1.   And a tawdry world it is, too.

2.   It tells the world Kansas City can pursue really serious big-time dreams that transcend the often tawdry world of professional sports.

3.   Shoate finally entered the tawdry world of homosexual prostitution and sold his body at the old Greyhound bus station on St. James Avenue in Boston.

4.   We segue here from the tawdry world of presidential largess to the cruel world of unconnected New Yorkers, the world of Bao Zhu Chen Liu.