1.   An ability to acknowledge our own imperfections and close the book on sordid chapters without assuming God-like properties of vengeance has kept us afloat.

2.   He saw one sordid chapter last spring when he tried, unsuccessfully, to get his contract renegotiated.

3.   He would walk out of the courtroom and drive off, watching this sordid chapter of his young life fade to nothing in the rearview mirror.

4.   The public has had its fill of this sordid chapter, in between being titillated and repulsed as each episode has been reported.

5.   This is called closure in sports, and Nelson seemed as ready as anyone to put behind this sordid chapter in his otherwise sparkling career.

6.   This sordid little chapter will haunt him more than the rape conviction.