sordidity

It would seem from this description that Never Let Me Go is a work of unremitting bleakness and gratuitous sordidity.

Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011

Not enthusiastic about comics that suggest a worldview of sordidity or depravity to me, be they never so well-executed in any other way.

NYCC ‘09: A Conversation With Dan DiDio — The Home Game! 2009

If it is true that there are books written to escape from the present moment, and its meanness and its sordidity, it is certainly true that readers are familiar with a corresponding mood.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Perhaps the old sordidity, the fog and the paraffin, and the drunken landlady, was not the only reality; ugliness is not the whole truth; there is an element of beauty in the world.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

How Shakespeare loathed humanity — the putting on of clothes, the getting of children, the sordidity of the mouth and the belly!

Mrs. Dalloway 2003

The realistic sordidity of the former balanced against the breathless adventure of the latter, combine in stamping Spout as a genius of the highest order.

Terribly Intimate Portraits Noel Coward 1936

The scene in the cemetery, for instance, with its brilliancy, its sordidity, its incoherence, its sudden lightning flashes of significance, does undoubtedly come so close to the quick of the mind that, on a first reading at any rate, it is difficult not to acclaim a masterpiece.

The Common Reader 1925

Transition periods are difficult, and China has been troubled by those who in their enthusiasm for change have lost the sense of proportion, and sought to revolutionise much that is dearer than life itself to many of their countrymen; nevertheless, this great nation, permeated with ideals so free from sordidity, will surely carve for herself a future worthy of her past.

The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow Mildred Cable 1915

As mentioned in an earlier crit, the unusual presentation of a drab and colourless sixties really creates an atmosphere of sordidity and the authentic sets added to this (... don't you just HATE it when you mumble under your breath

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