| 单词 | tattered |
| 例句 | Even though our schoolbooks are tattered and old, we aren’t allowed to bring them home. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He was dressed in tattered clothing and his face was dirty, a red gash taking up most of his cheek. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It's been folded many times over, carried in so many pockets, that the creases are soft and tattered. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They watched in disbelief as several dozen large, hairy humanoids passed by, dressed in tattered bits of armor and animal fur. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She was skinny as a rail, with a tattered shirt and trousers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I can tell from their tattered uniforms that they are POWs from the Colonies. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Velia asked her twin, pulling an old tattered sweater out of the cluttered closet. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He reached under his frock and pulled out a tattered, well-worn copy of the catechism book. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray wall-to-wall carpeting. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The first time I visited Bien and Alex at home, I was invited to sit down on a tattered sofa in the living room. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Their fine silk dresses were now tattered and faded. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Ms. Udell leaned against her giant desk, reading to her fourth-grade class from a tattered copy of Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The cannons of his adversary were thundering in the tattered morning when the Majesty of England drew himself up to meet the future with a peaceful heart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The desk is bare except for a black phone, a fat, tattered logbook, and a pile of watches and handkerchiefs and necklaces crumpled down on one comer. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I remembered my dream the night before—the bloody old man in tattered robes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Old wicker lawn furniture, tattered fruit baskets, a large, cracked headboard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Dunbar broke through and leaped up furiously on the soldier in white’s bed to see for himself, pressing his gleaming eye down hungrily against the tattered black hole in the shell of white bandages. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Next to him, a wiry man in a tattered suit juggles two oranges and a grapefruit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A man in tattered clothes stands hunched over in the doorway. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Plastic bags, shorts, and underwear hang from the boughs like tattered Christmas ornaments. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He was six years old, and he was reading a tattered book about Pedro el Conejo, who got trapped in Senor MacGregor’s garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a church there and a saloon, and in back of the saloon an added-on frame shack building with a tattered movie screen and a battery-operated small film projector. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Charlie reached into his back pocket and pulled out a tattered and taped piece of lined spiral notebook paper. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Casting his tattered cloak aside, he stood up and leaned no longer on his staff; and he spoke in a clear cold voice. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "We shall correct that, and leave him tattered and torn!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He liked oversized hooded sweatshirts with tattered cuffs—the more tattered, the better. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And yet, I think right now the best place for me to be is the chasm between the tattered edges of life as we knew it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Huddled next to it was a dejected-looking boy in tattered jeans, a black shirt, and an old aviator jacket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Both Jeanne and Jacob silently resolved to grab as many of those old, tattered volumes as they could carry as soon as Michelangelo’s diversion began. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z On the rocks of the rapids below it searchers discovered the bodies of five more, and also a long black cloak, slashed and tattered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Percy looked down at his tattered orange T-shirt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He sat down next to Dill and pulled out his tattered copy of Bloodfall. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z At the end of the bed, Tony’s other little sister, Marie, was curled up under a tattered blanket. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with blood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He wears tattered clothes in different colors—a black T-shirt with a torn Abnegation jacket over it, blue jeans mended with red thread, brown boots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He was no older than twelve, and his scraped knees, tattered shoes, and windblown hair spoke of a life spent dodging wagons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he remembered his windbreaker and he found the tattered part he used for an arrow pouch. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s big and bulky, all wrapped up in a tattered jacket even though the central heating is on full blast. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Wisps of fog clung like tattered rags to the trees, and then the forest cleared. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He went inside, cleaned his teeth with a finger and some toothpaste from his tattered bag, fell on the double bed, and was asleep in a moment. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His robe was tattered and dirty, but it might have been the proper grey long ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was a thin man who could have been any age, dressed in a drab and tattered business suit, and he was holding a pencil and a sheaf of papers held together with a clip. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I took it out of my tattered plastic bag, holding my free hand high to show I was unarmed, and slowly approached. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The question sours in my mouth as he turns back to yanking the rest of the tattered plants. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “If we go all over the building looking, we can probably find you things that aren’t so tattered. A lamp from one apartment, a table from another.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Isolated, torpid, tattered little Durham had become the envy of the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When my father brought me there each month, Mister Iponga would drape me in a tattered sheet and say, “What will it be?” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z His eyes appraised me, taking in the damp hair, the tattered shirt. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A hulking frame in tattered clothing steps into the light of the second doorway, its head hanging unnaturally to one side. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The tattered oilcompany roadmap had once been taped together but now it was just sorted into leaves and numbered with crayon in the corners for their assembly. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z One had tattered chairs, scattered sets of wrinkled magazines, and wobbly tables. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was too tall for the tattered trousers that stopped long before his black boots started. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Pirate Tree was still standing, but now only blackened wisps tattered its branches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” I tell him, and I suppose I am sorry—for him, for his tattered life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I shrugged and glanced down at my tattered shoes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I look at Patches, toppled over on his side, ragged and worn, all alone on the floor except for a lone truffle, resting against his tattered leg. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He was American, just like the friendly, longhaired men and women we always saw hanging around in Kabul, dressed in their tattered, brightly colored shirts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He threw on a tattered blue flannel shirt and a pair of worn blue jeans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The left and right hems of his tattered shirt were sticky with blood, as if a javelin had run him through. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The man’s clothes are tattered and so dirty there’s no telling what color they were originally. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I was wearing a bra, but it was nearly tattered away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But they were laughing like travelers crossing a great river on a tattered rope bridge, finding that the rotted boards beneath their feet were, for the moment, holding. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He’s leading a golden retriever on a tattered leash while his parents follow behind. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z My first instinct was to run and change my tattered dress for something nicer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The shelves running around the circular walls were crammed with dusty-looking feathers, stubs of candles, many packs of tattered playing cards, countless silvery crystal balls, and a huge array of teacups. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A bunch of young men in tattered coats and hats were pelting each other with balls of ice, roaring with laughter like kids having a snowball fight. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Displayed behind him were the tattered, frozen banners of a Roman legion, including a large, golden eagle with its wings spread. fVe await you, the giant’s voice boomed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Percy picked up a book at random—a tattered copy of A History of Horseracing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He held out a tattered leather cord, and the breath caught in my throat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The villagers were kneeling: men, women, and chil-dren, alike tattered and bloody, their faces drawn by fear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The only remains on the glacier were the main gates, which listed sideways, and a tattered blue banner lying over a pile of snow-bricks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A filthy man, his hair a mess and his clothes tattered. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He chuckled, got out a tattered ledger volume, and scribbled a note to himself. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Tall, blue-black dark, and dressed in cargo pants, paint-stained boots, and a tattered brown sweater. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He wanted to be in the mobile home on his hard mattress and feel the gentle weight of the tattered blanket press against his body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He sighed as he pictured the tattered nursery rhyme book in the box by Boots’s crib at home. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He glanced at the St. Anthony’s suitcase waiting patiently on his tattered bedspread. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z My tattered old bra, the one I’d had since eighth grade, was on display. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The seats were tattered, and there was an awful smell of chemicals and oil and the loud sound of the engine roaring as the bus pulled away from the curb. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And it hadn’t been a heap of rags after all; it was a gray-bearded man, chained to the wall, whose eyes glittered in Pantalaimon’s luminance, and whose tattered hair hung over his shoulders. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In Pakistan I saw enough kids in tattered clothes with their hands outstretched to finally understand why my parents always insist that Mustafa and I don’t leave the house in anything torn or dirty. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Another was collecting what was left of the tattered books from the ground, with the friars’ help, to bring them back to the pyre. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But everything about them was tattered and crusted in dust. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The more she thought about that, the more she feared that the woman in the tattered green dress would return and claim them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I pulled it out and fumbled with its tattered leather straps. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It seemed wrong to eat like this when people were going hungry in that tattered tent city outside Cathair’s walls. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Some carried the tattered lightning bolt banners of the Twelfth Legion, Fifth Cohort—Michael Varus’s doomed expedition from the 1980s. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was the same one O’Dell’s mom had made for us nearly three years before, a little tattered but still serviceable. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was prepared to reveal whatever was required for him to take me seriously, which would have probably been significant given how tattered and desperate he thought I was. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There was an oldfashioned drugstore there with a black marble counter and chrome stools with tattered plastic seats patched with electrical tape. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Nobody gave anything, nobody had anything to give; the men in loincloths, the women in saris tattered and sodden like mine. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He recognized them: there were tattered scrolls in the vaults of Stormhold in which those knives were pictured, and their names were given. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I had nothing to carry, so I filled my pockets with oranges, tied the laces of my tattered crapes, and I was ready to go. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Slowly he began to peel away the tattered remains of his cloak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On one street corner, three boys had already settled in for the night, huddled together on a tattered straw mat behind a dumpster. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The bard wrapped himself in his own tattered garment and set his harp carefully on a gnarled root. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z My dress is dirty and tattered at the hem, my feet are sore and cold. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She held up the tattered red ball, and probably came to the same conclusion I did—if she rewarded Cerberus, there’d be nothing left for another trick. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Their cloaks were rent and tattered before they broke free at last. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s an entire elephant,” jested a beady-eyed, one-armed man in tattered pants and without a shirt, referring to our package. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The witch’s eyes moved from Scabbers’s tattered left ear to his front paw, which had a toe missing, and tutted loudly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The canvas tore even further, the tattered material flapping wildly. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “For treasure. Like this. Glass or metal scraps are best. The waste mart man will even buy cardboard and cloth if they’re not too tattered.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I laid the tattered book, its pages warped from the shed’s dampness, beside Lassie. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She had dark, wavy hair and wore a tattered gray coat. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A man came through the doorway brushing his hands on the front of his tattered robe. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Uncounted layers of drab brown paint covered her hull; her sails were grey and tattered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There's the tattered mattress Eden's on, and next to it is the scratched-up chest of drawers that I used to doodle on. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She went to her room and came back with a tattered shoebox. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Except for his tattered clothes and a few layers of dirt and grime, he looked as if he’d never fallen into Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He gave Omakayas two smooth sticks to clack together to frighten the flocks, and Angeline his tattered old shirt to flap in the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He took a small revenge in the matter of his riding fur, a tattered bearskin, old and musty-smelling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A tattered American flag still flies atop a pole in the center of the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z In the short time since I had passed, the foliage of the White Mountains had changed and tattered. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I went inside and dropped my backpack on Gus’s tattered easy chair. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I picked my way through the dwindling crowd, the lame beggars dressed in layers of tattered rags, the vendors with rugs on their shoulders, the cloth merchants and butchers closing shop for the day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The wind that tugged at Cole’s tattered clothing seemed distant. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The cloud was swirling on the southern flank of the mountain, and long tattered banners of vapor streamed out in the powerful winds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her jeans were tattered, held together with safety pins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I was about to part them when Saidu pointed to the tattered bag at the edge of the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I glanced down at my clothes, which were scorched, burned, sliced, and tattered from my night of constant battles. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The first sign of trouble had been Kalo waving a tattered red umbrella and chasing his four attack dogs along the inside perimeter of the fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the center, about twenty yards away, knelt the gruesome figure of a woman, her clothes tattered, her limbs emaciated, her skin leathery green. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The only navigational aid in his possession was a tattered state road map he’d scrounged at a gas station. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a woman struggling and failing to hold the tattered shreds of her life together. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Luma betrayed no reaction other than to adjust her tattered white Smith College baseball cap. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z While Archer lay on the cabin’s long table with the tattered remains of his shirt sheared away, Sefia watched Doc tend to his wounds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Even though I could see it was a little tattered, mine was so beautiful because it was mine. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I must have looked like a homeless kid, with my tattered clothes and my scraped-up face. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In the centre of the atrium, a grey-skinned ghoul in a tattered Greek tunic paraded through the crowd, holding a marble bust over his head like a sports trophy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z To Jacob, these tattered ones were the most beautiful of all. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She carried her breath in a glass inhaler in her tattered handbag. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled out his tattered copy of Things Fall Apart, and the cover caught on something and tore off. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Vivi holds up her silvery gray dress, with its tattered edges, sparing a smile for me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Percy had shown up in a tattered orange shirt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Her tattered cheerleader outfit was splattered with rusty-brown stains, and Percy was pretty sure they weren’t ketchup. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A tattered veil covered his face, He was standing in a dank cave, lit only by torches. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And if ever my faith in the essential saintliness of humans becomes tattered, I shall think of that evil-looking man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone else had lived here after I had been taken—there was a tattered scarf I didn’t remember, and a red blanket that hadn’t been mine. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Not tattered and marked like the student workbooks. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He’s wearing a Foo Fighters T-shirt, pajama pants, and a pair of moccasins—total suburban white boy—but he’s so hot, I’d like him even if he wore a tattered garbage sack. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She started wishing the woman in the tattered green dress would come back and claim her twins. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I picked up the sad, tattered souvenir, hearing her wails in my head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Now, however, though the town is slightly tattered—Ossining is far from the most desirable address in Westchester—housing prices have pushed out practically all state correction officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of wet earth comes to me from those thumbed and tattered pages, the sour tang of moorland peat, the feel of soggy moss spattered white in places by a heron’s droppings. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z From behind the tattered altar cloth he produced a loaf of barley bread and gave it to me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Since my father’s death, my mother had made the tattered brown leather couch in the living room her bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It was bald, with tattered ears, a narrow chest, a pot belly, and shriveled, spindly limbs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I hand him the tattered piece of paper that says possible. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Behind him stood a collection of ruined emblems, tattered banners, and a large golden eagle on a staff of iron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On the last set of stairs to the top floor, Joseph ducked beneath faded, tattered laundry that hung from lines like ghosts. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Many of them come from the tattered edges of tropical rain forest, or they come from tropical savanna that is being settled rapidly by people. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z About his tattered clothes and golden skin and funny gray eyes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A nurse appeared and disappeared through the tattered- curtained doctor’s door. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore it well, springing lightly along like a huge, tattered bear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Up close, Alfred could see Bud Martin's ribs pushing through his tattered T-shirt. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Petey could have been a bee or a butterfly with her tattered silver wings veined with gold, the silver mask hiding her face. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She quickened her pace on the dusty stretch that led to the main road, but five of them, all in tattered army uniforms, soon surrounded her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Today she was dressed in tattered jeans, worn-out sneakers, and a white tank top with pink Hello Kitty designs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He folded his tattered orange T-shirt and left it on his bunk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z After that she had plunged headlong into the only other reading matter available, Hannah’s tattered Bible. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z From this very window where she stood now, Mrs. Trepid had spotted the woman, bundled in a tattered and faded green dress, bending over the box. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z His skin is filthy and sunburnt, his clothes tattered. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He has bruises and cuts all over, and his fatigues hang in dull, tattered strips. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Those two tattered rags were literal pieces of her mother, the only things she had left now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She looked down at her tattered nightgown and flannel robe. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Clouds streaked the sky like tattered banners, grey and white and tom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I cross my arms and look away, embarrassed of my tattered shift, of the dirt, the cuts, the damage. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The untended cows trampled into the palaces of the gods, and the gods themselves began to wear tattered robes because there was no cloth from which to make new ones. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side was a closed-down gas station, a tattered billboard for a 1990s movie, and one open business, which was the source of the neon light and the good smell. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Most of them wore tattered Ancient Greek dresses, except for the one in the lead, Kelli, who wore a burned and torn blouse with a short pleated skirt...her cheerleader’s outfit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her legs were so impossibly thin, her clothes as tattered as the beggars in the Grin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Once he had us inside the dimly lit, bare living room, Karim locked the front door, pulled the tattered sheets that passed for curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In one of the boxes was a tattered, fabric-covered logbook from the Office of Indian Affairs cataloging the names of guardians during the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The other was a teenage Hispanic guy in tattered camouflage pants and a dirty black T-shirt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We were in the backwoods of New Jersey, on a crumbling road lined with run-down businesses and tattered billboard signs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A dozen other Augurs are arrayed around the dais, tattered shadows who darken the stadium with their very presence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Corporal’s green jacket, which had begun the day before in poor-enough condition, was now torn about the shoulder, exposing tattered lining. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z One day, Gandhi later explained/'a man in tattered clothes, headgear in hand, two front teeth broken and his mouth bleeding, stood before me trembling and weeping.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Inside the elevator, she pressed against Zakariyya, one hand leaning on her cane, the other gripping her tattered dictionary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And, most of all, that frayed and tattered letter stuck to my chest like a scar. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Our clothes are tattered and have not been washed in weeks. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, we soon spotted two men with guns and tattered clothes. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The tattered canvas beckoned as the only handhold on the otherwise smooth ship. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d put on a big padded suit that he’d made out of pillows, a tattered movers’ blanket, and a pair of puffy winter parkas. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Our caretaker hurries into the room, a tattered robe draped over his pajamas. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z His clothes were tattered, barely hanging on; a bloody, thick bandage covered half his head and face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Yet even in his tattered black pajama shirt and pants, with his weathered face and sad eyes, I still see the brother I knew in Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no conductor or policeman in sight, only an old lady with a walker slowly trudging toward the stairs and, at the far end of the platform, a sleeping bum in tattered sneakers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She reached over the edge of the chair and pawed at a stack of books, grabbing a thin, tattered paperback. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Miles stood at the window, still holding that tattered black notebook. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z A boy in a thin shirt and thin tattered trousers walked out of the darkness on bare feet. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We ran into barefoot children in tattered clothes rummaging through waste bins. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z When they came to Bill Ferny’s house they saw that the hedge there was tattered and unkempt, and the windows were all boarded up. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I flicked a tattered leaf off my skirt. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Their tattered clothes steamed from the heat of the river, but they kept going until they crumpled to their knees at the banks of the Phlegethon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was a dark, ruddy dawn, and through a small square hole of a window, where the tattered paper fluttered, a glimpse of bronze sky gleamed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When I opened my eyes, Mother and Shawn were facing each other, Mother wearing only a tattered bathrobe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There were no sticks of incense now before this pair, nor had there been for many moons, and their paper clothes were tattered and showed their clay bodies through the rents. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z These two, a man and a woman, wear the tattered, thrown-together clothes of actual rebels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Still, he rose every morning and set off on his mission, often dressed in the same tattered and soiled clothes he had worn the day before. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It was more like a thick, tattered cobweb. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When she saw the tattered books we brought home from school, she rose up like the Mommy of old. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like a forgotten hermitage — the cave hidden beneath the growth, the strange fertility goddess statue of Our Ladybird with her tattered Miss Miss sash in place. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Yes. Yes. A cave...her mother...valley full of winds and rainbows...tattered flags on the shrine...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We could not expect Santa to give us anything if we only put our tattered, abandoned toys in the giveaway box. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They had apparently gone shopping at the Barrachina souvenir shop, where they’d replaced their dirty tattered shirts with loud tropical numbers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He took out a book, very old and tattered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked through my purse and found the tattered black feather. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some wore Greek armor, some British redcoat uniforms, some camouflage with tattered American flags on the shoulders. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Old Tallow’s legs stuck out like poles, tattered makazins flapped on her wagging feet as she drew impatiently upon her pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Will lifted up his tattered tote bag and walked slowly across the road toward them, moving very carefully in case it all disappeared. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The riverbed wound its way through high-standing firs and tattered alders, but after a little time the embankment fell away and a sparse forest became their only cover. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The captain found a tattered old map and jabbed at it with his pipe, saying, “This valley here, we now. You take, go on.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a tattered old volume containing all the plays and sonnets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And in a panic, she began to run after the tattered figure. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He wrapped himself again in his old tattered cloak, and led the way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Ugwu glanced at his oversize shirt, tattered shorts, boots, and beret. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So I packed a small dull knife, half a ball of string, and Ben’s book into a tattered canvas sack. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Disappointed, Joseph slowly climbed the stairs, ducking beneath the tattered laundry that hung across the landing, as if it had been put out to dry a century ago and forgotten. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Leafing past the paintings, I would admire the photographs of the artists seated in their garrets, dressed in tattered smocks and frowning in the direction of their beefy nude models. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Harrison came inside and placed his tattered bag down and began to laugh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Masses of Lithuanians with tattered suitcases and bulging bags poured out into the valley, dirty and gray with soiled clothing, as if they had lived in a gutter for years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In his waiting room I encountered the same tattered Highlights magazine every visit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Emerging from one of them, the jittery holographic scene of an old man in a turban speaks to a young boy with tattered clothing. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He just gingerly walks across my tattered blanket until his one good eye is looking back and forth between mine. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And there were yards of tattered paper chains. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Frank Volkheimer emerges from the shadows, dragging a tattered and skeletal man in mismatched shoes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He had changed his tattered clothes and was again dressed in his customary suit of black. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Jennifer had to do the dirty work, weighing me in my tattered yellow robe to make sure I stayed fat. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z His long stick had a crude bronze bell hanging from it, and he wore a tattered bag over one shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He cannot maintain his balance and keep up, so he aims his tattered tennis shoes at the railroad ties. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The moon hung in the sky in front of their window, with a cloud drifting past it like a tattered dress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Under the crushed hood lay the tattered, glistening remains of a giant silk cocoon—the trap that Annabeth had tricked Arachne into weaving. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A piece of tattered paper from the window blew into the room, floating for a moment between Pinmei and the others. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Any light that came into the classrooms was from the windows, and on a day of gray tattered clouds, that wasn’t much. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z They are worn and torn; he is too tattered to be in this neighborhood. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I was handed some clothes, but don’t ask what: a pair of wool slacks over my pajamas, a red sweater and a black skirt, white understockings and tattered kneesocks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Out of the grave site, skeletal warriors erupted - spartoi in the tattered remains of British redcoat uniforms. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When they went to court, the suffragists hung their dirty tattered banners on the wall of the courtroom. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The American boys were wearing mismatched track shorts and tattered old sweatshirts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There he started to pull on his tattered shorts, to be ready for anything. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the hut, Chou folds our spare set of black pajama shirts and pants, now faded and tattered, and puts them in Kim’s backpack. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘What shall we wear?’ said Sam; for all he could see was the old and tattered clothes that they had journeyed in, lying folded on the ground beside their beds. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Even so, something about this tattered document was exciting. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A few crickets down in the cellar begin their song: a rhythmic kree-kree, evening in August, and Marie-Laure hikes her tattered stockings and goes into the kitchen and tears another hunk from Madame Ruelle’s loaf. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was also an enormous, claw-footed desk, and, sitting on a shelf behind it, a shabby, tattered wizard’s hat —- the Sorting Hat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She wore a tattered dress of black silk, and her face was twisted and ravenous, like a demonic grandmother in the mood to kill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Their tattered uniforms were black with soot from the villages they’d burned in retreat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z North they flew, beyond the river, Drogon gliding on tom and tattered wings through clouds that whipped by like the banners of some ghostly army. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Here,” I said, extending a tattered piece of clothing bunched in my hand. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She dressed in tattered clothes that left her arms and legs bare, was shorter than me by almost a foot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Still clad only in her underwear, she hurriedly draped a tattered black shawl, which had been lying on a tin chair nearby, over her shoulders, but the shawl didn’t cover much. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Next came the living room with its tattered, overstuffed green velvet chair and matching couch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The northmen followed hard behind the van, their tattered banners streaming in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then she clapped an old tunic, a foul cloak, upon him, tattered, filthy, stained by greasy smoke, and over that a mangy big buck skin. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When I reached the two potholed courts with tattered nets and broken fences, I found assembled about them the largest crowd of black people I had ever seen about a tennis court. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry bent swiftly over the tattered book Slughorn had lent him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I grunted disapproval and reached under the rag pillow for my tattered khaki pants and shorts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He held the scourging tail in one claw, while gripped in the other was his war standard, topped by the ferret skull with the addition of the tattered tapestry square depicting Martin the Warrior. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Her cheeks dripped blood, making red polka dots on her tattered dress. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was exercise, there was sewing, there was supper, there was playtime in the lounge: a big shabby room with board games and a few tattered books and a table-tennis table. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I tore off my ball gown and donned my tattered servant’s wear, rubbing the sooty skirt across my face. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The following is an edited version of a longer phone conversation: Q: Your fiction has the same tattered, lived-in feel of your movies. Lit Fest: Sayles stays rooted in change 2011-06-01T21:26:00Z The original Kailash Parbat is not much more than a tattered counter separating steaming snacks from a swarm of hungry locals. Indian Chains in New York, Worthy of Their Flagships 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z For a generation of backpackers now gone gray, the tattered paperback accounts of his treks through China, Africa and South America were a prod to adventure, bibles of inspiration under many a mosquito net. Would the Pandemic Stop Paul Theroux From Traveling? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z They showed up with their shaved heads, tattered boots, shouting slogans about white power and superiority. My college's response to a Nazi march taught me about the "true America" 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Two towns over, in Guilford, is a roadside expanse that is partly covered by a tattered red-and-white striped tarp: the Place. Overnighter: On Connecticut’s Quiet Coast 2012-07-19T19:52:28Z The room’s original shelving now displays Masonic costumes — wigs, robes, hats and fake beards — along with old photographs, membership ledgers and tattered publications. L.A.'s Marciano art museum will debut May 25. But first: A sneak peek 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The transformation of a tattered outcast with nothing and no one into a glittering princess with a kingdom at her feet. Cinderella gets to go to the ball — in Seattle Opera production 2013-01-03T20:22:20Z Dressed in slightly tattered but neat clothing, Mr. Lovett portrays an unnamed fellow recounting his past in another country and his present in a strange new one. Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z On his wrist he wore a tattered aqua bracelet embroidered with the word “Coachella.” A British Power Broker Sets His Sights on Washington 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z When has the Mountain Goats, famous for its tattered, unhinged anti-folk sound ever used pitch correction? Growing up is hard to do: “Goth” is the Mountain Goats’ new album 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Freddy lords over all these productions, “the demonic deus ex machina of my tattered time and place.” Review | James Ellroy’s new novel is an unabashedly retro tale of Hollywood’s sordid side 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Instead of garish new signs, though, Mr. Andersen reserves his camera and intermittently audible dry wit for weather-beaten, tattered billboard ads in which the original images are absent or hardly recognizable. Critic?s Notebook: Now Showing, the Edge: A Festival?s Calling Card 2010-09-30T21:43:00Z All Jeremiah knows of the West are the romantic myths that he has learned from tattered dime novels, some of which feature fictionalized tales right out of Lefty’s past. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The dress arrived at the Brighton studio of specialist textile conservator Zenzie Tinker with a box of tattered pieces. Ellen Terry's beetlewing gown back in limelight after ?110,000 restoration 2011-03-11T18:32:01Z The “tattered dress” allows her to dilate on how the slave system’s reach extended to state laws codifying the kinds of material that enslaved people were permitted to wear. In One Modest Cotton Sack, a Remarkable Story of Slavery, Suffering, Love and Survival 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The emaciated bodies, tattered robes and, above all, the wonderfully delicate and melancholy gestures and poses of the figures express a strange and captivating mood of self-negation. Why Rodin's sculpture is Britain's best work of public art | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-23T10:35:00Z Not until you fully believe in the story and in these beleaguered but spirited misfits does he slide a convincing bit of magic from his play’s tattered sleeve. McPherson keeps the faith in Irish drama ‘Night Alive’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The play was written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, two Englishmen who traveled to the Calais Jungle, a tattered French migrant camp, to help its residents. A Play About Refugee Camps Is Coming. With Refugees in the Cast. 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The floor below is covered in a tattered piece of floral linoleum, its pattern evoking a field indoors. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The backstage shenanigans of theater folks, who find refuge in fantasy, no matter how tattered and clichéd, had me chuckling at a steady clip. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Doyle Melton often appears at the top of lists of “Mommy Bloggers,” a term that stashes hordes of women under the same tattered pink umbrella. Her marriage was the jewel in her blog universe. Then she found out her husband was cheating. 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Resting on the beach, enjoying the waterfall alone, I saw a fisherman, small in the distance, mending the tattered edge of a shrimp net, and understood what Thomsen meant. Hidden Gems on Ecuador’s Emerald Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z During last period in high school, I’d write the names that people called me in the lower corner of a tattered journal. “Punk,” “bitch,” “dumbass,” “slut”: bullying almost killed me, but leaving school saved my life 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z One of the first suspects who was detained in connection to the bombing was an unnamed Saudi man whom police said was seen wearing tattered clothes and exhibited questionable behavior. "American Manhunt" The 6 most shocking revelations from Netflix's Boston Marathon bombing doc 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z I suddenly felt grateful for my old, tattered sneakers. In this Beyoncé-inspired fitness class, it doesn’t matter if your moves aren’t flawless 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Staggered in this way, they resemble fragments of faded cloth, the tattered remnants of a crumbling collective memory. Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z One weekend he loads family and their sloshing solo cups into a tattered canoe, hitches it to his truck and rips through the snowy fields. She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Audience members huddled outside the front door to watch his delightfully disheveled “Dancing With My Painting and Lion,” which found him staggering through a thin layer of sand in tattered pink satin shoes. Eiko, Koma and Soloists Perform in Sacred Space 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Hendrix’s tattered British work permit and handwritten “Stepping Stone” lyrics are on view, alongside his scribbled directions for a girlfriend meeting him at the Isle of Wight Festival, two weeks before his death. Antiques: Jimi Hendrix?s Death Is Recalled at Museums 2010-08-19T21:44:00Z It shows tattered rafters looming over twisted heaps of debris, with a hint of smoke rising from the ruins. Landscapes redefined in 2 new Seattle gallery shows 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The physically tattered and scorched stretches of old film and Frisell’s beautiful music contribute to the same effect. An artful, disquieting look at ‘The Great Flood’ 2014-03-20T21:28:14Z “I don’t want to disturb you, but I’ve just got to read you this poem,” she said, holding up a tattered little book. The bond between adult children and their grandparents is an under-told love story 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Since most worshipers come in the afternoon, though, I had it to myself, snapping photos of the tattered red Chinese lanterns and colorful paintings on the walls. Next Stop: A Pocket of the Past in Battambang, Cambodia 2011-12-15T21:22:50Z “Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone” and “Heart of Steel,” are parched roots songs that just barely hang flesh on a tattered skeleton, and those are the most cutting songs here. New Music: ‘Corazón,’ Santana’s New Mix of Latin Pop and Rock 2014-05-05T21:07:04Z The creature slips down a manhole and finds, in the bowels of Tokyo, a tattered imperial flag, grenades from the Sino-Japanese War, and a sign supporting the imperial forces of Nanking. Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The shelves at Myopic Books in Chicago's Wicker Park are packed with little, tattered paperback gems that have one-word titles like "Corn" or "Broccoli." Like creamed spinach? Then you'll love this 5-ingredient spinach pasta 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Now they survive only as tattered fragments and in a few degraded woodcut editions that escaped the censor's hand. Are these Shakespeare's dirty pictures? 2010-12-10T13:46:00Z For the 1930s, Mr. Mac glides onstage in a tattered black dress that looks like a Bob Mackie as repurposed by Martin Margiela. Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z "This will help your pain," long-haired salesman Rob Folse told an older woman with a cane and a few tattered bank notes. Pot shops buzz, crime eases as Colorado law marks 6 months 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Does this tattered mother/daughter relationship mean that all of your sister’s family members must follow suit and reject her daughter? Perspective | Ask Amy: Post-divorce disclosure brings about dilemma 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z You might find a few sprigs of tattered roses, calendulas, Johnny-jump-ups or Salvia horminum, but mostly you’ll rely on evergreen branches and bright but inedible berries from holly, winterberry and such. Forget flowers this year. Try decorating your holiday table with fruit. 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z But with the event scheduled to take place just nine days after the attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City was a tattered nerve more in need of consolation than celebration. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z This male looked exhausted; he had spent so much time seeking her attention that his wings had become tattered and faded. Modern Love: Bitten in the Virtual Zoo ? Modern Love 2011-10-13T21:10:45Z Haiti's recovery from the devastating earthquake in January requires more than rebuilding structures, but also repairing tattered paintings and cultural objects still buried in the rubble, the island nation's first lady Elisabeth Preval said Thursday. Smithsonian leads recovery of Haiti's art, culture 2010-06-17T19:39:00Z She loves his body, nurtures his tattered psyche, tends to her painting, resists his slights. Review: Lee Krasner Gets the Upper Hand in ‘Pollock’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z He tattered and splattered his clothes, festooned them with horns and feathers, made them as torturous and romantic as a Byron poem. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z Head to up-and-coming Loiza Street to sample a blend from selected local farms at Café con Cé, a tiny cafe with interiors featuring deliberately tattered walls and Scandinavian furniture. 36 Hours in San Juan 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It was as if she had busted a hole through the sound and was now blasting air through it, the tattered canvas flapping and shivering in the wind. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The couple take a modern, conscientious approach to sourcing their materials, scouring local markets for tattered, broken furniture that they then restore or repurpose to create cool, imaginative pieces with a back story. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z In place of the clipped moustache that Wilfred Owen modelled in countless tattered school anthologies, PJ Harvey wears a headdress of black plumes. PJ Harvey ? review 2011-03-06T00:09:25Z Mushrooms appeared in vibrant colors on tattered oversize knits, growing freaky tendrils via single strands of flowing mohair. Mushrooms and Speed at Alexander McQueen 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z This is a role, after all, that he’s been honing for several years, in the grandly tattered tradition of the performance-art monologue. Dance Review: Jack Ferver’s ‘Mon Ma Mes,’ at Le Skyroom 2012-10-10T21:10:44Z In tattered tails, he sets about preparing a meal, pulling from the boat and his pockets a fish and other provisions, including a few apples, naturally, as we are in a grim new Eden. Review: ‘The Last Two People on Earth’ Offers Soft-Shoe Après Déluge 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z One of her favorite gifts ever was a tattered copy of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" that a friend found for $2 at a thrift shop. Resale makes gains during holiday season 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Years later he recalled, “It’s not hard to win when you are a boy soprano singing a sentimental song in tattered clothes with a half-starved dog.” Max Bygraves, Jovial British Entertainer, Is Dead at 89 2012-09-08T22:15:06Z The puppet stands 20 inches tall, hand-painted and carved out of wood, its uniform tattered and torn. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z One young woman standing in line next to me, under a tattered umbrella, even wondered aloud, “Is this worth it?” Soggy start and a little Panic! at Bumbershoot | Festival review 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z The former resembles a ceremonial robe, while the latter evokes a sweeping view of a village under a nighttime sky — a universe conjured from tattered scraps and unstudied gestures. Review | In the galleries: Six artists go deep into the weeds 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z What he saw as a tattered "childish things" to be thrown away was a repository of memories which, as an adult, she can never recapture. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Gaunt, scowling, covered in scars and sporting fingerless gloves, a tattered hoodie and biker boots, this “I” is an avenging brawler, sort of “Blade” in a blender, with “Underworld” and “Highlander” elements tossed in. ‘I, Frankenstein’: all chatter and violence, no heart or brains 2014-01-24T18:27:35Z Past my husband, who grabbed for me, ripping my tattered sweatshirt down my shoulder as I sprinted out the door, beyond his reach and the allure of my bathroom window. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z On one occasion, he took every book by Gunn and displayed them on a massage table for me to see, and, while I was admiring each tattered volume, he gave me one. Swimming with Oliver Sacks 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Khan’s wilis are haggard; with their hair hanging stringy and long and their tattered dresses the color of dried earth, they embrace the image of storybook witches. Review: Witching Up ‘Giselle.’ (The Horror, oh the Horror.) 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Understated and tattered, they were surprisingly elegant, communicating a lot with only a few gestures. Anarchy in the Met 2013-04-25T11:55:06Z My incarcerated friends love when I write about our street days; they print them out and tack them to the tattered walls of their cells. Why I won't stop writing about "trauma" to focus on joy 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Many of them had unkempt hair and were dressed in tattered, dirty clothes. Beaten, raped and forced to work: why I'm exposing the scandal of Nigeria’s house girls 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Printed chiffon, uneven hemlines and tattered stitching combined to create a peek-a-boo effect, leaving the rest to the imagination. Milan runway not all black and white 2012-09-21T20:26:11Z So is a tattered telegram sent by Taro from Spain to Capa in Paris, requesting that he bring new photographic equipment, but also coffee and chocolate. Art Review: Images of War, Finally Unpacked 2010-09-23T22:45:00Z Growing up in my home of indifferent cooks, I didn't stir pots at the elbow of a doting grandmother or wait for tattered recipe cards to be passed down from my mother. Your secret weapon to becoming a better cook costs nothing 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z When I was 34, I came across that tattered journal in a box beneath a stack of university essays. The girl in the cave: how a search for my former hermit's cell led to the old me 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Down below on a fence, a tattered banner hung limp. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The more abused and tattered the pair — the “light bleach repair wash,” say — the more expensive, just like Balmain. 2010-02-04T01:59:00Z Some might recoil at the apparent decrepitude of the space, but in Derian's eyes - and ours - he was preserving its tattered poetry, allowing the ghosts of history a place at his often crowded dinner table. | Editor's Letter 2012-10-05T20:30:13Z Raury wore a tattered burgundy Tucker Tigers T-shirt and embraced the loner rebel role to the hilt. On Raury’s Debut Album, Elegant Pop With an Epic Scope 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z The actor bought Columbo's trademark raincoat himself, only for it to be replaced after it became too tattered through its near constant use in the series. Columbo's Peter Falk dies at 83 2011-06-24T21:14:56Z Traveling first class with the Paleys to azure beaches, lunching with Babe and her fellow socialite “swans,” he felt sheltered from the “foul smells and tattered fabric” of real life. ‘The Swans of Fifth Avenue’ review: Would you trust Truman Capote? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z That same dandified poverty clings to the faces and tattered garb of Savoyard peasants whose desperation he drew. Watteau at the Royal Academy: the theatre of life 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z We meet Jessa-Lynn, shattered and up late, anesthetized on cheap beer, hands moving on autopilot as she restores the dignity to tattered pieces of roadkill. ‘Mostly Dead Things,’ a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Van Genk called traditional folk art “idiotic doilies,” although one can imagine him identifying with the outrage in Fasanella’s imagery, and his work further shreds the tattered boundary between insider and outsider art. ‘Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic’ and ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Now, they log on to Zoom from their bedrooms, surrounded by unfinished homework assignments and tattered stuffed animals, waiting to be assigned calls, texts and emails by the trained therapists who oversee the program. The loneliness of an interrupted adolescence 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Our attention is sold to advertisers, along with our data, and handed back to us tattered and piecemeal. Finding It Hard to Focus? Maybe It’s Not Your Fault 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The train tracks underfoot and the tattered fabric fluttering in the breeze, you must grudgingly admit, only add to the charm. Sarah Larson: A Charming Rooftop Garden, at Gallow Green 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z When the prints became too tattered, they were often junked, in pieces. Critic?s Notebook: ?To Save and Project,? MoMA?S Film Preservation Festival 2011-10-13T22:30:49Z I read it — and the rest of the stories — so often the book became tattered. At age 9, he saw his first book. And then a new chapter of his life began. 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The slaves stand around the Louisiana plantation house wearing tattered calico and head scarves. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z I was confused by her choices as a broken down, tattered cat. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z “It’s very tattered because I added my thoughts on every page,” she said. Shark scientists share passion for the fish with a scary reputation 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Your original copies of the Harry Potter books may be tattered and underlined, pages earmarked to your favorite parts, the spines cracked from so much use. Here are the Most Popular "Harry Potter" Book Quotes 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Todd answered by placing the crusty needle on side one, track one, and cranking it: “I Will Follow” screamed from the tattered speakers like an air-raid siren. Saved by Christian rock 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z I found a tattered hardcover in the newspaper’s office and finished it in a day or two. The Virgin Islands, Rewritten 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Chief among the glass-encased art paraphernalia will surely be a tattered, stained bunny costume or two. Dance Review: A Duet, Delicately Spun And Formally Elegant 2011-01-27T23:10:29Z They ducked under the carousel’s turnstile to peer around its striped canvas cover, wind tattered and hanging to the ground in places, and walked the edge of a murky wave pool. Can This Amusement Park Be Saved? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Patches of earth made bare by the trampling of 29m visitors a year are so common that the tattered Mall is fast becoming a symbol of American decline. America’s front yard 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The somewhat tattered paperback arrived in brown paper wrapping, a little worse for wear but exactly as I remembered it. Perspective | It’s because of my dad that I love to read. I thought I’d found the best way to thank him. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Riffling through the space around them, the dancers, in Monstah Black’s artfully tattered costumes, often seem disoriented, tugged in conflicting directions. Review: Marjani Forté’s Latest Work, on Urban Plagues 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z A disconsolate troupe of women in tattered brown dresses danced a forlorn number as Lidia watched from the sidelines. Music Review: Monteverdi’s ‘Ballo Delle Ingrate,’ With a Different Spin 2012-06-04T22:24:09Z While battling drugs and depression at home, Cobain was a tattered rag doll onstage, hurling himself into drum sets, flailing off speaker stacks and writhing in waves of guitar feedback as if possessed. Nirvana Concerts Could Be Beautiful Wrecks 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z But there were holes in his cousin’s story, small but consequential, and they rendered his defense a tattered thing. ‘Ranger Games’ Investigates a Crime and a Soldier’s Mind 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the dead city, in its gorgeous squalor, lives: “the black churning Thames dense with smoking barges . . . a rabbit-warren of slums where tattered grey washing hung limply from lines across the street.” Review | Niall Leonard is E.L. James’s husband, but his new novel shows he’s more than a plus-one 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z When he first noticed the piece for sale, he remembered seeing Davis’s tattered original watercolor for a cougar scene at a Haviland museum in Limoges. Presidential Fine China, With Patterns Reflecting America 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z This includes the tattered old card that contained the handwritten recipe for these doughnuts. How to make donuts from scratch (like you know what you're doing) 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Or the photo of a tattered rural teen who cares for a half-dozen younger siblings while her mother works overnight. People give for the holidays until it hurts — but then comes January 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It was tattered and taped and decades old. Modern Love: Appreciating a Difficult Mother 2010-03-12T18:40:00Z Instead, after my sister died, I spent years in the shroud of her white tattered scarf from Nepal; I wore her wedding rings and her favorite dresses. Losing my twin 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Sandy LeBrun-Evans took her camera inside a tattered room for a double exposure that combines the ghostliness of Ham’s style with the poignancy of Hyde’s. Review | In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z I ripped off my already tattered rubber gloves to get a better grip and started over, willing myself to be calm. How to stop the bleeding 2012-05-30T00:00:00Z The United States last month sharpened its travel warning to Haiti, citing kidnappings, crime, cholera and a tattered infrastructure. Branford Marsalis headlines jazz festival in Haiti 2013-01-18T22:56:14Z And “Been Away Too Long” matches melody to mayhem, with Cornell’s voice oscillating between extremes of tattered roars and banshee wails, miraculously locating a smooth croon in the middle territory. With King Animal, Soundgarden Reigns Again 2012-11-12T19:50:39Z You can see some of these misbegotten objects in two vitrines, along with stacks of tattered prints. 2010-02-11T23:58:00Z Although the paperwork is tattered here and there, the LaLondes took good care of the iridescent sequined shirts and mink stoles, in keeping with Crawford’s legendarily strict standards for closets. Antiques: New Study of Marie Zimmermann, Metalsmith 2011-11-17T22:32:18Z Or maybe instead you're just a bumpkin who buys your clothes in a warehouse and watches TV on your tattered couch. 2009-12-18T01:18:00Z Up further, I reach the “cafe,” a tattered, tented platform precariously perched over a rocky ledge in the heavens. Exploring Petra and other archaeological wonders of Jordan 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z They now stand in a blighted landscape of derelict buildings, closed factories, shops and workshops, cleared sites, shuttered abandoned pubs with tattered "for sale" signs flapping in the wind. One in 10 English churches needs urgent repairs 2010-06-30T14:05:00Z In a navy tank top and tattered jeans, her numerous tattoos exposed, she looked less likely to rule seven kingdoms than to front an art-punk trio. Lena Headey, Cersei in ‘Game of Thrones,’ Has Her Own Power Moves 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z What looked for all the world like apathy and defensiveness turned out to be a profound lack of confidence and a tattered sense of self-worth. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z Next to them was something tattered and fragile: an edition of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” bound in green, grasslike burlap. Book World: A burst pipe, soggy tomes and a lesson in the economy of Nature 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Not to sound nostalgic, but those were the days when the now-torn and tattered word “sophisticated” really meant something. Review: ‘Witchcraft: The Jazz Magic of Cy Coleman’ Summons a Bygone Era 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z In one scene from the original game, Jackie and Jenny sit watching To Kill A Mockingbird on a tattered old sofa. Game on: The Darkness II 2012-02-09T20:59:02Z “We’re sold this dream,” Davis said, “and it’s fallen apart and tattered.” After Reflected Fame, the Artist Karon Davis Steps Into Her Own Light 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Rumpled with a thatch of unruly gray hair, Seamus sat up front, chatting in an Irish lilt and snapping pictures as we passed tattered storefronts, littered lots and street corners populated by young black men. I gave a famous rock star a windshield tour of D.C. — and didn’t know who she was 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “What is wronger, I ask you, than crawling through life with tattered rags on your back?” Theater Review: Teresa Deevy?s ?Temporal Powers? at Mint Theater - Review 2011-08-30T02:01:00Z Club Kids No cover for the swarms of Bushwick denizens, who arrive late in gold lamé shirts, tattered T-shirts and animal prints. Five Underground Dance Clubs 2013-06-12T21:28:58Z At the first rehearsal, musicians filed into the Wielki Theater carrying blue and yellow bags; instrument cases covered in peace signs and hearts; and tattered volumes of Ukrainian poems and hymns. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z “I was all the mad wandering tattered poets rolled into one sleeping under the bridges of the world,” he writes, “I met all the other great writers and poets and great articulators of consciousness.” Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z I pass the top of the dormant lift and walk up another 100 feet to where a wooden post with tattered prayer flags marks the summit. In the mountains of New Mexico, a storied ski resort gets a contemporary makeover 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The ending was orgasmic, yet it crept in under the tattered remnants of the old censorship system. Bonnie and Clyde: The story of a scene 2010-10-17T10:44:00Z He opened a few more drawers, bringing out ads for assorted politicians and a tattered placard announcing that “Robert F. Kennedy Will Pass This Point Monday at 5:00 P.M.” A Collection of Campaign Mementos, Starting With Washington, Goes to Auction 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z This Angel is broken down and dusty, wearing a tattered, disintegrating costume. This Angel in America Takes Wing With Help From 5 Shadows 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Wearing long dresses and fancy hats, sometimes a tattered kimono, Ohno appeared on stage, often curling his body, contorting his face and bending his arms crookedly. Butoh legend, Japanese dancer Ohno dies at 103 2010-06-02T16:21:00Z When he went to college, he’d tack the tattered dust jacket to the bulletin board in his dorm room. The Enduring Wisdom of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Hume, sporting a blooming bosom and a tattered blond wig, digs into this ripe comic role with ferocious gusto. ‘Pericles,’ Lashed by Sorrows, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z And he still favors tattered Vans skateboard shoes and black T-shirts. Up Close: A Founder of Vice Magazine Branches Out 2010-08-16T21:02:00Z Both the grandeur and the grime, the tugging weight of life on the circuit, is seen in each tattered tent, each murky banner. When Production Design Plays a Supporting Role 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z He wrote them in the catalog for Documenta, which he organized in 2002 — whose rigor and worldliness inspired my career and thousands of others, and whose legacy lies tattered just two decades later. The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The freedom to wear something other than drab, tattered, sub-Eileen Fisher linen? Review: Efficient and Gray, 'Rogue One' Gets the Job Done 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But equally, he never had any illusions about growing Soviet influence on the Republic, and could not help noticing how capable Republican security forces looked compared to his own tattered comrades in the militia. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z If you have a tattered, stained old copy of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," now's the best time to pull it out. As the seasons change, try Julia Child's 5 most comforting fall recipes 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z “All we had to do was wear tattered clothes, eat bananas and do big takes,” Ms. DeHaven later told the Toronto Star. Gloria DeHaven, actress in 1940s Hollywood musical comedies, dies at 91 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z By publishing four novels in the past five years, he seems to be working from a fat, tattered file titled “Human Condition: Notes,” and is making up for lost time. Let’s not mince words: Lawrence Osborne’s ‘Beautiful Animals’ is a great book 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z “We’ve seen those stories where three people are left, and Denzel Washington’s wearing tattered clothes,” a spirited Mr. Brooks said recently at his Beverly Hills office. Albert Brooks Laughs His Way Through Dystopia 2011-05-03T12:00:00Z As their reality begins to mirror the stories in a tattered children’s picture bible, the kids run away, searching for peace and stability amid disaster. 11 Books to Watch For in May 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z With its chipped vintage dishware, bookshelves stuffed with tattered novels and vinyl records, and recycled wood tables, Cuc Gach Quan is a breath of fresh air in the city’s sleek facade. 36 Hours in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2014-05-08T17:13:04Z There are feints at exploring what this threshold might mean at a time when notions of truth and reality seem so tattered. ‘Quichotte’ Is Salman Rushdie’s Latest. But the Act Is Getting Old. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z In New York’s Museum of Modern Art is a curious contraption with several wheels, metal containers, axles and pipes and what may be a tattered flag hanging from an improvised flagpole. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Her wildly styled mane and tattered apparel, self-described as Disney grunge, are another matter entirely. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z There’s a tattered house in the same community where Darnell works. Poor black people don’t work?: Lessons of a former dope dealer 2014-04-22T23:00:00Z The moment we first saw her — with that shaved head, tattered hospital gown and affinity for french fries — we wanted to protect Eleven. Don Draper, Eleven, Selina Meyer lead AP roles of the decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The small step that leads to the rear of the store also cloaks a row of tattered paperbacks: “Africa & Africans,” “Man Against Himself,” “The Uncommitted,” “Black Boy.” Critical Shopper: Ale et Ange, a Men’s Store — Critical Shopper 2012-08-08T18:56:53Z Potash recalls Richards spotting the two plates affixed to his tattered denim jacket at a party after a charity gig the guitarist played in New York in 2006. How one Maryland man became a fixture in the Rolling Stones firmament 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The writing’s as smooth as good whiskey, the plot is satisfyingly twisty, and the narration perfectly captures Marlowe’s bone-weary sadness and tattered nobility. New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z A tattered photograph featuring an unremarkable lineup of five high-ranking military officers, all male, is collaged on a piece of plywood about a foot on one side. With pointed, political new work, Llyn Foulkes, 82, shows he's far from finished 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Monet and Turner are like half-remembered ancestors on a tattered genealogical chart. R.H. Quaytman makes paintings as sculptures, mysterious and seductive at their best 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Portman is a friend of the designers, who wears their tattered, bird-inspired lines on the red carpet and is often in the front row at their shows. Black Swan caught in row over costume award nominations 2011-02-04T15:15:03Z The too-earthy show’s design of colored sand below and tattered fabric above creates a smudged, static look that glumly announces ruin and sticks with it. Review | ‘King Lear’ with Rick Foucheux is a family meltdown 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Jimbo holds a tattered umbrella and suddenly, held aloft by the other dancers, she and Mr. Kuribayashi soar through the night. Dance Review: Pilobolus Collaborates With Dan Zanes 2010-07-20T21:27:00Z We see the tattered vestiges of a Choctaw allotment in Hugo, Oklahoma, after the tribe was forcibly expelled along the Trail of Tears. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Yet what with its tattered plot and its often over-heated prose, this is a novel that has a lot against it. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z There's the bit, for instance, about his young son picking his own clothes for a party, then shrugging off his tattered look: They're your friends, dad. Al Madrigal of 'Daily Show' goes solo in special 2013-04-25T19:03:11Z Inside a tattered tent, a weary-looking man pointed to a mound of sticks piled in the corner, and a teenage girl in a purple sweatshirt turned to follow his gesture. If you had to leave home, what would you take? How a new exhibit personalizes the refugee crisis. 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Just ahead of me, a woman in go-go boots and a skintight, leopard-print dress was trying to keep up with an old man in a tattered coat and straw fedora on an asthmatic scooter. Tirana, Breaking Free From Communist Past, Is a City Transformed 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z His ID and credit cards, his money and a pile of tattered Post-It notes. “I’m jumping off the bridge” 2012-08-03T23:30:00Z Moving through the surreal landscape of upside-down chairs and luggage racks, tattered upholstery, grit, loose strands of emergency lights shining impotently in the darkness. Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z His drab shirt and crinkled jeans matched the tattered couch. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Never mind that the woman elevated to Christ Redeemer status by Steinem and Albright has a stained and tattered rap sheet five miles long. “Sexism has nothing to do with it”: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Wiping away tears, I picked up her tattered seat cushions and carried them to the door, handing them to one of the haulers. The Junk Removers Manhandle My Heart 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Viewed another way, in a characteristic trick of this masterly artist, the green plane could be a tattered curtain, with a parti-colored world — unknowable, seductive, beautiful, malignant — visible through its holes. Thomas Nozkowski’s Final Statement 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z To my amazement, day after day after that, if I returned home before dark, the butterfly, which I recognized by one tattered wing, would come out from the garden to greet me. For more than a decade, butterflies have repeatedly landed on me. I think I’m blessed by the red admiral. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Their vulnerability is shaped by history: "Loss, dislocation, disease, addiction, and just feeling like the tattered remnants of a people with a complex history." In Louise Erdirch's 'LaRose,' parents make an impossible bargain 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Their facial expressions are especially scary—many seem to be shouting “No!”—and clenched fists protrude from the tattered clothes. The World’s Creepiest Attractions 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The tour involved long bus rides on bumpy roads hedged with tattered banana and palm trees. An African American mother and daughter journey to their family's... 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Gone with the Wind is probably one of my most skimmed, most tattered and most read books. The Help by Kathryn Stockett- review 2013-04-17T11:00:00Z His voice is tattered and scratchy, not always bothering to trace a melody. Bob Dylan Still Bristles on ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Today, looking at a tattered black-and-white photo sitting atop the grand piano in her living room, the 92-year-old sees herself as a smiling young beauty surrounded by three grinning children. Vietnam matriarch, now 92, spread piano culture 2011-02-27T17:16:04Z Neither was Jim Taylor, 81, who was out collecting tattered flags to be ceremonially retired and burned that evening. Deep in the heart of Big Bend National Park 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Artemis Herber deals in ancient and even tectonic history in her paintings on shaped, tattered cardboard. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Others hung out on tattered sofas, flipping through the works of Henry James. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z And, if neither of those efforts finished off the late Duchess of Windsor's already tattered reputation, she is also due to be the subject of a film directed by – gulp – Madonna. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z At the bustling offices of Evergreens Cemetery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, staff members often pore over hefty reference books with frayed spines and tattered pages. A Brooklyn Cemetery Is a Resting Place Rich in History 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z But its senior members still retain a collective instinct to malign those who challenge its tattered conventional wisdom too loudly, as Teicholz is now discovering. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Speaking of blasts from the pasts, who else hooted when Paul Kinsey returned as a Hare Krishna in a tattered yellow turtleneck? Mad Men Monday: Merry Christmas, Don and Joan 2012-05-21T17:44:06Z Dressed in tattered period attire, they mill around in an artificial pastoral scene, alongside fake trees and grass designed like paper cutouts from a children’s storybook. Review: In ‘Tambo & Bones,’ a Minstrel’s Guide to Making Money 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Pommel horses and protesters Topics: Arab Spring, , , , Yemen Inside a stuffy, ramshackle warehouse on the northern outskirts of Yemen’s capital, a dozen male gymnasts line up at the end of a tattered vaulting runway. Pommel horses and protesters 2012-08-25T12:00:00Z Over the last five years, my love of misguided guides and peripheral poetry pamphlets has bordered on obsession, in fact my tattered collection of "killer crab" novels currently stands taller than my child. Robin Ince's top 10 truly bad books 2010-07-05T13:23:00Z One of the final shots includes a tattered, torn and dirtied American flag; earlier, we’d seen the militants shooting holes in Old Glory, presumably the same one. Review: Michael Bay Ups the Blunt-Trauma Quotient with '13 Hours' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z She enjoyed floppy hats, tattered furs, large eyeglasses. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z I treasure my tattered catalogue, a memento of youth and hope and the international spirit, which has survived with me for more than half a century. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z As he blends into the noontime foot traffic, a homeless man in a tattered coat asks who he is, and then looks at him with wonder. He's your Aaron Burr, sir: 'Hamilton' star Joshua Henry on why kids in the audience bring him to tears 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Some parts of the building are warm and clammy while others are ice cold, and carpets are tattered. Special Report: Travel Asia: In Manila, ‘Livin’ La Vida Imelda!’ 2012-10-12T23:07:41Z It’s a soap opera clothed in tattered hoop skirts and rouge, odd and well-rendered enough to be a justifiable guilty pleasure. 8 brilliant shows you haven’t streamed yet, but will this long weekend 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z All was revealed when Mr. Gurung explained that Miss Havisham, the jilted bride descended into tattered madness in the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations,” was his inspiration. Special Report: Fashion: Addicted to Love 2011-02-13T17:19:03Z They came to California for the tattered shelter of mocking freedom that the Golden State had to offer people like them, poor people willing to work hard. Patter and Patois 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z I must find my tattered copy of To the Lighthouse. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z I do not need to experience the palpable ruination of tattered souls like his ever again. “The pigs were glowing deep gold”: The amazing experience that ended my life as a pig farmer 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z “I always bring books for days. Right now I’m reading ‘The Eagles Have Flown’ as research for Season 4 of ‘Power’; it’s a weathered, tattered book I picked up in a vintage shop. Omari Hardwick, ‘Power’ Player, Never Travels Without a Hat 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z At work in the unmarked, gray suburban building, the rapper born Marshall Mathers held a pen and a tattered Detroit Lions composition book, writing in solitude for no project in particular. Eminem Collaborates on the Album for the Film ‘Southpaw’ 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z And how to read the safety signal that would tell me it was all right to clear it — in this case a piece of tattered green ribbon tied to a railing. John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Wearing a crown of grass and tattered undergarments, he continues to speak the speech of command, but with a quiet, marveling irony that acknowledges how absurd such directives are. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z In his interview he reveals how he still has a tattered postcard of the picture he bought at the time and which he has kept next to his desk for well over half a century. Tracey Emin launches Radio 4's major arts series Cultural Exchange 2013-04-16T18:07:20Z I was unsure as I entered “This Other Eden”; the story opens with images of apples, the raging white of winter and tattered flags, which all felt grossly American. In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The movie’s first shot begins underwater, beneath a tattered French flag. Les Misérables: The YouTube Version 2012-12-11T13:00:47Z Frankie desperately needed to flee London and salvage her tattered reputation. Review | An intense bond between two women fuels the suspense in ‘Palace of the Drowned’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z In the novel, she gives herself a tattered, dissolute glamour — she’s wearing a rakish rose-brown man’s fedora and one of her mother’s threadbare silk dresses. Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z A city of glorious but tattered beauty, known for its vibrancy and, yes, a frisson of menace, Naples is now humming with visitors. 36 Hours in Naples, Italy 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Even so, it’s hard to miss the evidence of lives lived in the cobblestones and tattered storefronts. Critic’s Notebook: Charles Marville’s Pictures Show What Was Destroyed 2014-03-09T21:55:35Z This ageless ghost of a woman with long, scraggly gray hair, dressed in a tattered, once-elegant gown, shuffling — noisily, rhythmically — back and forth across a bare floor in the growing dark. Theater Review: ‘Sounding Beckett,’ at the Classic Stage Company 2012-09-19T21:30:20Z As the performance begins, the air is thick with haze, and the tattered, soot-smeared clowns onstage are very sorry. ‘Burning Bluebeard' Becomes a Holiday Tradition in Chicago 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Mark Bradford built “Mithra,” a huge ark made of plywood panels covered by tattered posters. In the Lower Ninth Ward, an Artist Renews His Purpose 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The scoreboard for the East Dillon Lions is silent and hopelessly tattered, a totem of neglect that connotes defeat no matter what numbers go up on it. On ?Friday Night Lights? the Other Side of the Tracks 2010-04-24T20:10:00Z In the back of a Ridgeley classroom, a table was stacked with books to encourage reading, many tattered discards from the white schools. The enlightening legacy of the Rosenwald schools 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z On the contrary, their tattered humanity is what most interested Capa. Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z There was a display of photographs, including many grotesque images showing emaciated prisoners in tattered stripes, mounds of discarded clothing, slave crews working on pointless exercises. Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z His voice sounds tattered and nervous, with a grainy quaver, as if he’s looking over his shoulder half the time. Early James Is a Rootsy Throwback in an Uncertain Present 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Or tattered cloth, as the case may be. Shredding as a Signpost of Fashion?s Future? 2010-08-11T23:44:00Z Wounded young men in tattered clothing occupy about a dozen beds. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Pictures of nieces and nephews, a blue ribbon she'd won, tattered overseas postcards from dear friends of long ago. The Thanksgiving this vegetarian finally gave in and cooked a turkey 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z If I were still teaching, I’d leave my tattered copy by the sputtering Xerox machine. ‘The Teacher Wars,’ Dana Goldstein’s History of Education 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Cousins in their mid-20s cooled the rice with tattered paper fans that belonged to their grandmother. In Japanese New Year Dishes, a Family Connects With Its Past 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z That contrast — practicality against dreams — is somehow just right for the eclectic piece of geography where this show is being staged, with the tattered Astro-View towers nearby and the surrounding landscape a bustling park. World’s Fair Play Festival at the Queens Theater 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Natalia also recounts his multilayered tale: his village childhood in World War II; his devotion to a tattered copy of "The Jungle Book"; his journey to respected physician in "the City." 'The Tiger's Wife': tales of kindness, brutality, superstition and faith in a Yugoslavian homeland 2011-03-10T01:56:36Z Munitions aside, that tattered spirit is best found in the town’s bars, with their criminally cheap happy hours and men and women eager to get lost in them. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z Even when Mr. Giordani is effective — in his natural phrasing and his indefatigable high register — it is despite large swaths of his voice that sound tattered. Stephen Costello and Tamara Wilson Show Opposing Approaches 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z It's normally one that's been passed down from aunts and grandmothers, scribbled on the back of a postcard or an old tattered napkin. America's essential connection to cornbread 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Human likenesses made of tattered and stuffed clothes were burned on the bonfires. Kit Harington Isn’t Trying to Compete With ‘Game of Thrones’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z “Sailing to Byzantium” is a good poem for this time: “An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick.” Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z I got the tattered Penguin out and realised I'd got Blake wrong. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z Ulysses, past his hero’s days, is a world-weary bearded figure with a tattered blanket for a robe. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Under Kira Simring’s sure-handed direction, “Hard Times” bursts with vitality: the Cell, an intimate space, becomes the saloon, burlap draped along the walls, a tattered flag hanging. Theater Review: ‘Hard Times: An American Musical’ at the Cell Theater 2012-09-21T00:54:23Z The first image in “BlacKkKlansman” is a famous, stirring shot from “Gone With the Wind,” of wounded Confederate soldiers around the Atlanta railroad station under a tattered battle flag. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The relatives of Gulanar the Mermaid are welcomed into what looks like a French palace and the genie summoned up by Aladdin is merely a very large man in a tattered robe. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z Their garments — often cunningly tattered or fabulously deconstructed — weren’t always wearable, but were impossible to disregard. Review: ‘McQueen’ Reveals a Dazzling and Divisive Talent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z As the evening cooled, she put on a tattered black sweater. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Like the tattered American flags once draped from windows or flying from car antennas, memories of the horror that settled on New York after 9/11 have faded. Women Olympians: They’re hot! 2012-06-19T18:40:00Z Determined not to be caught behind enemy lines, she impulsively buys a grand but tattered apartment in Venice. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Jon’s sister Abigail, who is wearing a tattered American flag around her waist and dragging it on the ground, holds four signs at once, including one that says, Destruction is imminent. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z The most compelling is a color photocopy of a tattered diagram showing the relative color wavelengths in a spectrum. Upended assumptions in "Augment This" at Cherry and Martin Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z I was struck by the tattered layers of decorative wallpaper in Ms. Olson’s childhood bedroom; a faded pattern resembling snowflakes papered over delicate white flowers against a powder blue background. A Stroll Through Wyeth?s Giverny 2011-08-11T18:32:30Z There’s some further tattered plot in “Wolf in White Van.” ‘Wolf in White Van,’ by John Darnielle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Those struggles can be seen in water-stained walls, amid the brick piles of a bulldozed neighborhood or on the tattered carnival tents of “The Humans,” “West Side Story” and “Nightmare Alley.” When Production Design Plays a Supporting Role 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Six months later, the Americans burned the town surrounding the fort and retreated back across the river into American territory, taking a tattered Union Jack with them. Near Niagara Falls, U.S. and Canadian forts from the War of 1812 still face off 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z President Karimov is regarded as one of the most repressive rulers in the region, with a tattered human-rights record, and the singer drew international condemnation for agreeing to perform. ArtsBeat: Sting Cancels Concert in Kazakhstan After Crackdown on Strikers 2011-07-05T17:34:34Z Now here we are again with "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," and it's ... a lot like the first one, just longer and more stuffed full of locations and bullets and smartly tattered costumes. 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' plays a lot like the original 2011-12-15T03:14:27Z The film underlines the idea that it’s never too late to tell the truth or repair tattered bonds. ‘Family Squares’ Review: These People Are Way Off the Grid 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “I want to give myself the best opportunity to win,” he said, unguarded and resting a leg on his tattered wooden desk. Ruston Kelly Survived Addiction and Heartbreak. It’s in His ‘Dirt Emo.’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The map Ronald and Marielle provide us — a full-color glossy with numbered images corresponding to 56 island beaches — becomes a tattered testament to our quest to unravel the mysteries of the “White Island.” Ibiza may be a party island, but we made it a family vacation spot 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z He said he hopes the documentary, which will be called “Inside the FBI: New York,” helps bolster the bureau’s tattered image. “Law and Order” meets FBI: James Comey grants access to New York bureau for documentary series 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Sewell emerged wearing a pink housecoat and tattered leather sneakers, and holding a tattered stuffed panda. The Met Embraces Neglected Southern Artists 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z "It's not so many years ago that I would acquire something and it would be so tattered, I would say, 'Isn't it a pity it's not in any shape for framing?' " says Marschall. Seattle's Fantagraphics and Rosebud Archives reclaim vintage comics 2010-08-04T21:51:00Z A purse, priced at $950, is fitted with a host of zippers that resemble a jacket; a painting is composed of shards of tattered cloth. Heads Up: Arts Bloom in Inglewood, Calif. 2013-06-26T16:49:44Z |
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