By withholding beauty, artists aimed to punish a culture of destruction for its own sordidness.

通过扣留美，艺术家的目的是惩罚肮脏的破坏的文化。

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His admiration goes out to the characters who defy the sordidness of life and, risking all the dangers of retribution, live beyond good and evil, in magnificence.

他对这样的人物充满敬佩之情；他们蔑视肮脏的生涯，并冒着遭受报复的危险，摆脱善与恶的羁绊，堂堂皇皇地活下去。

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Young men, while willing to concede the chaining sordidness of marriage, were hesitant about abandoning the organizations which they hoped would give them a career.

小伙子一方面愿意对婚姻带来的一连串可悲的后果让步，同时也舍不得放弃有希望给他们提供一份事业的组织机构。

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The sordidness of the sport is undeniable yet somehow nobility occasionally breaks through, as it did in the savage beating Braddock suffered when he lost his title to Joe Louis.

ECONOMIST: Professional boxing