It was only 20 years later, after the senator had dug through the files and read the trial transcripts, that he dared to bring up the sordid event with his father.

Associate Justice Joseph Grodin's opinion referred to Allen's crimes as "sordid events" with an "extraordinarily massive amount" of aggravating evidence.

The Wengerts, who said the boy's parents had never mentioned these sordid events, charged betrayal by a legal system that keeps such information under wraps.

"Those who have attempted to reduce Miss Duke's life to sordid events have not prevailed," Mr. Lafferty said.

This is just one of many notable sordid events at the location.

But in realistically depicting the sordid events to which the play's characters allude, the film diminishes their mythical hold on our imaginations.

Those ghastly, sordid events seemed less dreadful when put into words.

He has also written several books on some of the more sordid events in the history of Bristol, his home town, as well as guides to rugby.

Mr. Silver has also not been directly tainted by some of the more sordid events of late.

But in the light of sordid events, what was distinguished by its unadulterated outrageousness, when it opened last June, has now acquired a ghoulish reality.