1 I have seen much inhumanity, cheating, corruption, sordidness and selfishness but I have not become cynical.

2 Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit...

3 Young men, while willing to concede the chaining sordidness of marriage, were hesitant about abandoning the organizations which they hoped would give them a career.

4 This soul-poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution.

5 By withholding beauty, artists aimed to punish a culture of destruction for its own sordidness.

6 And without--the frontier warfare; the yearning of a boy, cast ashore upon a desert of newness and ugliness and sordidness, for all that is chastened and old, and noble with traditions.

7 His admiration goes out to the characters who defy the sordidness of life and, risking all the dangers of retribution, live beyond good and evil, in magnificence.