Sentences with phrase «airless room»

I imagine them around a fabled table, in suits, no doubt, pulling the chairs in tight and tighter, until they are the only ones left there, crowded around a tiny table in an airless room that feels small and smaller.

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On a recent morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center, sitting in a plastic chair in an airless, glassed - in booth in what resembled a large hospital waiting room — minus the televisions, the pastel watercolor paintings, the magazines and the windows — Mr. Espada seemed shorn of the grandiloquence that those in Albany had come to know so well over the two decades of his singularly unruly political career.

It's a plodding, plonking, clonking, clanking vanity project, watching which is like drowning in suet or being alone for two hours in the kind of airless hotel room that Hughes reputedly holed up in.

One enters a blank and airless lobby in which a letter is mounted on the wall with the grandeur of a museum text: `... something's happened to my work, the prints have all gotten infected, sculptures, everything, even the room.