Somehow this open question captures the discordant tone of a book and a persona divided between the baroquely public and the queasily cloacal, seamy details and Dawn's romance-novel locutions.

In an often blunt narrative intended as an argument for Congress to impeach the President, the report offers passages of seamy details and subterfuges that read like pulp fiction.

Is it in the President's interests for his lawyer to be constantly reminding the public of the seamy details of the case?

Whatever happened to the Puritanical scrim once thought to filter out the seamier details from the drama of American political life?

His surprise attack on both the defendant's son and the victim highlighted the seamier details of the case.

It walks on the wild side with brief and startling violence, fleeting nudity, sexual situations and redolent seamy details.

Ira Lessing seemed like a paragon of virtue to the upstanding citizens of Cincinnati - until his disappearance revealed some of the seamier details of his life.

Both U.S. News and Newsweek advise on how to explain the seamy details to your kids (be honest yet elliptical; whatever you do, don't talk about the cigar).

As a result of such revelations, Ms. Kelley's observations tend to feel like embroidery work: just more seamy and painful details that may or may not be true.

As the seamy details continued to unfold, Pope became actually nervous, for the picture of family life being offered was not at all what he wished to see.