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sordidness
1. ’ He pauses but he’s obviously not finished so I don’t interrupt, ‘Then, when I’d looked face on at the mess I’ve made of my life, this presence or whatever it was, wiped away all the nastiness, … the … the sordidness and showed me the love and the positive things
2. José Arcadio, who left the seminary as soon as he reached Rome, continued nourishing the legend of theology and canon law so as not to jeopardize the fabulous inheritance of which his mother’s delirious letters spoke and which would rescue him from the misery and sordidness he shared with two friends in a Trastevere garret
3. He gave up his nice, comfortable curacy in Kensington, took vows and made her take them, turned his back and made her turn hers, forever on everything except self-denial, and settled in the poorest part of Bethnal Green, using its sordidness as if it were a hair shirt
4. Doubtless they were sordid; and for the majority, who are not lofty, there is no escape from sordidness but by being free from money-craving, with all its base hopes and temptations, its watching for death, its hinted requests, its horse-dealer's desire to make bad work pass for good, its seeking for function which ought to be another's, its compulsion often to long for Luck in the shape of a wide calamity
5. The truth was that after all the dirty tricks she had done for him, after so much sordidness endured for him, she had moved on in life and was far beyond his twenty-year advantage in age: she had grown too old for him
6. The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness
7. Oh, you self-satisfied persons who, in your unctuous pride, are forever ready to mouth your maxims—if only you knew how fully I myself comprehend the sordidness of my present state, you would not trouble to wag your tongues at me! What could you say to me that I do not already know? Well, wherein lies my difficulty? It lies in the fact that by a single turn of a roulette wheel everything for me, has become changed