Creation was over; remained now the sordid business of getting her book published.

Then, a flashback to the beginning of the whole sordid business.

I thought we'd mastered him without the sordid business of a fight.

So he left that sordid business to find something interesting to do.

And yet, look: out of such a sordid business comes beauty.

He's too good to get mixed up in this sordid business.

Still, he did have one thing; that rather sordid business about the unknown young woman.

I do not know where this sordid business will take me when I next vote.

What kind of sordid business are you on now?

I'm sure this sordid business has nothing to do with us, or our son.