The earl of Thornwald had reduced the intimate act of love to a sordid spectacle.

That sordid spectacle is made worse by the way the city has chosen to deal with the homeless.

The boy had paused after his first sight of the caravan, and now was following slowly in the wake of the sordid, brutal spectacle.

Mr. Singh today called it a "sordid" spectacle, as his former Deputy Prime Minister, Devi Lal, asked him to step down.

Never before had the graceful, gossamer, magical kingdom of figure skating encounter such a sordid spectacle as that of the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan clubbing incident.

Could he not open his eyes on a better scene, a less sordid spectacle?

Pointing a Finger The sordid spectacle moved some people on Washington Street who work as teachers, truckers, receptionists and factory workers to shout at their television sets.

It also exposed a deeply traditional country to a relentlessly sordid spectacle.

You may cringe as the guest spills all those seamy secrets, but you keep watching the sordid spectacle.