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4.It’s well known that the world of entertainment has its seamy side: drug abuse, corruption, alcoholism …

5.The television documentary clearly described the seamy side of life in some places of America - with its alcoholics,tramps and prostitutes.
6.In our society now, the people become very greedy and seamy; the women give their clay only for loaves and fishes instead of real love.
7.This imbalance and almost one-way tape in understanding is surely the seamy side of the melting pot. We will never get to know about this unless we are really in it.
8.Su Shi goes further by putting forward the idea of "focusing on seamy sides of contemporary society", claiming that literature should be used to reveal social malpractices, so that measures could be taken to correct them.
9.Dreiser had a lively description of social life to reveal the seamy side oflife in some places of American society. The major theme of his works is to exposethe problems of life and social system in American way.

