The sordidness of the place seems to have worked a spell on him: he is content here.
这个臭气熏天的地方对他产生了魔力,他对这儿很满意。
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。
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.