That's why hunters, in a deeply atavistic act, take trophies, so that they then posses some piece, however sordidly acquired, of the natural order. |
Then the two candles guttered fitfully, sordidly, just as they had always done. |
I should like to see it set up any old how, sordidly abstract as nature is, for the Estragons and Vladimirs, a place of suffering, sweaty and fishy, where sometimes a turnip grows, or a ditch opens up. |
Jay and Claire, who meet rather anonymously and sordidly once a week, apparently know nothing about each other's life. |
Theatrical society, rather than the theatre, has made the lives of actors as we see them in these volumes, in many cases so tragic, even sordidly tragic. |
Something ironically vulgar, sordidly tragic has seemed to creep into my relations with Judith. |