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"Come where there is some freshness, for a few moments," he said; "that house is a mere dungeon: don't you feel it so?""It seems to me a splendid mansion, sir.""The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes," he answered; "and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.

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Hollywood has a sordid history of casting able-bodied actors to play disabled onscreen.

And so this raises the question, and so, as Smith puts it, "When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?"

There are some millennials, for instance, who think the whole business is just sordid.

So there's been a long and sordid history of bringing color underwater, and it starts 88 years ago with Bill Longley and Charles Martin, who were trying to take the first underwater color photograph.

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