| 单词 | shabby |
| 例句 | “Naw, Dusty bought the whole sad story. He thinks I wanted my job back just because Lice left me broke. And I’ll be honest, the money’s not too shabby.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland approached stiffly and stood in the doorway holding his shabby felt hat in his hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Truth was, I was all too aware of the fact that I only owned two shirts, and after two terms of constant wear they were getting shabby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All the girls look at Link, since he’s kind of the star athlete in town, and I’m not too shabby myself. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It’s not too shabby, but I can usually find things to fix. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Walt returns from the stream to find her sitting on the mattress where Chris died, taking in the vehicle’s shabby interior. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Their granary was never more than half full and they wore very shabby clothes. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Sunlight measured itself out in regular oblongs on the shabby, but soft red carpets, and a whiff of fresh-cut grass sweetened the air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Riding in the shabby Jim Crow car became part of Marian and Billy’s travel routine. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Their thick, dark, shabby clothes got all full of prickly things, and since they were much too hot anyhow, they took most of them off. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My shabby hat, too broad about the brim, and my low-heeled shoes, fastened with a single strap. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I realized that though I was well dressed for a Negro, my appearance looked shabby for a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z You could recognize a shabby leather jacket, a hairy neck, a black T-shirt or sweatshirt, and his fingers with a roll-up cigarette in them. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a small collection of books that came with me to Forks, the shabbiest volume being a compilation of the works of Jane Austen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The buildings were joined to one another in faded slumping rows, and on shabby corners, people were hunched in puffy jackets, black and bleak people waiting for buses, the air around them hazed in gloom. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He lived in a shabby, rundown house on the edge of Fry, with old tires, a rusty wheelbarrow, a condemned birdhouse, an airplane toilet, and other trash in the yard. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z If I was a ghost, I wouldn’t haunt these shabby little houses. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The clerk would say, “Mr. Crawley has just gone out, Mrs. de Winter,” and I could see Frank, hatless, climbing into his small, shabby Morris, driving off in search of Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She said, “Even something precious can get shabby in the course of things. Considering what they’re up against here, that might not be such a bad attitude for them to take.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the women tried to press coins into Eliza’s hand, but Eliza politely refused and put the money back in the sisters’ shabby purse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The lawn was overgrown, not in that neglected way that makes a place look shabby, but with nice abandon, as if to say, there’s room in this house for everything, even a lot of grass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Best of all, in the OASIS, no one could tell that I was fat, that I had acne, or that I wore the same shabby clothes every week. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Welch was shabby and worn out, but you could tell it had once been a place on its way up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was very much like the main town: shabby little huts, repaired a dozen times, patched with scraps of plastic or corrugated iron, leaning crazily against each other over muddy alleyways. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The sky was broken now into scudding patches that dragged their swift shadows up out of the shabby garden, over the broken fence and across the yard. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Lupin was younger too, and much less shabby, and his hair was thicker and darker. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Who Flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her next day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A shabby street, but with an air heterogeneous and vivid too. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Here were no tenements or raucous shabby stores. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Christmas came one morning and haggled everybody’s nerves like a dull ax—too shabby to cut clean but too heavy to ignore. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A gravel rake lay rusting in the driveway; the lawn was parched and shabby. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Where all had looked so shabby and grey before, the wood now gleamed with rich browns, and with the smooth black-greys of bark like polished leather. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My cloak was threadbare, and even wearing my best clothes I was a short step from shabby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The house was shabby, crowded with three families. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to see shabby or derelict boats with his name on them out on the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Johnny sat modestly on a stool, his arrogant shabby hat in his good hand, and looked about him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And Minli looked down a muddy path that led to a shabby, rickety hut that looked as if the first strong wind would blow it away. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Finally I arrived at a big lounge with shabby furniture and a threadbare rug. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z One of the shabby middle-aged men at the front spoke up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He had a Senate office and an apartment in a shabby building on Capitol Hill, a little one-bedroom that was already cluttered with books and papers, his Hole away from home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I had a shabby, tight-fitting khaki safari suit my parents had bought me two Christmases ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The houses up here were shabbier than the brick houses lower down in the valley. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Here were no gold-plated buildings or great cathedrals, only shabby rows of houses, cheek by jowl. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Professor Lupin looked particularly shabby next to all the other teachers in their best robes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The only people in the waiting room besides Doctor Nolan and me were a pallid man in a shabby maroon bathrobe and his accompanying nurse. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z All in all it has been a great journey and not at all shabby for a bad boy. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He noticed that the houses had started to gain pillars out front, that even the shabbiest, thinnest house now had its white pillars, proclaiming it, in someone’s eyes, a mansion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It was a small and shabby all-night café. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She waited at the stage door after the Saturday matinee and followed him to the shabby brownstone house where he lived untheatrically in a modest furnished room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Court clothes, for all our party. Fine woolens, velvets, silken cloaks. One does not come before a queen looking shabby ... nor empty-handed. The magister has been kind enough to provide us with suitable gifts.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His burlap tunic was shabby but familiar, and faint stubble dusted his jaw. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The shabby walls and worn stones seemed to shimmer as if a translucent silk veil covered them, muting any flaws and transforming the house into a dwelling of luminous light and delicate shadows. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Seconds later, Professor Lupin was clambering out of the fireplace, brushing ash off his shabby robes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The house was dark and shabby, and the greasy shoulders that had left their mark in Mr. Jaggers’s room seemed to have been shuffling up and down the staircase for years. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z All the yarn and thread came from old clothes that had gotten too shabby to be worn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I pass a breadline—a long row of shabby dispirited people leading to the door of a mission. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But no one has any need for my shabby furniture or my shabby shoes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They rode the rest of the way in silence, Spoon driving carefully as the clean, well-kept buildings in the quiet white neighborhoods gave way to shabby houses on streets filled with black children and garbage. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a parlor to my right, lined with bookcases and filled with shabby claw-footed furniture. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The schools are shabbier here; the test scores are lower. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Shorty paid six dollars a week for a room in his cousin’s shabby apartment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We pulled into the yard of one of the shabbier places. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To his great surprise, however, Dumbledore drew his wand from an inside pocket of his suit jacket, pointed it at the shabby wardrobe in the corner, and gave the wand a casual flick. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It was like a kitchen in an old person’s house, with shabby red linoleum and—in keeping with this odd apartment—a door that led onto the roof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My clothing became so shabby that I was ashamed to go to school. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in a crooked cranny near a back corner of the Homestead, Minho pulled out a key and opened up a shabby door leading to a small storage closet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z No one noticed the scrawny man in a shabby coat lurking in the doorway shadows. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It had been at once a masterful and shabby performance.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were clad in shabby skins and boiled leather, with long hair and fierce heards. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I lit one of the lamps and sat in his shabby sprung armchair, contemplating the rows of glinting bottles. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When we arrived at Tallebudgera we scampered off the bus, grabbed our sleeping bags and clothes, and walked across the patchy grass to the shabby huts that were home for the duration. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Here we are!” he said, parking in front of a shabby block. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He entered as though he owned the court, calling a cheery good morning to Mr. Justice, interrupting the mumbled explanation of a shabby bakeress accused of selling mouldy bread. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked little and shabby to her now, but she still loved it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A short and shabby silence fell across the room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They set off again, the class looking at shabby Professor Lupin with increased respect. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It was tough and roomy like the canvas bag, and faded enough to look properly shabby. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She came at last to a confluence of shabby streets which she assumed from the detached quarter of her map was Stockwell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Genie stood a few feet away from Samantha’s shabby old doghouse, scribbling a mess of words in his notebook. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “How long have you been here?” the man asks after silently examining the boy’s shabby appearance for a few moments. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Dressed in shabby pants, with sweat already leaching through the armpits of my white cotton shirt, I felt out of place amid the neighborhood’s neatly manicured lawns and lavish estates. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For a famous place, it was very dark and shabby. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The shabby theatrics of the war reports, the voice that forced morsels of invented hope down people’s throats, did not interest him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Occasionally, we did have a chance to talk as we sat next to each other on the ground of the prison courtyard sewing and patching up shabby old mailbags. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 This is probably my favorite view from our shabby, beautiful little Lake sector. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Aru was used to seeing her dressed like a shabby professor, in a blazer with scuffed elbows and a worn skirt with the hem coming undone. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Take care, lad, or you shall end up like me, stripped of any respectable rank and warming your shabby old hide at the fire of your enemies.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The little shabby shoes stood in a row before the furnace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the Nolans lived in the shabbiest house in Irish Town, the boys were the dressiest in the neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The hollering and the high-mindedness over, all that would be left would be another shabby little affair a la the Birmingham country club set, and a self-constructed private Gehenna with the latest Westinghouse appliances. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In the loose, shabby, but definitely male clothing I had chosen, my height and my contralto voice would get me by. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She was pleased to see me, but I could tell that she observed how shabby I looked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He took from the box a small sword in an old shabby leathern scabbard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then Harry realized that Ron had covered nearly every inch of the shabby wallpaper with posters of the same seven witches and wizards, all wearing bright orange robes, carrying broomsticks, and waving energetically. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z There were only two men besides Master Lockton- Goldbuttons, wearing a shabby waistcoat of black wool, and the third man, who I took to be the mayor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She and the other girls stayed in a rundown house with shabby equipment and patched straw mattresses. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Seven and one heading into the bye week ain’t too shabby. That’s quite a first half to our season. Now we need to sustain it. No letdowns.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The best guest room was shabby and the furniture was cheap, but at least it was clean. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The harp jogged on his back; his shabby cloak was rolled over his shoulder. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The room itself was small and furnished with things that were too big for it, and shabby, but it was clean and comfortable. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Was the place as shabby as the kitchen indicated? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought, If only she had been wearing fine clothes, silk or satin instead of the torn shabby suit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t too shabby, considering I’d only done a few rap pieces before. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At this, he dug into the back pocket of his shabby overalls and pulled out a small brown envelope. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 I was very shabby, with my plastic garbage bag over my shoulder, and everyone was staring. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The ballroom made the Roseland in Boston look small and shabby by comparison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Octavian pointed out Mark Antony’s faults and failings: Look at the shabby way he had treated Octavia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He was thin and undersized and wore a shabby dark suit with a collarless and tieless shirt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The three men went back into the shabby sitting room. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Matt gave him a wallet that had looked good in the catalog and now seemed shabby next to the other presents. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The hallway with its eight doors seemed smaller to Lina than it had when she was a student, and shabbier. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I felt shabby for having saved a pencil through so many sharpenings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Ralph thought of the old hotel with its shabby lobby warmed by a crackling fire. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z An extraordinary assortment of people had already settled into half of the chairs; shabby and smart, old and young. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It was he who would have the hardest time living with the shabby choices he’d made. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Faded loops of coloured paper hung in the windows, and on the shelves were shabby little boxes of Sherbet, old Liquorice Sticks, and very withered, very hard Apples-on-a-stick. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The Virgin looked shabby with Her chipped robe and cheap plastic flowers, but Matt wouldn’t have wanted Her to look any other way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunlight streams through large dirty windows into the shabby prewar apartment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He leaned back on the shabby purple sofa that had come with my apartment and looked up at me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There was also a short taffeta cloak, somewhat shabby, and a simple, flat-crowned hat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The kitchen is a little shabby, with old-fashioned white cabinets full of handprints, unwashed mugs on the counter, and a sink full of dishes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was a place the script called Shinbone Alley, in a shabby section of the city. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was worn at the edges, but not exactly shabby, and still an active sanitorium. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It looked smaller and shabbier by daylight, but it was the same place, with the zinc-topped bar, the espresso machine, and the half-finished plate of risotto, now beginning to smell bad in the warm air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu did not pay close attention to who was there, though, because, as he stared at the shabby white altar cloth, he imagined that he was getting married. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Still, I never got over the shabby waiting room and the long wait I had to endure before seeing him. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was leaning casually against the shabby pine desk, which is all the permanent furniture in that room, flexing his bony hands in front of the electric heater. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Within the world of the play, he had been a shabby, half-drunk clown. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘This wood is lighter than Mirkwood, but it is musty and shabby.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I couldn’t picture it, this godlike creature sitting in my father’s shabby kitchen chair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Craster's sheepskin jerkin and cloak of sewn skins made a shabby contrast, but around one thick wrist was a heavy ring that had the glint of gold. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When I became more proficient, Mam went into the shabby trunk beside her bed and brought out a hardback book of poems, blue with gold trim. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “This dress is fine. Old and shabby as it is.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The tent was poor and shabby, compared with the splendid pavilions of the English knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Around his bent shoulders was draped a shabby, grimy robe, which he fingered nervously. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The visitor was undersized, in a shabby alpaca coat. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I was clean underneath, but my hill-walking trousers were caked with mud and my wet hair was standing on end and I felt shabby as a street urchin. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z They met at the seventh of their appointed meeting places, among the roots of a plane tree in a shabby little square, and exchanged their news. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His daemon was a shabby hare as thin and tough-looking as he was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And when I arrived, I realized how shabby my dreams were, how poor my thoughts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a brooding quality about the neighborhood, a quiet, deep, timeless, shabby peace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He twitched and sighed often in his sleep, as old dogs will, and for once his shabby tail with the bare patch on the last joint was still. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She is walking down Fulton Street in her mauve velour jogging suit, past the shabby May’s department store with mannequins from another era, past shuttered shops and bus-stop benches draped with sleeping bums. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Campbell was the one who had written the monograph about the shabby behavior of American prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The village was a shabby place: a huddle of wooden buildings, with paddocks containing reindeer, and dogs that barked as he approached. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was small arid shabby, containing only a rectangular table and three chairs with blue plastic seats. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z My body was thin, my overcoat shabby, and each gust of wind chilled my blood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The city-made stuff was mostly shabby and worn, repaired again and again, but the handmade things fascinated Tally. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I wished he were less remote; and I anything but the creature that I was in my shabby coat and skirt, my broad-brimmed schoolgirl hat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He did look, at times, both shabby and desperate; in other words, a potential criminal. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Fredericksburg had been undertaken with little probability of success, the papers claimed; nothing could have been expected under the shabby plans—if, indeed, they were plans—other than appalling slaughter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The school itself, on the other hand, was kind of shabby. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Dany felt shabby and barbaric as she rode past them in her lions kin robe with black Dragon on one shoulder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The library was a little old shabby place. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I climb the iron stairs to the first one shabby enough to house working men and slide the door open so violently it bounces closed again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But she felt that to a stranger who didn’t know about it the way she did, it might seem a mean and shabby place. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You could make as many guesses as you wanted, but each one cost ten silver, paid into the purse, which was a shabby affair of old green brocade held closed with a gaudy brooch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A crispness that my mother, in her shabby clothes, could never match. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The coat looked shabby, an imitation of romance. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Even today, my walking isn’t too shabby, but right then ... Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed men and women dressed in shabby tunics, some nursing freshly bandaged wounds from encounters with beasts, some marked by more permanent injuries Eke old scars and missing fingers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was as shabby as ever but looked healthier than he had on the train, as though he had had a few square meals. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The Reception Room was shabby, but Lina could tell that it had once been impressive. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Farther on the fishwives were crying the day’s catch, and a boy was beating time on a drum as a shabby old bear danced in a circle for a ring of river runners. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate: too short jeans, a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A few days later, he walked with it into a London building which, from the outside, looked like a church, steepled and grave, but inside was shabby, harried, knotted with people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z At the Charlestown ferry slip he washed in the cold sea water, and because the sun was warm sunned himself as he did what he could to make his shabby clothes presentable. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as shabby as the hallway and the furniture was old and mismatched. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Of course not. She’s just a baby . . .” Trotter was still shaking her head at Rhine as he brought her back around the counter, W.E. clutching at her shabby coat. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Seconds later Harry’s lungs expanded gratefully and he opened his eyes: They were now standing in the middle of a familiar small and shabby square. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was a single room, lit by a naphtha lamp on the table, and clean but shabby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Dumbledore stepped into a hallway tiled in black and white; the whole place was shabby but spotlessly clean. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He notices that my clothes are shabby and that very afternoon the Monday Man arrives with more. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Henry went to the window and pulled aside a shabby lace curtain. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His furniture was mismatched and thrift-store shabby, yet on the floor beneath them were museum-quality tapestries that could have been priceless. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The mighty Thurgood Marshall was forced to join us in a greasy joint that served wilted lettuce on overcooked hamburgers in the shabby section of our neighborhood known as Ninth Street. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not long ago in a large university town in California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They work their way to a common area where there is a television, a Coke machine, a shabby sofa, and an assortment of chairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It would be good to shed these shabby woolen garments and feel once more the softness of silk against her skin, and to hear the rusde of petticoats wherever she moved. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Exactly one month before the Egypt Game began in the Professor’s backyard she had come, very reluctantly, to live in the shabby splendor of an old California-Spanish apartment house called the Casa Rosada. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The ride ended too quickly, in front of a large, shabby building. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Dotty is the marquee attraction, a once-beloved television star now reduced to headlining this shabby tour of a feeble play. Review: Michael Frayn’s ‘Noises Off’ Returns to Broadway 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Dancing a tango with his shabby blanket and buttonholing the audience with immense charm, he refuses to lie down and go quietly. Silent – review 2012-06-07T13:46:34Z There Rumi inherited his father’s mantle, presided over a shabby but magnetic seminary, and became one of the most beloved and discussed religious figures in the realm. How Did Rumi Become One of Our Best-Selling Poets? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Set in a shabby corner of Reykjavik, Iceland, far from the usual tourist attractions, the movie focuses on four teenage boys struggling in that sticky, confusing, inescapably unsettling space between childhood and adulthood. ‘Beautiful Beings’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys Will Be Violent Jerks 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z To Amy, Danny is a shabby workman who invaded her sanctum, the one she paid for with her own money and barely enjoys. What makes "Beef" so seductive? Understanding the intimacy of rage sheds light on that ending 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Around the room, the machines’ shabby curtains snap open and bang shut; the vestal poll-watchers bend low over their thick volumes; and once again I have forgotten the number of my assembly district. What We Can All Do at This Moment Is Vote 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z And regardless of what the actors on stage are wearing, you feel as if they’ve all been caught in public dressed in nothing but their shabbiest underwear. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Good Glitch, Bad Glitch 2011-02-10T17:42:16Z Anna's experience with the voice leads her to wash up on the shores of a shabby seaside motel in Maine. Lydia Millet has cooked up a contemplative thriller of endurance in 'Sweet Lamb of Heaven' 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z All through school, in his teens and twenties, he played gigs, alone and with bands, determined to make a living, however shabby, as a musician. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z From our different vantage points, my daughters and I look at our millennial comrades and see what the shabby bill of goods they and their boomer parents were sold has wrought. Why I'm OK with my kids "falling behind" in school during the pandemic 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z In the shabby hotel room, an itinerant preacher has come to the end of the road. Words Make a Room: The Plays of Enda Walsh 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Advertisement The film opens in an unlikely spy den, a shabby studio in a Brooklyn tenement where Abel – a magnificent Mark Rylance – is staring into a mirror. Review: In ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Spielberg Considers the Cold War 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Not to mention the shabby way he treated the loyal Bob Hobbitt, whose ailing little son, Puny Pete, longed to leave life as a cabin boy for a career as a seamstress. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Some years later and a few states away, photographer Jason Falchook is similarly drawn to the ordinary and slightly shabby. Review | In the galleries: Where have all the people gone? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z They reappear to reveal themselves as figures in what look like Hazmat suits in a stark and shabby room. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The only props were a dilapidated trailer home and its shabby contents, some spilling onto the grass outside. Opera film ‘Soldier Songs’ about war trauma heads to Grammys 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z That was literally so in the case of the classic woven Bottega bag, shabby with loving use. Special Report: Fashion Special Report: In High Definition Color 2011-01-16T18:42:01Z They will tell you how the block against charging fees means shabby buildings and overfilled classes. Hey British moaners: Germans want to be more like us 2013-05-19T18:15:12Z His own shaggy, rambling manner, and his shabby circumstances, suggest Charles Bukowski, but with more blarney and less compassion. Movie Review: Paul Weitz?s ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert De Niro 2012-03-01T22:37:28Z Sure, I’m a bit melancholy that The Post is moving from its own shabby modernist headquarters to occupy a few floors of a swanky corporate office building. Post Classic iPad app: Experience the best of old-school and high-tech 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z We are a wary family, familiar but suspicious, and even the rich twits in their top hats, jewelry and furs look a little shabby. Perspective | Robert Frank’s photographs captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z No matter how many shabby has-beens he goes on to play, he will forever be associated with his ruthless portrayal of Gordon Gekko, the unapologetic capitalist of Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street.” Michael Douglas Refuses to Age Gracefully in ‘The Kominsky Method’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Both come out this arrangement looking a little shabby. Do too many authors spoil the book? 2011-02-14T16:02:57Z Arriving at the address provided, Henry finds a shabby taxidermy shop run by a man also named Henry. 'Beatrice and Virgil': Yann Martel's haunting fable of humans, animals and violence 2010-04-14T21:26:00Z The shabby rooms and ordinary streets in “Poetry” are shown without fanfare, more like statements of facts than pieces of an evolving narrative. | 'Poetry': Consider an Apple, Consider the World 2011-02-10T22:31:06Z The slightly shabby promenade reminded me of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, another place with a Russian soul. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z She rejects the shabby bargain Reynolds offers her, which demands the complete suppression of her will in exchange for his occasional recognition of her existence. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Onstage, though, Javelin is a shabbier proposition, though not unwelcomely so. Music Review: Javelin Celebrates New Album at Santos Party House 2010-04-23T22:41:00Z Treating the building and its forgotten contents as a sort of political mausoleum, Barnard shows us shabby and empty blue spaces, stained carpets and crumbling plasterboard, stopped clocks, empty chairs and abandoned shoes. Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard; The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – review 2013-03-25T11:00:01Z Rio Clarinho was a bit shabby — its bathrooms could use an overhaul — but a likable, honest place. Frugal Traveler Blog: It's a Jungle Out There: Wildlife in the Pantanal 2011-10-18T19:05:50Z And when we walked around, we saw just how shabby the place was. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z This young film-maker has to reconstruct what she can from newsreels, an official propaganda film and talking to people who knew him, and she uncovers a shabby story of official mistreatment. Andrzej Wajda: great director had Poland written on his heart | Peter Bradshaw 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Freddie and Camille's artistically shabby flat is like something out of the Toast catalogue, what with the plaster walls and sparse furnishings, and the strings of Christmas ornaments hanging prettily from the ceiling on thread. The Hour: series two, episode four 2012-12-05T22:00:00Z At its finest — and with help from nonprofessionals, including real jockeys like Logan Cormier — it brings you into shabby back rooms in which riders pray, bare scars and anxiously, excitedly, wait for the next race. ‘Jockey’ Review: Hit Hard and Still Riding 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z His adenoidal Willie is comically repulsive, all animal urges clothed in shabby relics of refinement. Review: In Beckett’s ‘Happy Days,’ a Woman Buried Deep by Inertia 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Fiennes and Butler emerge at lunchtime, with the crew of 100 or so, to eat in a marquee at the edge of town next to a shabby fairground. Ralph Fiennes's full-metal Coriolanus 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z That's not too shabby for the 47-year-old -- a former punk rocker who abandoned music for comedy, eventually found fame on TV, settled down, and is now married with an 8 year-old son. Craig Ferguson: dragon slayer 2010-03-24T19:18:00Z “Frog” aside, these films aren’t especially memorable, and their stories are cut from shabby cloth. For the First Time Ever, I’m Optimistic About Women in the Movie World 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The homes are interesting for architecture buffs but I can’t recommend them unreservedly as rentals: the mix of shabby vintage furniture and second-rate modern appliances gives the whole project a slightly amateurish feel. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z While Simenon’s novel is set mainly in Montmartre, Delannoy shifted the location to Le Marais, shooting much of the action in what were then the shabby streets in and around Place des Vosges. In ‘Maigret Sets a Trap,’ Pack Your Pipe and Track a Killer 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z After rehearsing the scene, Mr. Friend emerged from the house with a frilly white-and-green flowered apron tied around his shabby tweeds. Rupert Friend Is Tired of Killing 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z I pass more than one itinerant woman in shabby chic clothes. Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z Most of the actors are performing from their own apartments, but via green screens and projected photographs, they step into a rich assortment of shabby urban and lush pastoral environments. Review: Streaming Consciousness Floods ‘A School for Fools’ 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The characters speak in dramatic, declamatory French, as if in a 19th-century play, and their costumes range from corseted dresses and shabby tailcoats to power suits and leather jackets. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z I loved seeing Branagh as a shabby showman in “The Entertainer” and adored the thought-provoking “Oil.” A theater-lover’s introduction to London’s multiplicity of stages 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Aaron, in a shabby suit, surprises Julian and his husband, Philip, arriving unannounced at their Prospect Park apartment while Julian is at work. Don’t Mess With Texas. This Novel’s Characters Show Why. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Auden’s comment: “When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.” Edward St. Aubyn Wraps Serious Thoughts About Science in an Entertaining Package 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z The title of this small-scale existentialist musical from the writer-director Malachi Smyth refers to the bag of cash two shabby crooks have driven to a sleepy stretch of England. ‘The Score’ Review: Songs in the Key of Heist 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z This room is really quite polished, even though outside is chaos, and my house is very English: shabby, Old English. For Victoria Beckham, a Neutral Zone Amid Chaos 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z He hitchhikes to distant factories, drops off job applications and is summarily jeered at for his shabby clothes and poor hygiene. Review | ‘Welfare’ offers a sly critique of public assistance — and capitalism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Their shabby Washington State town is a grim dead end whose residents all seem to supplement their meager incomes through crime, be it dealing drugs or white-collar chicanery. Review: In ‘7 Minutes,’ From Jay Martin, a Bank Robbery Plan Implodes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Exiled from his biological family, he bonds with a group of outsiders, homeless drag queens and hustlers who live on the streets or pile, as many as a dozen at time, into a shabby apartment. For ‘Stonewall,’ an Indiana-Born Avatar 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The October sun was blazing pale when their Mercedes pulled up to a low-rise office complex, its white brick rendered shabby by newer developments. T Magazine: Year of the Couturi?re 2010-12-01T17:25:00Z Perhaps there is an excuse to revive “The Lesson” as a shabby, sensationalist shocker for dancers who are already well known to their audiences. Dance Review: A Danish Modern Twist Updates Classical Ballet 2011-06-15T22:03:19Z "The trench coat was a little bit shabby, and so I liked it. There's a kind of slight air of refugee about him," said McMullan. From Poirot to Pünd: How "Magpie Murders" evolved its outsider detective 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z This lunar metropolis, called Artemis, population 2,000, is modeled in part after a Caribbean resort island — opulent hotels for the tourists and shabbier accommodations for the workers. Andy Weir's 'The Martian' was a huge hit. And now he's hoping he's not a one-hit wonder. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Emond asked for her clothes to be shabbier, since her character sings about being impoverished at the beginning of the show. 'Cabaret's' Linda Emond, Danny Burstein enjoy adding their imprints 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z As directed by Mr. Gray, on a set that brings to mind any old shabby rehearsal room, “The Events” bends and warps chronology. Review: In ‘The Events,’ a Shooting Leaves a Survivor in Purgatory 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z We walked three blocks into a barrio with buildings aging like melted sugar cubes and people who, it seems, view the world from their shabby doorsteps. A very happy new year, that happened in Havana 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z So when his mother dies suddenly, leaving the rent on their shabby São Paulo apartment overdue, the teenager springs into action. ‘Socrates’ Review: Surviving on the Streets of São Paulo 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The Shunt Lounge, their home underneath London Bridge station, was a shabby palace of subterranean grandeur in which they helped support and develop a dizzyingly range of work. Share your theatre memories of 2010 2010-12-29T09:43:57Z The rest of the cast weren't so shabby either. TV review: Last Tango in Halifax; Fresh Meat 2012-11-20T23:00:01Z For the rest of his life, Akutagawa, who was farmed out to live with an uncle’s family in a shabby industrial ward in Tokyo, feared he would inherit his mother’s madness. His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z I made my way over to Saks Fifth Avenue, but felt shabby and intimidated by the sophisticated saleswomen and was afraid to ask for help. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Omar lives with three other men in a shabby house that is mostly empty — as if no one wants to put down roots for fear of staying. "Limbo" will break your heart with the whimsical yet agonizing in-between life of refugees 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z We were introduced to MP Jeremy Hunt; sporting a rather shabby cream suit, he delivered a pretty good speech. Oscars 2012: Nominees' diary 2012-02-26T18:39:40Z They are precisely furnished chambers, shabby but tidy, that seem suspended in a murky twilight. Review: The Private Dystopias of ‘Arlington’ and ‘Rooms’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Jackson has thought deeply about bereavement, and it seems shabby to dispraise a book so acutely observed, and seemingly as lacking in novelistic calculation as it is lacking in novelistic ambition. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Generally by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. Ethan Hawke: 'Nothing went the way I thought it would' 2012-02-08T19:00:00Z The bureaucrats and security men often live in shabby areas of cities such as Damascus and Homs. Paying the price 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z It's older and shabbier, covered in pine needles, small compared to the beach-front mansions others on the island have. How "Fire Island" does Jane Austen 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z His erratic and narcissistic father, Lord Randolph Churchill, saw the boy as “among the second rate and third rate,” predicting that his life would “degenerate into a shabby, unhappy and futile existence.” Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z His red carpet action during the awards season campaign for the musical “A Strange Loop,” where he played one of those pesky Thoughts, wasn’t shabby, either. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Thomas pretty much lets O’Connor off the hook for her shabbiest moment on the court — her decisive role in the 5-to-4 travesty that was Bush v. An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z It was a gray, damp day in mid-December, and Oh and Convery were on the set of the BBC America espionage drama “Killing Eve” outside a shabby, institutional office building in East London. ‘Killing Eve’ Is Back: Early, but Not a Moment Too Soon 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z I was talking about handsome cabs, as opposed to the shabby ones that were also plying the streets of the capital back then. TV review: Sherlock, Alan Titchmarsh's Walks of Fame and Come Dine with Me Down Under 2010-08-01T22:00:00Z The contemporary art scene in the Hamptons isn’t too shabby. Clouds Have Lifted, and the Hamptons Beckon 2011-05-25T22:26:19Z Fifteen years later, the house that capitalism built looks rather shabby. An Economist Who Believes Only Government Can Save Capitalism 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z As acutely photographed by Winterbottom's regular Danish collaborator, Marcel Zyskind, it's a shabby place of sturdy official buildings surrounded by dilapidated housing, set in an arid landscape of scrub, sand, oil derricks and distant mountains. The Killer Inside Me 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Even the mega-hit King Of The Hill came in for shabby treatment, being cancelled and reprieved twice. The man behind Butt-head: Mike Judge 2010-04-23T23:13:00Z When this singing adaptation of the venerable comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” originally opened 35 years ago, New York was a shabby and embattled city, reeling from the threat of bankruptcy. Theater Review: ‘Annie,’ Starring Katie Finneran, at the Palace Theater 2012-11-09T03:37:23Z Alone in a shabby apartment, where posters of Steve Martin grimace from the walls, Trevor practices his delivery in mirrors and absent-mindedly lights scraps of paper on fire. Movie Review: ‘Ape,’ by Joel Potrykus, Follows a Tortured Loser 2014-04-25T00:21:54Z Mr. Kessler varied the formula by making the interloper a rich gangster instead of a shabby homeless man. Theater Review: ‘Orphans,’ With Alec Baldwin, at the Schoenfeld Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:01Z Ms. Sandhofer, who is from Austria, worked as an interior decorator in Berlin and New York and says she wanted to bring her shabby chic aesthetic to her favorite vacation spot. On Ibiza’s Quiet Side, Seafood Shacks and Deserted Coves 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The play is being staged in the city’s South End, described in “Common Ground” as “a shabbier, scruffier part of the city,” but now polished and pricey. Boston Revisits ‘Common Ground’ and Busing, Onstage 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Don’t be fooled by the shabby storefronts and laid-back assistants; the Lower-Lower East Side is all business and ambition. Art Review: Rising and Regrouping on Lower East Side 2011-04-22T03:31:42Z I'm sitting in a room furnished like a shabby office. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z The shabby amusement-park setting of author and illustrator Lane Smith’s first novel should tip readers off to the wordplay, upended conventions and plot shenanigans in store. The best children’s books for June 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z As a self-proclaimed "gun-toting gay redneck" and the former operator of a shabby wildlife park, he may seem like the furthest thing from a cutthroat capitalist. Joe Exotic channels the spirit of America’s 19th-century tiger kings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z A slave’s cabin with a lone glassless window and shabby furnishing is a dismal rebuke to the main house. Following Audubon?s Footsteps in Louisiana 2010-04-15T21:58:00Z When the sun finally came out and the wind relented, we outfitted Roxie in the smallest life vest we could find and climbed aboard F.D.R.’s glass-bottomed boat — a shabby vessel with a picture frame bottom. A Jamaica Trip With the Ultimate Travel Amenity: A Nanny 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Nairobi Nights October 8, 2010, 3:05 pm Until the Tribe opened in Nairobi two years ago, boutique hotels were almost unknown to the Kenyan capital, where accommodations tend to be more shabby than chic. Nairobi Nights 2010-10-08T19:05:00Z Our wish is that it will be adopted by a new family who might toss a colorful suzani or an antique quilt on it and turn it from shabby to boho chic. Reupholster or replace? It’s not an easy answer. 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The camera moves in on Candy's lifeless, battered body, dumped in a closet and discarded like the tissues littering the shabby room's floor. The boldest "Pose" episode yet: This shocking turn affirms the show's genius 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z It is a cavernous room outfitted with lamps, a collection of shabby and ornate furniture, a patchwork of rugs and an old car. ‘Hamlet’ in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The shabby bathrooms are down a steep flight of stairs. A Safer Home for Dangerous Plays 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z And it took him more than a decade to find another stage role that he wanted: Donny, the avuncular owner of a shabby junk shop. Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Trailed by a herd of male admirers, she is staying with her mother, a snuff-sniffing princess beleaguered by debts, in the shabby cottage next door. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z That upsetting news arrives when the authorities burst into their shabby apartment, slap handcuffs on Arcay, then immediately subject her and Pierre to DNA tests. Review: ‘Don’t Call Me Son’ Considers Identity and Fluidity 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z But if you watch the first episode carefully, you’ll glimpse the much shabbier courthouse where the case played out, at 111 Centre Street. Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong) 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Early in Monday’s episode, we see a gilded twit kvetching into her phone about someone’s shabby yacht, before the Penguin steals her brooch. 'Gotham' Recap: The Cheap Thrill of Smacking a Rich Kid 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z But Mr. Langella luxuriates in the moment, framed in the doorway of a shabby basement apartment and looking like destiny itself in his face-shadowing fedora. | 'Man and Boy': ?Man and Boy,? With Frank Langella - Review 2011-10-10T02:01:09Z David Gallo’s set fits impressively in the Kreeger Theater; it’s a facsimile of the design he used in the Broadway production, shabby down to the grimy walls and broken linoleum floor — a ruins-in-progress. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z A crime drama created by Roy Huggins, the show featured Mr. Smith as a glamorous alternative to the shabbier investigators of other series, and Edd Byrnes as Kookie, a heartthrob parking-lot attendant. Roger Smith, ‘77 Sunset Strip’ Actor and Manager of Ann-Margret, Dies at 84 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Thus we watch the once-resplendent Merz household become increasingly shabby and bare, as what once felt like a familial fortress is transformed into a defenseless sanctuary. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Here, shabby homes enjoyed grand views, tired burros ambled along untethered and island life trudged on, oblivious to tourism. Car-free Hydra is a Greek island idyll 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In a low-lit rum bar in a fashionably shabby corner of West Hollywood, Jamie Bell recalls the first time he saw a film in a cinema. Jamie Bell: From Billy Elliot to Tintin 2011-03-13T00:03:06Z On countless street corners squats the shabby specter of these once vibrant places. Faith must fight capitalism: Forget theological purity — the church needs a revolutionary spirit 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z But it was very shabby and not nice. A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The place has an immediate shabby charm — waiters dressed in green uniforms with gold belts navigate the cavernous, dimly lit room full of tables packed with people having animated discussions. In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z This shabby, unshaven figure, who looks as if he hasn't slept for several weeks, not only sees through everyone, more crucially he sees through himself. Sons Without Fathers – review 2013-04-23T18:10:00Z It is gloriously, romantically shabby: a sheet is tacked up in place of a door, two portable heaters provide pockets of warmth, and the morning sunlight floods dusty floorboards. Life after death 2010-03-28T21:00:00Z That’s not too shabby, but The Overflow is trying to do consumers one better. The Christian Music World Now Has Its Own Streaming Service 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z In Kate Racculia’s “Bellweather Rhapsody,” two mysterious killings set 15 years apart at the same grand yet shabby hotel anchor the book, which swells with dramatic plot points and back stories. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z North Haven proved to be “a haven for the very rich,” but the island’s summer people were inclined toward a familiar New England-style shabby gentility, and “somehow we have infiltrated.” Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “Let your body tell you you’re powerful and deserving, and you become more present, enthusiastic and authentically yourself,” she said to young people gathered on shabby couches. Amy Cuddy Takes a Stand 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Her grandmother’s shack looks smaller and shabbier than Grande remembers: “Had I really lived in this place?” Never stop crossing borders 2013-01-27T15:59:00Z The latter is home to a quartet of buildings whose shabby states belie their earlier vitality. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z He describes “the red flags in Barcelona, the gaunt trains full of shabby soldiers creeping to the front, the gray war-stricken towns farther up the line, the muddy, ice-cold trenches in the mountains.” 3 Books That Explore Catalonia’s Fight for Independence 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z He's a little shabby and misogynistic, but also a loyal, determined friend, and casually hilarious without having to work at it. At long last, "The Long Kiss Goodnight" is getting the holiday affection it deserves 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z This is Hortense, newly arrived in London from Jamaica, standing at the front door of the shabby lodging house in Earls Court where her husband, Gilbert, is staying. Small Island by Andrea Levy 2011-01-08T00:08:00Z Not too shabby of a handle, but there’s just something slightly irritating about it, like there’s a secret that was lost, or just never there altogether. Jack White's Blunderbuss: The Rock Raconteur Goes It Alone 2012-04-24T10:45:54Z But the shabby attic becomes the scene of painful loss, when the central character Mimi dies of consumption, a disease that killed the poor much faster because of malnutrition and inadequate living conditions. Music Review: ?La Boh?me? at the Met: Life in Zeffirelli Style - Review 2011-11-20T22:51:46Z I patrol the warren of shabby rooms and immaculate corridors leading into deathly gloom; riffle through piles of uncollected mail heaped in corners, and hear complaining voices on the other side of the loo wall. Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario ? review 2011-08-25T10:53:51Z But when circumstances force her to return to her “shabby” family’s West Yorkshire estate to help get their financial house in order, her entrepreneurial knowledge and swaggering confidence shock the locals. Smart Watch: "Ramy" blesses us with a thoughtful, funny comedy about goodness 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z “Stand-up comedy is a shabby business, made up of shabby fellows like me who cross the country, stay at shabby hotels, and tell jokes they no longer find funny,” he writes in the introduction. Norm Macdonald’s Often Funny, Always Fabulist ‘Based on a True Story’ 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Crouched on the bare wooden floor of his shabby apartment in 1990 New York City, he listens as Stephen Sondheim leaves a message — instant balm to his battered artist’s soul. Cherished Words From Theater’s Encourager-in-Chief 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z It turned out to be a Travelodge — shabby, but with a nice pool and a breakfast buffet with a do-it-yourself waffle maker. Frugal Traveler: Scoring a Baseball Bargain at Spring Training 2014-03-11T20:48:06Z “Bunker Hill is old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town,” the noir master Raymond Chandler wrote, long before the neighborhood’s old rooming houses were demolished. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The table is shot from above, “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”-style, the women almost pirouetting, their slow-motion, nimble movements in sardonic contrast to the shabby room and the schlubby Army men. Bored to Death in the I.D.F. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Now, I happen to think that culture isn’t getting a shabby treatment when it’s seen in this light. What Our Extremist Politics Owe to Batman and Captain America 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z A lean old man hobbling along in a shabby suit carrying a bag bulging with bottles in one hand: what a sight. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Moser was self-made; his father was a school caretaker, and the family apartment was shabby. Antiques: Enigma Machines Fetch High Prices at Auctions 2013-05-16T19:56:44Z For all its notoriety, it is easy to forget that Blitz was a weekly club night in a shabby wine bar off Covent Garden. Steve Strange: The custodian of New Romantic pop 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Toobin goes on to lament that “Thomas pretty much lets O’Connor off the hook for her shabbiest moment on the court — her decisive role in the 5 to 4 travesty that was Bush v. Gore.” Letters to the Editor 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Despite or maybe because of its shabby condition, the 619 offered affordable work space for artists both starving and successful in the bustling center of town, cheap parking and a loading dock for art projects. Seattle reinvents its artists colony 2012-04-29T05:08:07Z Over a night of talk and imbibing, and into a morning that brings fleeting sunlight and solace, the shabby Spooner gradually penetrates Hirst's arrogant defenses. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z Stage left is occupied by a Brooklyn neighborhood bar, directly under the L train, while stage right houses a shabby upstairs apartment, its grimy windows revealing neon signage outside. | 'Little Doc': ?Little Doc? by Dan Klores: Departing Friends 2010-06-21T22:46:00Z The first half of “The Stranger” depicts a shabby idyll. ‘The Stranger,’ Made All the More So in the Person of Mastroianni 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z But it is shabby in places and needs to be replaced. How to install new wallpaper over old 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Once when Liliana was home from college, her father had an altercation with Ramos over his shabby appearance, which her father saw as a sign of disrespect. A Sister’s Murder and the Language of Violence 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z I looked around the shabby flat and, beyond the hideous woodchip wallpaper and scuffed skirting boards I was surprised to find a life. My pandemic epiphany: realizing the hole in my life was cat-shaped 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The standouts are often, like the city itself, unpredictable, a little shabby around the edges, sometimes exasperating but always compelling. 10 Movies That Capture the Essence of New York 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z He played the shabby yet still spry Spooner in the 2009 revival of Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" at the Odyssey Theatre. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z From the outside, the Kingstanding still retains a shabby grandeur: three fins strike upwards in a stylish front tower, and the curved frontage and baked ceramic tile evoke a dated glamour. Rediscovering Birmingham's movie meccas 2010-03-30T15:38:00Z The novel plunges us immediately into the shabby, slightly enigmatic reality of a rundown planet without preamble or hand-holding. Review | There’s no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. ‘The Last Day’ may set a new standard. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z This historic, charmingly shabby neighborhood in central Rio goes late into the night with plentiful street food — and cheap drinks. Latin America Issue: 36 Hours in Rio de Janeiro 2010-09-17T05:01:00Z If he looked shabbier, less domesticated, he could be mistaken for one of those thrown-away men who roam city streets muttering into the void of other people’s indifference. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Some of the melodies — played by a four-man band on Joseph B. Musumeci Jr.’s set of a shabby cabaret — are quite pleasing, such as the tune for the ensemble number, “Pluck Down the Stars.” ‘Nero/Pseudo’ by WSC Avant Bard fiddles away its glam-rock musical potential Nor is an index, either of poems or first lines, which seems a trifle shabby. Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review 2013-03-12T09:59:01Z It's not just entertainment for the shabby chic masses; Prince Henrik – husband of Queen Margrethe – is a patron and regularly attends the cinema's French season of screenings. Cine-files: Grand Teatret, Copenhagen 2013-04-10T08:46:14Z The film makes much of the weird incongruity of shabby austerity England coming into contact with the bomb, living relics of the Victorian age confronting the world of Hiroshima. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z For example the Museum of Modern Art’s contribution — which jumps from 22 Post-Impressionist works, including van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” to 86 works dating from the early 1980s forward — seems almost shabby in its omissions. Critic?s Notebook: Google Art Project?s Expanded Offerings 2012-04-11T19:59:11Z The shabby, no-light, duplex apartment that is home to the “The Humans,” this year’s Tony winner for best new play, is moving uptown. For ‘The Humans,’ Home Is Where the Set Moves 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In stylishly shabby costumes by Willa Kim, 14 dancers draw out subtle layers of the music, its weight as much as its buoyancy. Dance Review: Juilliard Dances Repertory in Modern Classics 2014-03-24T22:53:13Z Interlaced throughout “School Girls” is a note of poignancy: for these girls, the pageant is not an example of female exploitation or marker of shabby Western values. Review | Mean girls are at home in Ghana, too 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Once while in Philly I went to do an interview in a shabby and very hood basement studio complex. Lupe Fiasco Pens Open Letter on Ghostwriting 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z We learn the Tag Man's identity early on, and about the shabby secrets he finds on his nocturnal break-ins. New crime fiction by Penny, Woodrell and Mayor 2011-10-05T22:49:03Z It’s shabby, and looks every bit of its 67 years. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Nirvana staged their comeback here after the Coma In Roma; the Stone Roses ended here, shabby and off-key; for some reason, the Leeds site attracts arsonists. The 10 best music festivals 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z They share a shabby apartment; Lincoln, fatefully, works as a Lincoln impersonator at an amusement park where patrons pretend to assassinate him, while Booth makes ends meet by shoplifting. Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Cinematically, this edition isn’t too shabby: On Sunday at 4 p.m., the preservationist Serge Bromberg will present restored comedy shorts that star Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton. Movie Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z There's a photograph of the front of the house, a red-brick semi with a shabby yellow door and uneven nets in the curved window. If we can't buy JG Ballard's former home, then we should at least erect a statue to him 2011-07-17T21:00:00Z Several decades later some of them are still with me, albeit faded and shabby. Let each of us write our own history in 100 objects 2010-12-26T19:00:00Z Despite her good fortune she harbors some Madame Bovary tendencies, aching for a life of pampered thrills and finding her own existence — a spacious apartment, luxury vacations — shabby. In ‘Adèle,’ a Young Woman Pounds Champagne, Spurns Hermès and Destroys Lives 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z It’s not shabby, especially for a case involving no physical injury, but it’s not the bonanza it would at first appear. Erin Andrews’ peephole video nightmare isn’t over 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z There will be no whiff of success to encourage shabby compromises. What the Robert Redford film The Candidate teaches us about Nick Clegg 2010-04-21T09:53:00Z The Turbine Hall remains a stark counterpoint to the surrounding five-story plaster apartment buildings, a leviathan in a neighborhood grown a bit shabby since Mr. Behrens’s time. 2010-01-19T18:11:00Z The murder occurred in February 1992, in a shabby house in a small town in Louisiana. A murder, a memoir and the secrets that bind them together 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The venue was a shabby supper club in one of the roughest parts of town. Solomon Burke: gone but never forgotten 2010-10-11T12:58:00Z Okay, so it’s not quite the hit parade of female friendship that is Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour, but Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour isn’t too shabby when it comes to special guests. Watch Katy Perry Dance on Stage With Madonna 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z But its value lies in the director's alternative emphasis on the spiritual desolation in the long, shabby aftermath to Iraq. Cannes film festival review: Route Irish 2010-05-19T16:32:00Z It’s certainly more fun than reading Wikipedia entries or spending an afternoon in Cleveland’s shabby Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, though the central problem with the tedium of rock scholarship remains. ‘Sonic Highways’: Dave Grohl’s busy but beautiful road trip Equally influential is the Polder, a sofa designed by Ms. Jongerius to evoke the idiosyncrasies of a beloved, slightly shabby family heirloom, even though it was rigorously engineered by Vitra’s factories. 2010-02-14T19:40:00Z Taking in the shabby beauty of manors and mansions … All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry. TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; Joely Richardson on Shakespeare's Women 2012-06-19T22:05:01Z Because the shabby treatment of female moviemakers isn’t about quality or box office or seriousness or relevance: it’s simply about women. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Noble Rot on East Burnside keeps it seasonal by growing many of its ingredients on its rooftop garden, while the views across the river aren’t too shabby either. Portland city guide: what to see plus the best hotels, bars and restaurants 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z The orphans’ shabby flat in Rome, where they must now learn to fend for themselves, echoes with the shock of bereavement. Movie Review: Alicia Scherson’s Moody, Mysterious ‘Il Fortuno’ 2013-09-06T02:43:31Z "It was a rather shabby trick," said Bailey. Alfred Russel Wallace, the forgotten man of evolution, gets his moment 2013-01-20T00:06:58Z Its shabby grandeur, narrow alleys and sweeping views of the Bay of Naples with Vesuvius as a backdrop make the city a natural open air film set. Naples, a City of Contradictions, Is Once Again a Home for Cinema 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The things that should act as intermediaries between Mayer's thing and the life in and around it – balustrades, shop fascias, ceiling panels and paving – are ordinary going on shabby. J?rgen Mayer H 2011-03-27T00:04:06Z His is a world of dull chaps in dull suits trying not to think about shabby, shame-filled compromises and betrayals. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z When, toward the end, a switch is thrown to reveal just how tawdry and shabby the seemingly golden Studio really is, it’s hardly a shock. Review: A Dirge for Wilting Salad Days in ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z A shabby wooden board served as a bridge across. In Tourist-Heavy Maui, Finding Deals and Aha Moments 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z This rather cheerful surround contrasts with the dusty and desolate array of the items themselves, packed in shabby cardboard boxes and suitcases on the floor, along with appliances, a motorbike and a bicycle. Art Review: Ai Weiwei Survey Lands at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-04-17T21:00:53Z When he showed up for their first date in shabby clothes, Newell wrote off his appearance to his business schedule and down-to-Earth attitude. Viral podcast “Dirty John” goes Bravo: It’s true crime, “Real Housewives”-style 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The Oscars are the ultimate red carpet fashion show, with outfits ranging from chic to shabby. Oscar fashion 2010-03-08T06:41:00Z Among the play’s string of soliloquies, the one delivered by Mr. Pendleton in the small role of a gay screenwriter numbed by existence comes closest to the desired state of shabby grace. | 'Small Craft Warnings': Barroom Dirges of the Working Class 2011-02-22T22:02:02Z Mind you, it’s a particular aesthetic, one that’s most likely to appeal to people who are after an industrial, shabby chic or bohemian look. Turning Your Vacation Photos Into Works of Art 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Black-and-white scenes that open episode 1 are set in a post-“Breaking Bad” bleakness, quickly flashing back to the vibrant, high-desert color and light of shabby Albuquerque — which is understood to be the past. Review of AMC’s ‘Better Call Saul’: Every sleazeball has a story to tell 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z I've become too shabby to be too posh to be privileged. One last thing: Joanna Lumley 2010-07-02T23:07:00Z Dementia is shabbier, associated with the distasteful process of ageing, something that we would all much rather forget about. The raw horror of Alzheimer's 2010-06-01T20:00:00Z Its few pieces of shabby furniture are the castoff possessions of an aristocratic woman from whom his father bought the apartment. Bertolucci’s ‘Me and You,’ About a Struggling Adolescent 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The interior is basic verging on shabby, with linoleum tiles covering a concrete floor and a few cobwebs in the corner. Next Stop: Pokhara, Nepal, Becomes Nepal?s Top Yoga Destination 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z Bunny Christie’s immersive prison environment, which seems both shabby and sanitized, in that way peculiar to state institutions, is reminder enough that this is not your usual stage set. Review: In ‘The Tempest,’ Liberation and Exhilaration 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z And the G-string made of sweets, tagged: “After four years, he turned out to be as shabby as his presents.” A museum devoted to the wreckage of lost love 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z They have midday sex after meeting for the first time, get married and then he has to investigate an establishment cover-up concerning his wife, which discloses the British government’s shabby dealings. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Plus a blond Antipodean who reckons he's not too shabby, a Shabby who is, and an Ife, pronounced Iffy, who's quite hot. Big Brother and Father and Son 2010-06-11T05:45:00Z We are in the tidy if shabby kitchen of Tony and Sally-Mae Carter, a young laborer and a newly minted beautician expecting their first child. Review: In ‘Too Heavy for Your Pocket,’ Who Can Afford Civil Rights? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Not too shabby for a video of a washing machine and not, y'know, an actual vacation snap. With nowhere to fly, TikTok users are now recreating the experience of airline travel 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z It captures the gulf that yawns between the glamour of the ballet world, the performances, the parties, the galas and the shabby conditions in which the dancers spend most of their lives. Flesh and Bone: great dancing, shame about the plot 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The planned shopping district has been indefinitely shelved, turned into a municipal park, albeit a temporary and slightly shabby one. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Along with an eclectic group of other journalists from various countries, Marie was staying in a shabby hotel in Tyre, at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. A Book That Captures the Singular Life of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “Interior,” the biggest work, uses plywood partitions, faded wallpaper, shabby carpet remnants and old suitcases, among other sad items, to evoke an itinerant and semiprivate lifestyle. Art in Review: VLASSIS CANIARIS: ?Sculptures: 1973-74? 2011-10-06T20:59:00Z That shabby interior practically defined the Pavilion in its final days, making the newly refurbished space seem luxurious by comparison. Nitehawk Prospect Park Is Finally Ready, Promising Art-House Movies (and Cleaner Floors) 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z They have shabby kitchens and get insufficient sleep. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z We see him in his shabby clothes, with holes in his breeches and toes poking through broken shoes, carrying his rusting fowling-piece. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Beneath the giant corrugated iron roof is a shabby stage, a sprawl of picnic tables and market stalls, and young Nigerians playing pool or leaning at a bar watching West Bromwich Albion. Fela Kuti musical moves to Nigeria 2011-03-04T12:57:01Z Kathleen talks about another row of cottages, adjacent to hers, which are somehow inferior—their yard is littered with toys and debris; they’re shabbier. Mary Grimm on the Rituals and Stories of Summer 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z It is a mecca for aspiring artists wanting some creative magic, who are drawn to the city's shabbier districts by the cheap rents. Artist of the week special: Tjorg Douglas Beer, Annette Kelm, Jonathan Meese 2011-03-16T18:25:57Z Few people there were my age, and in my mind I ruled the shabby chic hallways like Eloise at the Plaza. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Often, I felt like one of those shabby, broken men you saw down on River Road; language was the ill-fitting overcoat I struggled to inhabit. In Nairobi, a feeling of otherness in a place he considers almost like home “It’s almost like a masculine shabby chic,” said Tom Julian, a fashion consultant and the author of two men’s style books with Nordstrom. Front Row: Men Refine the Art of Rolling Up Pants Legs 2010-07-12T22:14:00Z What lies within may be lovely or shabby, homey or creepy, but from the outside, the town is monochromatic industrial. 'Fortitude' features polar bears and cold-blooded murder 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z James Badge Dale is the woolly-haired, mumbly lead, a data analyst in a shabby, dimly lit, underfunded policy organisation based in Washington. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-08-20T23:09:00Z His vintage car has a cassette deck in the dashboard, and he lives in a shabby apartment amid stacks of vinyl records and old concert posters. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He was indeed a man in the dock, but the crimes he was pleading guilty to were treachery, double-dealing and shabby behaviour, and there was nothing noble or tragic about them. Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter' to Sylvia Plath: second thoughts 2010-10-15T15:01:00Z The answer, I knew, lay beyond the tourist district, in the shabby streets of their rione. Elena Ferrante’s Naples, Then and Now 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z She compared it to the current hit “Succession,” though she remarked that on “Succession” they wear shabbier clothes. Joan Collins Just Gets on With It 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The museum moved in December 2007 from its previous location in an up-market SoHo shopping area to the new site in a shabbier part of town. Japanese architects Sejima, Nishizawa win Pritzker 2010-03-29T01:31:00Z On the other hand, £5.57m for a fourth weekend of release is not too shabby, and compares favourably with Avatar's £4.77m haul at that exact stage of its run. Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 brings Skyfall's day to a close 2012-11-20T11:30:46Z In one anecdote from “Elegy for Iris,” he wrote of their last swim together at a favorite spot along a small river in Oxford, she in “her shabby old one-piece swimsuit.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Other great works are subjected to shabby premieres, their worth revealed only in ensuing years. Music Review: Tactus, Student Ensemble, at the Manhattan School of Music 2012-02-08T22:58:19Z But our problematic relationship to the kind of mythomaniacal ghost tour guide, whose only marker of authority is a shabby supermarket-bought cape, renders this remaking of the world enthrallingly unstable. Walking tours are the real fringe theatre 2010-12-20T11:38:27Z In the play’s opening scene, Carolyn is standing outside her shabby apartment building in the Overtown neighborhood, calling on her, uh, lover to turn back on the power, which just went out. Review: ‘Little Children Dream of God,’ a Drama of Haitian Refugees 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z From the battlefields of Europe, Ulysses returns to London’s East End, particularly to a shabby Georgian tavern called the Stoat and Parot, home to a preternaturally clever bird. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Allersmead is the Harper family's home, a big shabby Edwardian villa where Alison and Charles's six children – four girls, two boys – spent their idyllic childhood. Family Album by Penelope Lively and The Long Song by Andrea Levy 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z Manufacturers in Europe and the United States caricatured Jews as shabby, greedy and menacing, and put these depictions on cigar boxes, candlesticks, trays, tiles, walking sticks, puppets and board games. Antiques: Anti-Semitic Artifacts, New York History and Greek Coins 2011-12-22T23:04:32Z There is something almost quintessentially indie and shabby about them, as though they can't really be bothered to appeal to a bigger audience because they'd rather sit on that sofa and eat chips. New band of the day ? No 956: Young Buffalo 2011-01-28T16:22:16Z In the title story, for example, the schoolgirl narrator defies attempts to shame her mispronunciations and shabby clothes while she simultaneously tries to protect her parents from similar ridicule. Review | In ‘How to Pronounce Knife,’ stories of Lao immigrants reveal everyday moments of racism, classism, power and privilege 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z On their first date, Andie is adamant to the point of tears that she doesn’t want Blane to see her house, because it’s small and shabby, and in a not-as-nice neighborhood. Why “Pretty in Pink” endures: John Hughes’ classic is more than just another teen movie 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z It wasn’t just the boardroom — a stage set built in Trump Tower because Mr. Trump’s real offices were too shabby — in which he told unlucky applicants and celebrities, “You’re fired.” Donald Trump Was the Real Winner of ‘The Apprentice’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z He wrote Cleopatra “for the timbre, the shadings — everything about my voice, which is not too shabby, actually,” Ms. Price said. Leontyne Price, Legendary Diva, Is a Movie Star at 90 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It's as if this lustrous piece of architecture has grown out of the shabby edifices surrounding it, and it's come to symbolise Birmingham's potential to develop further in culture and the arts. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z Not too shabby for an artist that last year says he was part of the crowd and, one year later, is part of the lineup people pay to see. Pitchfork Festival Day 3: Tree, Foxygen, Killer Mike kick things off 2013-07-22T00:56:00Z Hancock displays the hardscrabble lot of the travelling salesman, with phone calls to the home office made at parking-lot pay phones and lonely nights in shabby hotels. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Maybe their folding tables, plastic chairs and worn silverware looked too shabby. Personal Journeys : Learning to Love ‘the People’s Food’ in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2013-05-02T23:30:49Z Meanwhile, Labour MP Barry Sheerman called for Lord Patten to resign, telling the Commons he was shocked to hear the BBC Trust chairman describe the PAC report as "unfair and shabby". off was cavalier - MPs 2012-12-20T14:45:03Z A shabby chic four-bedroom farmhouse hosts a rotating cast of guests from HOWL’s 300-strong mailing list, who stay for days or weeks at a time, tending to the land or making art. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z I think they’re doing two things: they were low-balling the bid and they were delivering shabby 3-D, because they had no choice, because it had to be done as a throughput thing. ArtsBeat: An Interview With James Cameron 2010-10-19T13:40:00Z Augie works at a shabby amusement park that becomes a lot more interesting — and weird — when a supernatural creature shows up. Best children’s books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, in Niagara Falls, New York, the visitor who ventures inside the shabby, underfinanced state park is surprised to discover vestiges of something like a natural landscape. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Niagara Falls 2011-05-26T18:29:08Z That’s admittedly not too shabby — but then again, there are five of them compared to just one Swift. Taylor Swift Is 2016's Highest-Paid Celebrity (By a Lot) 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Indeed, at 87, the author of the best-selling cult novel ‘”The Ginger Man” merrily lives as a semi-reclusive gentleman farmer in shabby Grey Gardens-style splendor on his Irish estate. T Magazine: J.P. Donleavy is Still Standing 2014-03-07T20:19:12Z But for most fans, even his best-supporting actor nominations were eclipsed by his incarnation as the sleuth in the shabby mac with no known first name and the killer catch-phrase: "One more thing..." Columbo's Peter Falk dies at 83 2011-06-24T21:14:56Z But those moments form a whole: a big, perplexingly unresolved portrait of the Soviet Union, at once shabby and mighty, caught between a mania for progress and the pull of ancient tradition. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z But it wasn't the shabby tea parlor look that brought me back. Frugal Traveler Blog: Scandinavia on $125 a Day 2012-08-24T18:02:01Z The two-level set on which Medea stews includes shabby living quarters, which evidently haven’t been redecorated since the 1970s, that open onto a spooky, woodsy backyard dominated by two ominous children’s swings. Theater Review: ‘Medea,’ Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z “It’s shabby chic but shabby very chic,” AD100 designer Robert Couturier said with a grin as he passed through 40,000 square feet of settings that evoked various rooms in the Mellons’ homes. AD Honors Bunny Mellon 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z What might have mom been thinking about as she crouched next to us in her shabby summer clothes? Slavery is America’s pre-existing condition 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Dinners in Argentina are eaten late, so assuage your hunger with a stop at a shabby white food truck with “jamón crudo” inelegantly scrawled along the side. 36 Hours in Mendoza, Argentina 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “I’d always felt shabby,” he writes, “about not doing a good enough job in looking after my father before his death.” Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z McGill isn’t shabby either, named just last week as a semifinalist for the James Beard award for Best Chef in the Northwest. Add Altstadt beer hall to the roster of new Pioneer Square spots 2014-02-27T22:26:14Z The building itself appears to exist in a sort of expressionist-realist universe: the exterior looks like a digital creation, and the interiors, with their endless shabby corridors, are like a bad dream. The Raid ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:02Z Still, eating alfresco while watching Aperol spritz sunsets wasn’t too shabby. Boats and beach huts: a family holiday on Denmark’s Ærø island 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Though the finalists last year weren't exactly shabby, a bigger initial field could mean an even higher quality of competitors. 'Sing-Off' raises the bar by twice the harmonies tonight 2010-12-06T22:40:00Z On a rainy evening in Montevideo in 1993, a hulking figure enters a shabby movie theater where the day’s final showing of a horror feature is about to begin. ‘The Last Matinee’ Review: Killer Attractions 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Suennen was struck by the star treatment she received at a plastic surgeon’s office, and contrasted it with the shabby welcome at the dentist’s office where she felt like a billing code. Doctors Should Borrow Madison Avenue Tactics And Market Themselves 2012-06-26T14:43:25Z All in all, not a shabby place to view Paris from the best vantage point in town. There Is a Secret Apartment at the Top of the Eiffel Tower 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Things start to turn around — at least in Dud’s eyes — when he ends up in front of a shabby fraternal lodge that introduces him to a friendly group of oddballs. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Lodge 49’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z In the beginning, there was the Pushkin apartment, commemorating the brilliant poet who clashed with the tsar, wrote masterpieces such as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov, and died at 37 in a shabby 1837 duel. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z He “loves the old charm and the shabby chic suites,” at the Carlyle Hotel and dining at the downtown bistro Da Silvano, “for the Italian-like atmosphere and sunny terrace.” T Magazine: A Date with Bruno Frisoni 2010-10-19T22:07:00Z The punning title of Ill Manors refers to the sink estates, shabby public buildings and dangerous streets of the impoverished, racially mixed area of Forest Gate, and to the aggressive mores of its residents. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z It was Ms. Hogg who essentially invented, through the magazine’s exquisitely crumbled aesthetic, the decorating style shabby chic. Inside The World of Interiors, Condé Nast’s Secret Weapon 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z That difference is marked enough that when Tony and Isobel tease Thomas about how shabby his outfit looks, they can get away with it. Theater Review: Mike Bartlett’s ‘Bull,’ at 59E59 Theaters 2013-05-03T02:00:01Z Your press release calls the Horne Section a "comedy-jazz juggernaut"; you tweeted recently saying it was more like a "shabby musical spectacular". Alex Horne, comedian: Edinburgh festival Q&A 2012-08-06T13:30:01Z The world of fakery is shabby, venal and unromantic. Can you love a fake piece of art? 2012-06-03T23:24:04Z He told one interviewer his shabby detective looked "like a flood victim". Columbo's Peter Falk dies at 83 2011-06-24T21:14:56Z Dima, who is studying construction and lives with his family in a shabby apartment, is an anomaly: a good Samaritan toiling in a jungle. Review: ‘The Fool’ Is Yuri Bykov’s Look at Corruption 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Thus my cultural peregrinations tended to end in shabby defeat at the Jinglin' Geordie or the Doric. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z When Penn entered the shabby villa that serves as J/P HRO’s operations center and staff residence, a line of people were waiting to talk to him. T Magazine: The Accidental Activist 2011-03-25T19:21:15Z He has a kind of ruined charisma, a shabby youth running to the seed of early middle age. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-17T15:29:01Z This vainest of Falstaffs is a genuine slob whom Boritt houses in a shabby bachelor pad wallpapered in purple zebra stripes. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z “Path,” a site-responsive piece staged in a shabby mansion to the north of the city, imagines its audience members as people in the late, sway-bellied stage of pregnancy. Making a Meal of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Walker is a classic gumshoe: a lone wolf with danger for a middle name, a shabby office and plenty of wisecracks, booze and smokes. New in crime fiction: Cleverly, Estleman, Koryta, Penny 2012-08-08T19:47:07Z Octavian, posing as a maid, lures the lusty Baron to a shabby inn, in an elaborate plot to embarrass him in front of his potential father-in-law. Savor Renée Fleming in “Der Rosenkavalier,” at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z In the foreground a party of manacled civilians are being driven forward by collaborationist militia in shabby black uniforms and white armbands. In the Fog – review 2013-04-27T23:07:06Z And now, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day — that trial by fire for the lonely — he comes home to find his shabby apartment fully cleaned out by a burglar, except for things he never wanted. Review: Going From Schlub to Slick in ‘The Other Josh Cohen’ 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Now, her music sounds so tentative, so trapped, so shabby. Be still, the unseemly beating of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s one example of how the renovation and reinstallation is intended to eliminate the Wadsworth’s shabby gentility — but not to sand down the edges of its eccentricity, or that of the collections. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z In his shabby, bereft solitude, Saul drinks alone and watches an old VCR tape from his previous life: a collection of grandiose “Better call Saul” ads. ‘Better Call Saul,’ a ‘Breaking Bad’ Spinoff on AMC 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Floor plans were tacked up on the wall, presumably for the interior design business that goes hand in hand with the store’s eroded-brute aesthetic, shabby chic for men. | Modern Anthology: Manly, or Close 2010-11-24T19:06:00Z And in recent weeks, as the wheels have flown off the shabby jalopy that is American civic life, Jett’s music has helped me feel better. Joan Jett’s Raw, Inclusive Rock and Roll 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Lamb is the boss of the fictional Slough House, a shabby warren of offices where agents of the British intelligence agency MI5 are sent if they make a sufficiently embarrassing or costly mistake. ‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The house is shabby, the food scarce, and Loquareeous remembers a warning from his birth mother: “These white people, they going to kill you.” Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It is barely discussed outside of the cloistered world of children's TV production, but kids' channel CBeebies, wildly popular with parents of young children, is poorly funded, to the point of shabby mistreatment. CBeebies is being woefully neglected by the BBC 2012-05-23T12:46:46Z Three years into the master plan, the result is a city that, while still unable to hide the shabby concrete apartment buildings and dreary stores that contribute to its aesthetic, also reveals a colorful flamboyance. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z The backup, tags intact, is stuffed at the back of my closet, ready to be called into service when the original starts to look shabby. H & M’s Ongoing High-Fashion Experiment 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The canvas, painted by the fictional artist Ervin Kálmán and worth a few million, is small, shabby and “frankly, ugly,” Matt tells us in the novel’s opening. A Father-Son Novel Served With a Twist 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Like that play, Ms. Hall’s latest offering is centered on an African-American family, ruled by an elderly woman of will, preparing to leave a shabby, claustrophobic apartment for a newer, brighter home. Theater Review: ?Hurt Village,? by Katori Hall 2012-02-28T03:00:00Z The space station was shabbier, the emotions more earthbound. The moon landing was a giant leap for movies, too 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Even now, the centenarian author resides in ritzy Palm Springs, Calif. Not too shabby for “a fat short baby-faced classroom clown” from the Bronx. At 100, Herman Wouk re-emerges with a memoir, ‘Sailor and Fiddler’ 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z She was vivid onstage: bright red dyed hair set off by the “shabby black” she favored, a coinage that became the title of one of her dance programs. Beverly Blossom, Solo Dancer With a ‘Voice,’ Dies at 88 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The prime minister considers your behaviour shabby, but you, you consider it what? Gérard Depardieu's tax move to Belgium divides France 2012-12-22T12:05:39Z There had been trouble the night before and the area was awash with policemen and vehicles, all part of Operation Swamp, launched by the Met to show who was boss of the shabby streets. When Brixton burned 2011-04-09T23:05:03Z Driving through one of the less promising parts of Tottenham a few years ago, my eye was caught by a dusty English Heritage plaque on a shabby Georgian building. Next week's radio: from The Namer Of The Clouds to This American Life 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z Now under construction and rolling on to the lot around year’s end: The Cottage, with a Victorian/“shabby chic” theme. 3 great little places to stay in Portland, Oregon 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Kaczynski’s brother recognized his writing style and tipped off authorities, who traced the former math prodigy to a shabby cabin in Montana seven months later. Some secrets do keep. A year later, the Trump official who penned an explosive op-ed is still unknown. 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Eventually, the apartment buildings are replaced by skyscrapers and the Little House lies abandoned, shabby and forgotten in their giant shadows. 'The Little House' and 'Brown Bear' chalk up big anniversaries 2012-03-24T04:14:31Z New York was in the doldrums and Greenwich Village still its old and shabby self. In Greenwich Village, the Perfect New York Bookstore Lives On 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Why is Hollywood's shabby treatment of women - ironic in an industry seen as a reliable champion of liberal causes - so stubborn? 'Girls' shine on TV, but not behind the scenes 2012-09-21T19:01:15Z You did 37 in your second set, which is not shabby. Q&A with Common: Push-ups, Tiffany Haddish and where the rapper finds inspiration and peace 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z My point is, we are living like animals, unsuccessfully foraging for food, frequently making do in shabby ways. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: These are desperate times for us humorists 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Art Nouveau, 1920s Spanish and shabby chic were all looks that the cognoscenti embraced at one time or another, but never for this long. Why Won’t Midcentury Die? 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z It gained broad acclaim upon its opening, in 2000, located in a shabby area on the wrong side of the river. Nice Museum. Where’s the Art? 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z I liked Dublin when the wattage was low and the streets were shabby. Though her purple hair shows no silver, Dame Edna prepares to retire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z They may be starting to look a little shabby and outdated in their politics, but for the most devoted fans, Twilight is every bit as immortal as the Cullens themselves. Twilight forever: how superfans kept the vampire critics at bay 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The scene escalated into something ridiculous and riotous — a shabby version of “Fame.” Subway Performances Can Be a Wonder of Grit and Grace 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z In surroundings that range from the clubby to the shabby, you can dine on everything from tartes aux champignons and Eritrean foul to braised rabbit ragout and lobster rolls, Vietnamese style. Choice Tables: Portland, Me.: Locavore in Menu and Décor 2013-08-29T19:13:32Z Poetry and humor in under 30 minutes: not too shabby. Dance Review: Sally Silvers?s ?Prize Every Time? at Roulette ? Review 2011-10-16T22:07:47Z The following morning the town’s councilors notice how embarrassingly shabby the Happy Prince now looks. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He has hopes of reclaiming her, but then learns she’s died of an overdose in a shabby Chelsea hotel, in an incident that also involved sex. Louis Begley’s ‘Kill and Be Killed’: A slick thriller from a literary lion 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Old, suspicious eyes sized us up as we made our way past kosher butchers and shabby tailor shops. Echoes From the Roman Ghetto 2013-07-12T17:36:12Z There’s a big, heaving, conflicted world beyond Kyra’s shabby little apartment. Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Lister, globe-trotting and intellectually ravenous, bemoaned her stolid and “shabby” hometown. Review: ‘Gentleman Jack’ Finds a Swaggering Woman in Want of a Wife 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z They may not want their city to be shabby. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z The set was shabby and starkly lit so that the characters’ menacing shadows on the wall acted like alter egos. Review | Russell Thomas headlines bleak ‘Otello’ at WNO 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z But the plodding pace of Jude Weng’s film, along with its shabby dialogue, distracts from the more emotionally intricate subplot of the mother returning home to her father after her husband’s death. ‘Finding Ohana’ Review: Treasure Hunting and Family Healing 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z A £61m refurbishment has ripped out the characteristically BBC warren of studios and shabby offices and created a centre for modern business. Bush House opens doors on future 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z For those of us accustomed to sounding sharp with our words, it can come as quite a blow to discover the shabby figure we cut in the ill-fitting suit of someone else’s. Review: Learning ‘English,’ When Your Accent Is a ‘War Crime’ 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The clinic isn’t hard to find, tucked in a low building on a shabby street in Kansas City, but it’s not easy to enter. It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault 2012-10-21T12:00:00Z Constance, he discovers, is on the run from Ravenswood, the shabby, turreted Victorian house where she grew up, and from the tyrannical father who still inhabits its peeling, rattling rooms. Constance by Patrick McGrath – review 2013-05-18T12:59:01Z At least this is what I told myself when I found myself divorced and living in a shabby basement apartment in Brooklyn at thirty-one. My date with a 1985 Chateau d’Yquem 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z For any man on a God-ordained mission, whether he's a Muslim or a breakaway Mormon, the end justifies the means, however shabby. Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah 2010-02-22T14:05:00Z ABT’s narrow hallways, dim offices and no-frills rehearsal studios at 890 Broadway may be a little shabby — you could kindly call them homey — but the atmosphere is pleasantly mellow and intimate. When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z In a shabby Albuquerque courtroom Jimmy gazes for a moment at the loved ones of a murdered man whose name his homicidal client doesn't even remember. "Better Call Saul" and the two faces of JMM 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z It's more shabby chic than 18th century France. Melissa without Joan: A daughter deals with loss the Rivers way 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Another thing preventing Americans from hanging outside is the shabby state of their outdoor spaces. 'Me time': Americans aren't getting enough, and they're taking it wherever they can find it, study says 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Every person we meet has a story that forces us to refocus and rethink first impressions, to see the layers beneath the flashy or shabby suits. Review: August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ Magnifies Marginalized Souls 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake, a hard-drinking country singer who rolls from town to town in his reliable, if distinctly shabby, '78 Suburban. 2009-12-16T01:15:00Z Stu lays Fran's broken body supine and Supernatural Black Girl – who, by the way, is dressed in a shabby sheath straight out of the Depression Era – faith heals all her breaks and fractures. "The Stand" finale is aggravating confirmation that Stephen King still needs more Black friends 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z He is shabby and plaintive, but unbowed; he is endlessly resourceful and adaptable; he is always being impeded but never defeated; he is bowed but not broken.” Book review: ‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life,’ by Peter Ackroyd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The spell of the Old School Tie had lost its power; people walked the streets shabby," cleaning "the brick dust from their faces and hair. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z The camera follows Mr. Sharry and his allies as they toil for long hours in shabby offices, negotiating, coaxing, pleading and, most of all, waiting. Television Review | 'The Senators? Bargain': On HBO2, ?Grand? Legislation Goes Wrong 2010-03-23T21:40:00Z Not too shabby for a rising talent, and an awful lot of attention for his signature medium, all too often overlooked in high-art circles. William J. O'Brien Transforms Artisanal Crafts into Abstract Art 2013-12-11T05:00:00Z Ken’s longing for respect makes him a ridiculous, even pathetic figure; but he has a dogged, shabby sense of honor that the film views as a joke and repeatedly undermines. ‘Queenpins’ Review: Suburban Scammers 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The house is full of treasures, but shabby and badly in need of the first major refurbishment since it was built. Dickens house finds generous benefactor in Heritage Lottery Fund 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z LaValle’s culturally observant third novel is set in a shabby urban mental hospital. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z The place is a bit strange in the sense that it’s a tourist trap but not really a resort — the bungalows are quite dull and a little shabby and the food so-so. Only in Madagascar 2010-12-20T09:00:32Z Off-kilter grids, shabby nets, transparent plastic screens—each work measures and delineates new spaces with odd, skewed geometry, forcing halting, winding pathways through the room. Leonor Antunes Channels 20th-Century Designers and Artists in Her Latest Work 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Personally, I favor a shabby hotel — give me a shabby old hotel with good staff and I’m in pigskin portmanteau heaven. T Magazine: Room With a Purview 2011-11-25T17:30:45Z Most of all, we cheer the two deputy whips – Labour's shabby sheriff Walter Harrison and dignified Tory Jack Weatherill – for whom respect trumps rivalry. This House – review 2013-03-01T18:34:44Z His set is all wooden spindles, moss-green walls, towering bookcases and shabby but solid furniture – everything is impeccably period, but the walls are all leaning at crazily expressionist angles. Candida – review 2013-07-13T23:05:35Z Accusations of miming, unfair editing and shabby treatment meted out to hopefuls have all been lobbed at the programme. Fans suspect X Factor of enhancing singers' pitch with Auto-Tune 2010-08-22T20:11:00Z For anyone who spends a certain amount of time in these spaces, even the shabbiest screening rooms acquire a certain luster. So Long to an Old (and, O.K., Shabby) Friend: Magno Screening Rooms 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z He shows Bill how to express love physically, but also aesthetically, turning Bill's neighborhood wasteland into a private shabby chic utopia. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z More and more often, I settle into a shabby, cat-clawed wing chair with the day’s newspapers and periodically snort “Harrumph!” or grumble that the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Review | How did all these books get into my house? There’s a method to what seems like madness. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The city started devolving into a mess of shabby suburbs years ago; nearby towns like Tavarnelle and Poggibonsi added industrial parks to historic centers. Architecture Review: Archea Architects’ Headquarters for Antinori Winemakers 2013-08-26T22:09:16Z Low buildings sort of look old and shabby and these shiny skyscrapers are being built. Same difference: Photographs of 32 hotel rooms in 32 countries reveal few variations 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The kitchen was small and square, with terracotta floor tiles, cracked here and there, and pine cupboards, a little shabby, and a much-repaired wooden table. Extract: Moon Pie by Simon Mason 2011-07-29T09:59:02Z While it would be a far cry from their chart-topping exploits to come, it wasn't too shabby for a largely regional act at the time. "Love and Let Die": Why the Beatles and James Bond remain strong British cultural exports 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z There’s no bonus scheme, but the job satisfaction isn’t too shabby. How to get your kids to 18, sane and not hating you 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z During the festival’s first three decades, the Dock Street was attractive and functional — comfortable and with fine acoustics – but a bit shabby. ArtsBeat: For Charleston and Spoleto, It's Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Time Once Again 2012-06-04T20:55:12Z I stayed as their guest at Tittenhurst for a few days, which obviously wasn’t too shabby for a young guy living in a little place in north London. Yes drummer Alan White, a longtime Seattle-area resident, reminisces about recording ‘Imagine’ with John Lennon 50 years ago 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Against one wall, a large wooden bar; against another, a shabby kitchen and bedroom. Immersive theater appeals to audiences wanting to take part in art 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Yet he also gets plenty right, including a school that could be a prison and a shabby bungalow with old paint and a verdant garden. | 'A Better Life': Drifting Apart, Struggling Together 2011-06-23T21:17:27Z He suggests that Ana give up her life of shabby cardigans and chicken-salad sandwiches to be installed in his downstairs bedroom as a well-kept sex slave. The Sad, Shiny Surfaces of the “Fifty Shades” Movies 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z There's a well-rounded portrait of the stodgy, patrician Edward, who has "the bluff, handsome exterior and rather shabby interior of a first-class, second-rate politician". Patience by John Coates - review 2012-10-09T07:00:02Z “She brings supreme comic obtuseness to Meg, the pathetic proprietor of a shabby seaside boarding house,” Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote of Ms. Stapleton’s performance in “The Birthday Party.” Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie’s Better Angel, Dies at 90 2013-06-01T21:08:35Z Stewart Charlesworth’s ingenious, rough-poetry set presents all the world as a shabby but colorful fun fair through which a harsher reality is always visible. London Theater Journal: A 'Carousel' That Really Moves 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z “When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes,” wrote W.H. Review | Looking back at a Bauhaus artist who tried to bridge the gap between science and art 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z We are taken past such recognizable sights as the Jardin du Luxembourg but also asked to linger in shabby playgrounds and unfamiliar side streets. A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It seems a lot of people have wanted motels — be they shabby or chic — this year. Who Wants a Hotel With a Hallway Anyway? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Here, on the darkening floor of the shabby bazaar, Joyce's story becomes a requiem. Darkness in literature: James Joyce's Araby 2012-12-20T10:35:35Z If you keep a dish rack out all the time, make sure it’s not looking shabby. Five practical solutions for taming the mess around your kitchen sink 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “I think it’s pretty shabby to conceal these facts.” ‘Murder houses’: The haunting final chapter in true-crime stories 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Luckily I can kind of get by with my shabby writing. Henry Rollins calls U.S. men "the dumbest creatures" & Trump "wrongest possible" leader for pandemic 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Their shabby glamour is so appealing that she can overlook the fact that they reek from Dumpster diving and drive a sinister school bus that’s been painted black. Review: ‘The Girls’ Has a Great Start. Too Bad About the Rest. 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z At the vacation rental company HomeAway, missing or shabby sheets and towels are the most common complaints mentioned in customer satisfaction surveys about house amenities, says Karen Fuller, HomeAway’s senior director for global market research. There Are No Towels? The Renter’s Lament 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z We stopped at shabby record shops, clothing stores with few goods. Cultural Cuba: an arts tourist’s notebook 2014-02-06T00:49:23Z In 1972, they stumbled upon the Waterside Inn, a shabby old pub in Bray-on-Thames, west of London, which they turned into their flagship restaurant outside the capital. Albert Roux, famed chef and major influence on UK dining habits, dies at 85 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z What better place to watch the end of the world than the shabby Toronto Airport Camelot Hotel cocktail lounge? Player One by Douglas Coupland ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z When he rolls into Petrov’s compound, a shabby scattering of concrete bunkers, Frank makes note of the atmospherics. 'House of Cards' Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: Petrov and the Jordan Valley 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z “Locals don’t want to talk about being a World Heritage site anymore and they feel shortchanged. Our houses are shabby, we have the money, but we cannot fix them.” A World Heritage Designation Can Be a Blessing, or a Curse 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z But these days, Austin is more chic than shabby. 36 Hours in Austin, Tex. 2012-03-01T23:49:10Z They are spending what promises to be one very fraught summer together in their shabby family vacation home, by the docks, where the foghorns wail. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The authority needs to recoup the fortune it will spend on white paint to keep the place from instantly looking shabby. Santiago Calatrava’s Transit Hub Is a Soaring Symbol of a Boondoggle 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Still, he agrees to remodel and flip his mother’s shabby beach house, and thus earn Tanya’s hand in marriage. Review: Money-Hungry Women Scheme for a Better Life in ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Though the finalists last year weren’t exactly shabby, a bigger initial field could mean an even higher quality of competitors. Summoning Harmony on the Fly 2010-12-03T15:27:00Z A staff writer for The New Yorker, she continues to report from this territory, where political or romantic ideals battle it out with shabby realities, and her investigations are frequently sparked by fiction. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z To The Sound of Silence, the shabby Benjamin Braddock and stunning Elaine Robinson begin what to all intents and purposes seems to be a new life together. Clip joint: Driving away 2012-08-29T10:59:15Z Trump’s name was still on the casino, but he no longer ran the enterprise — and he’d sued to have his name removed from the building, claiming it was too shabby to be associated with him. The time Donald Trump’s empire took on a stubborn widow — and lost 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Or it could have something to do with my co-pilot: Kötting is wearing mirrored shades and a shabby, dark blue suit on top of a cardigan embroidered with swans. Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z CARDIFF, Wales — Lin-Manuel Miranda sat patiently in a shabby, capacious hot-air balloon, as a technician checked the lighting on a stuffed bird poised overhead. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z They worked, along with a pianist, in one of the Met’s hallowed, shabby rehearsal rooms, with a plastic tube channeling a ceiling leak into an old water-cooler keg. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z Finally, Gotti’s shabby aesthetic and narrative shortcomings are outweighed by its more drastically questionable moral ones. The eight most criminally awful things about John Travolta's Gotti 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In front of us an unremarkable Irishman, dressed in a shabby suit, begins to talk quietly. Faith Healer ? review 2011-02-04T21:30:01Z Then the scene changes, from the makeshift coziness of Maggie’s living room to the shabby sterility of a cheap motel room. Review: In ‘Lost Girls,’ Derailed Blue-Collar Lives, With Zingers 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z But I find that I can just about cope with Jenny Saville's work space, which is in a shabby office building in Oxford, owned by Pembroke College. Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies' 2012-06-09T20:46:38Z They say he is too peculiar, too shabby, too old. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Conversely, justice, such as it is, is carried out in shabbier spaces: victims unload decades of pain at chintzy coffee shops and in cramped living quarters. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The Cain and Abel thread of the show is set aside as “Off Brand,” as the episode is titled, swivels to guns, drugs and shabby manners. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 6: Brick by Brick 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Zhou wore a uniform from his stint interning at an American factory, to emphasize that however “shabby and filthy these clothes may be, I don’t abandon them, because they bear the marks of a worker.” They Wanted to Write the History of Modern China. But How? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z You know, Jane Austen was not a shabby writer. "I like weird things": Alicia Silverstone on her career, from "Clueless" to new film "Bad Therapy" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The 15-second transformation of Optimus from a shabby pickup truck to a super racer with flaming decal work is a wonder to watch. REVIEW: "Transformers: Age of Extinction" Is Bot-Sh*t Crazy 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z One glance at the home's interior – the shabby upholstery, the dusty flocked wallpaper – hints that the place probably smells like a combination of black mold and armpits. "What We Do In the Shadows" was a vampire comedy. Now it's a feel-good show about quarantine life 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Anything that isn’t wonderful seems less interesting than whatever I’m writing, and anything that’s wonderful makes whatever I’m writing seem hopelessly shabby by comparison, triggering impostor syndrome. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Sitting on the floor with paper cups of red wine, in the shabby West Village apartment of a tall, earnest Frenchman named Michel, who’d crossed the ocean to study with Cunningham. New York City’s Gift of Motion: A 1970s Tale 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The catalogs are terse, and the showrooms tend to look shabby, suggesting that bargains and scholarly discoveries lurk in the dusty corners. Antiques: New Auctioneers Take Over for Tepper; Long-Ago Spokesmodels 2012-01-19T22:49:43Z But the five-story 1890s brownstone had gone shabby in recent years, and the taps slowed to a trickle before the place closed nine months ago. Up Close: Meg Sharpe, Designer of the Lion and Bill’s 2012-11-07T21:18:16Z Lydia: Let it not be forgotten that “Ho Hey” cracked the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, not too shabby for a folky-country debut outing. 'Girls' Recap: In the Season Finale, Almost Everyone Leans In 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z |
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