| He dragged open the door with great effort, then clung to its edge with one clenched hand, his body slumped soddenly to one side. |
| The opening scene, in which Tom and Maggie are established as ditzily misguided and Sue as a soddenly glum lost soul who was herself abandoned as an infant, is quite funny in a caricaturist mode. |
| In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring. |
| Actually, despite its soddenly melodramatic moments, a lot of About a Boy is quite funny. |
| The 11 tracks on his 12 th album plod soddenly, leaden of pace and bleak of atmosphere. |
| During that day and night the men slept soddenly, side by side on the boxcar door. |
