Sentences with phrase «as shabby»

In this dual, fashion age where technology is as hot as shabby chic, we show you our top vintage looks throughout the home.

These are the underpinnings of the country - infused style known as shabby chic, a coinage brought into the contemporary vernacular by designer Rachel Ashwell.

Designers such as Shabby Chic (Regan Books, 1996) author and interior designer Rachel Ashwell and magazines such as Country Living have more recently incorporated the well - worn vintage tiles into a modern look, using originals to create mirrors and picture frames.

Torn jeans may be the ultimate in cool in New York, but they're looked upon as shabby in other countries and you may not be treated as well as you'd like when trying to get a table at a restaurant or check in at a hotel.

She decorated with what she described as shabby - chic antiques, including a purple armchair and a pink - painted brass bed.

Paris hotels are famous for charging luxury - hotel rates for tiny rooms best described as shabby - genteel.

It was always just as shabby and just as clean, and there was always the same smell of cleaning fluid, sometimes mixed with the smell of cabbage or beans, or fried food or boiling laundry.

The new «Star Wars» trilogy may showcase the very best that technology can achieve in cinema today — but H2G2 prefers a cheaper - looking (if not cheaper — costing) «Doctor Who» - like ambience, both because it matches Adams» vision of a universe every bit as shabby and makeshift as life on our own planet, and also because it means that the film comes with a nostalgia factor already built in.

Mind you we are to pop back up to 20 this weekend, which isn't too as shabby for this time of year

Kennedy's opinion is as shabby and question - begging as they say, and then some, but the real danger lies in its contemptible contempt for the millions of Americans who disagree with a «progressive» redefinition of marriage that severs its connection to childbearing, mothering, and fathering.

In short, constitutional discourse today appears both as a stately expression of reason and as the shabby antithesis of anything that could plausibly be called rational.

Not exact matches

When he first turned up to business meetings in the early 1990s he was known as the «lad in the cotton - wool coat» for the shabby worker's jacket he wore, two residents said.

Not too shabby, but if we were GS shareholders we'd certainly have a few questions about the deal — especially as it seems in hindsight that it was completely unnecessary.

They at least had the minimal decency to provide a group of controls (women to whom only misoprostol was given) but their experiment was otherwise every bit as ethically shabby as the Hausknecht fiasco.

Indulging in shabby polemic, they dismiss as «idiosyncratic private views of the universe» what is in fact the product of careful moral reasoning they have not bothered to understand.

The cross, as a Christian symbol, gets you right to the idea that a guy whose family was in the building trades in some colonial backwater left home to become an itinerant preacher, was put to death in a particularly shabby way, and turned out to be God Incarnate.

But it is so imposing because we have spent upon the outside all that is imposing in our natures — and what we find when we look within must necessarily be as it is, shabby and insufficient.

But It was real, more real than the shabby appearances that are so easy to mistake for reality, as real as new green leaves on a dying tree.

But the lure of missing Mass was not to be resisted, and I spent the next hour plotting the crime; I would simply prepare as usual, and behave in the usual surly manner, and insist shrilly on wearing the usual shabby clothing (the bellbottom jeans!

Not too shabby if you ask me, with only urad dal as the missing ingredient.

Santi's 2012 - 13 season wasn't too shabby with his name appearing on the team sheet as the left player in the 3.

He may have only registered one assist to go with his goal but that was largely the fault of his misfiring team mates as the Gunner created almost 50 chances throughout the tournament and his passing accuracy of over 90 percent was not too shabby either for a player trying to break down some very stubborn defences.

Anyway, if we do attack, our defenders better fight for their lives as ericksen, alli, son, Kane are an excellent attack and their defense is not too shabby either

High standards I guess as hazard, William and Pedro aren't too shabby!!

He is none too shabby defensively either as he has come on in leaps and bounds since Debuchy picked up that shoulder injury against Stoke City.

Joel Campbell, Alexis Sanchez and Lukas Podolski is certainly not too shabby looking a front line, while Rosicky and Wilshere alongside Diaby is a fairly strong looking midfield as well.

Make no mistake this game will be against arguably the best team in Europe right now, but the ball is round and it can roll over their net as we saw at the Emirates, besides our record at the Allianz is not too shabby.

In others words, the shabby shower from Riot Central have been able to field their very best players twice as often as we have.

Real Madrid's array of talent isn't too shabby either and should Jose Mourinho's club get into a spot of financial bother, the Spanish government will act immediately and bail them out because they're that important to Spanish culture it's almost as if they're a political institution.

Their record in Manchester is shabby, as have been some of their recent displays against the 19 - time champions of England, but the Gunners will care less about their underachieving past — this has been a week where they've had too defy the critics, sceptics and plenty of damning statistics in order to keep the haters off their back, and they're prepared to go through the motions all over again on Sunday, when they'll be targeting their first league win over United in Manchester since 2006.

As a result, the parks are shabby, inadequately maintained and fast eroding.

The adventures of a somewhat shabby but beloved teddy bear who needs to find a home as well as a shiny button for his overalls.

In the meantime, according to the people we meet (as we're walking down the street...), my baby girl looks «like a little doll» and «just precious» in her dress from Shabby Baby.

Whereas in the 90s shabby Islington was seen as smartening up, today it is iconic of London's absurd property prices and growing wealth disparity.

A damning report by MPs condemning the BBC's «cavalier use of public money» has been dismissed as «shabby» by Lord Patten.

Cities such as Birmingham and Edinburgh have prohibited all election posters for being shabby and not environmentally friendly.

Speaking to Republican party loyalists at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Liz Cheney in a manner that was not only very predictable but also as one imagines Netanyahu would have scripted her — attacked the president of her own country for what she called his «shabby» and «disgraceful» treatment of Israel.

All this has the makings of a shabby deal: Brown quits, Labour cobble together an interim new leader and a deal is done with Clegg with a referendum on various forms of proportional representation as the price.

As on most campuses, the number of minority and female professors is substantially worse than bleak — in fact, I think it is abysmally shabby.

That's about three times as fast as an average modern sailboat, not too shabby for a craft carved with stone and copper tools.

Labour condemned the demand as «shabby».

On Saturday, biologists will present research at the Society for Experimental Biology annual conference in Glasgow showing that as spiders age, they build shabbier, less perfect webs than they did in their youth.

Not too shabby as I was pronounced type 2 diabetic a year ago.

I often use my Shabby Chic duvet covers as tablecloths, turning a pricey item into a something with more than one use and justifying the cost.

I have so many clients who adore the shabby chic decor aesthetic as do I.

Diamonds are, of course, the hardest substance on Earth, but cubic zirconia isn't too shabby, either (an 8 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, as compared with diamond's 10).

I like the fb pages of ModlyChic, eShakti, Shabby Apple and Mimi Boutique as Becca Okaneko Becca recently posted..

As I have shared in my home tours, I actually keep a shabby - cottage style distressed white wooden treble clef on my door year round.

As you can see around my home and my blog, I'm in love with all things French, so I've created a special board on Pinterest called Frenchified ♥, for beautiful French things with Shabby Chic, Cottage and Vintage touches.

First, the old shabby velvet was stripped from the seat pads and replaced with Gentleman fabric from the Annie Sloan range — it's perfect for the Modern Retro look and, as a natural cotton fabric, it's simple to dye using Chalk Paint ®.