Wilentz told members of Congress that it " badly weakened the presidency " and served to " pave the way for the Gilded Age, an age of political sordidness and unremarkable chief executives ."
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This tension between portrayal of the contemporary world in all its sordidness, detached irony and the use of romantic images and themes would also influence the symbolists ( see below ) and would continue to the 20th century.
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So, too, does unrelenting sordidness, a deadly love angle and a score ( Ruben Blades ) almost as awful as Cy Coleman's sabotage of Lumet's " Family Business " ".
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The scene for the story Durell's narrator tells is the dusty, modern Alexandria of the 1930s, " an exotic city of constant interactions between cultures and religions ", and with a cultural milieu that mixes exceptional sophistication with equally remarkable sordidness.
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And in " Federal Hill, " a 1994 movie about crime and family in the Italian-American section by that name in Providence, R . I ., a young man caught up in the sordidness muses about a near-escape.
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Anyway, I'm a male heterosexual, and I can definitely appreciate many kinds of depictions of scantily-clad beautiful women, yet I have little interest in most kinds of straight-up porn, because overt tawdry sordidness is a turn-off for me.
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Directed by Joel Schumacher, whom many haven't forgiven for any number of other films _ " A Time to Kill, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Falling Down " _ " 8MM " has a strange gleam of professionalism despite its sordidness.
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Unfortunately, Rosenberg and Felder cannot think of anything interesting to do with this strong cast and evocative underworld atmosphere except rub our noses in violence, plumb new depths of sordidness ( especially in the Treat Williams character, who likes to eat human excrement ), and leave us wondering why we wasted our time.
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Outside of the fact that this drama gets a little tiring in spots in its two hours and forty minutes, most of which is spent in court it is well nigh flawless as a picture of an American court at work, of small-town American characters and of the average sordidness of crime ."
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Steve Forbes, the magazine publisher who is preparing his second run for the Republican presidential nomination, fired up the crowd, saying, " Has there ever been a sharper contrast between the goodness of America and the corruption and the shadiness and the sordidness that we have in the White House today ?"
