The story of victory of Jamal in grimy settings touches the basest emotions in man. From Wordnik.com. [Sold to the basest emotions] Reference
He stayed based in grimy Marseilles, instead of resettling in Paris and becoming part of its scene and myth. From Wordnik.com. [Gopnik's Daily Pic: Monticelli, van Gogh's godfather] Reference
Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-Four] Reference
He entered a large office, very grimy, which is the proper condition of a place where documents concerning coal are dealt with. From Wordnik.com. [Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918] Reference
In one word I'd call it "grimy". From Wordnik.com. [Happy Hump Day] Reference
"Yes, kind of grimy -- the kind that gits in and stays.". From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
I'm talking about the kind of grimy, bare-knuckles municipal greed that Warner Brothers used to make movies about in thirties. From Wordnik.com. [Back Home In Delhi] Reference
Here's a good example, actually, of this kind of grimy, smudgy industrial landscape with some forlorn strings painted on the top of it. From Wordnik.com. [Bach, Ballet And 1-Bit Symphonies: New Classical CDs] Reference
Derrick Rose used to use the word "grimy" during training camp. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
Manning will indeed be hit in the mouth by those "grimy" Saints. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
He is not made of mud, even though he is very dirty and kind of grimy looking. From Wordnik.com. [Popular in the last 8 hours] Reference
Saints defense takes pride in 'grimy' reputation by Dan Bickley - Feb. 4, 2010 05: 28 PM. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
The Not For Tourists Guide to London calls Archway "grimy", Holloway "grotty" and one of the area's best-known pubs "pretentious". From Wordnik.com. [A blog for Finsbury Park] Reference
"I can live here," he says, gesturing at the grimy green walls. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Wind] Reference
Walking toward the grimy glass door, Steve hands me the jar of quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Small Change] Reference
They say that when I find a pair I like, I hang on to them like a grimy crab. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Wore His Heart On His Shoes] Reference
Dr. Lipman has written on the grimy subject, explaining why he wears bow ties. From Wordnik.com. [7 things dirtier than money] Reference
A hundred years later "The Starry Night" turns up at a yard sale, a grimy orphan. From Wordnik.com. [Ansel Adams And the Art World Name Game] Reference
The small window facing the patio is so grimy, I can't always tell when it's raining. From Wordnik.com. [Good Belongs to You] Reference
The metal zipper of the bag, sour and dirtied by grimy hands and oiled by palm sweat. From Wordnik.com. [A Jeep Wrangler, a moped, a bank bag, Woody Guthrie and stained teeth] Reference
Old men in skullcaps covered their faces with grimy handkerchiefs, hiding their tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Big One] Reference
After they'd walked for a half-hour through the grimy streets of East L.A. From Wordnik.com. [MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK] Reference
Kwangju and Ulsan have few hotels at all, and plan to renovate grimy motels and small inns. From Wordnik.com. [The Armchair Critic] Reference
He hurried over to where my mother crouched on the grimy tile floor beside her fallen cake. From Wordnik.com. [How My Parents Fell In Love] Reference
His bones stick out into his grimy undershirt, which is all he wears over patched tan trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Reunion] Reference
A few grimy coasters dotted the bar around us, and black plastic ashtrays sat unused at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Thieves] Reference
It is not the tight space, made tighter by rows of grimy helmets and the false cheer of billowing flags. From Wordnik.com. ['They Never Did Come Back'] Reference
Clothes Sure, Manhattanites all wear black: see how long your pastel pantsuits last on grimy NYC streets. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, Remember Me? I'm Al Gore., Wicked Worm Eats] Reference
The commotion was surreal for a man who trains "in a grimy Rocky gym where you come out dirty and sweaty". From Wordnik.com. [Dai Greene and Andy Turner are reluctant gold medal celebrities] Reference
Boutiques, beauty salons and sushi bars remain open along grimy downtown avenues named for Lenin, Marx and Engels. From Wordnik.com. [Fear Comes to the Russian Heartland] Reference
But it's his crusade to expose Wall Street's grimy side that has gotten the most attention, and not just in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping A Close Eye On Wall Street] Reference
Still, as a respite from the grimy hectoring of much contemporary art, this show reaffirms the quiet joys of civilized painting. From Wordnik.com. [Life With The Proper Painter] Reference
A recent visitor to Tirana recalls meeting a young university student dressed in grimy pants and a torn shirt -- the only clothes he owned. From Wordnik.com. [Leaping To Freedom] Reference
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