He then launched into a series of withering questions to highlight what he indicated was the inherent narrowness and seediness of such a situation. (observer.com)
A genre long associated with seediness and perversion, film noir receives a surprisingly clean and feminine reworking in Roder's beautiful debut (the color palette and exotic imagery are reason enough to check this one out). (highsnobiety.com)
Burdened by its Oz - like yellow brick and gewgaws and its redolently old - fashioned name, so suggestive of salvation and temperance and lye soap, the former Young Men's Christian Association (the words were carved with embarrassing permanence above the lintel) was bent now on rescuing itself from the downtown seediness in which it had joined so many of its counterparts in more significant... (bookbrowse.com)