieu.
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Given the sordidness of Jones's story, one may wonder what sustains the reader's interest in John's downward spiral toward destruction.
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In a country where women are often held up as symbols of purity, Flores has mobilized people fed up with the sordidness of Fujimori's regime.
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The sordidness of the affair caused Monet to give up his lifelong project of immortalizing his native land and to retreat into a world of his own making.
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Maybe this was my mistake, not to " fight fight fight " at the time, but I was relieved that sordid unpleasantness and unpleasant sordidness were over.
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But even if he were acquitted, the sordidness of his case would likely have been enough to fire him, or at least pay him off but never let him work.
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At a Republican gathering in Biloxi, Miss ., a year ago, Forbes described the " shadiness and sordidness that we have in the White House today ."