sordidness

• “Even the food at meals had that awful dreary sordidness which is so repulsive to a young thing coming from abroad.”

  The Virgin and the Gypsy

• “All about me were still the same sordidness and wretchedness, and up above me was still the same paradise waiting to be gained; but the ladder whereby to climb was a different one.”

  What Life Means to Me

• “Nowhere do we find more vividly portrayed the psychology of the persons that lived in that turbulent period embraced between the years 1912 and 1932 -- their mistakes and ignorance, their doubts and fears and misapprehensions, their ethical delusions, their violent passions, their inconceivable sordidness and selfishness.”

  Jack London: The Iron Heel

• “No room here for all the sordidness, meanness, and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence.”

  Chapter VIII

• “Francisco, with its restless shipping, belching factories, and thundering traffic, did not confuse her; instead, she comprehended swiftly the pitiful sordidness of Twenty Mile and the skin-lodged”

  THE STORY OF JEES UCK

• “Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit; for here flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented.”

  What Life Means to Me

• “* Addressing the dinner guests, Rabbi Jacob Rothschild said, “You gather to honor a man but you honor a city as well, a Southern city that has risen above the sordidness of hate and prejudice.””

  Simon & Schuster: Burial for a King

• “We are shown the corrida in all its sordidness and cruelty.”

  Monster of Marriage

• “For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered.”

  Chapter 11: The Great Adventure

• “He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall.”

  Chapter 3

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