Sentences with phrase «by ramshackle»

He's also returning to music with his forthcoming second album, Mind Trap, which is preceded by the ramshackle indie pop of the first single, You Return.

In reality, they have a bunch of mercenaries who are not gelling together well and are backed up by a ramshackle defence who are prone to errors due to the constant fear of being dropped for sneezing at the wrong moment.

Spanish - speaking pedestrians are milling about, surrounded by ramshackle buildings.

Not exact matches

Entire city blocks of ramshackle open - front shops are being replaced by high - rise apartments, office buildings, and shopping centers.

Set in a ramshackle, hilly village run by a group of white - hatted snobs more devoted to cheese - tasting than serving the community, «The Boxtrolls» is a 3D romp about the collision between the village and the subterranean - dwelling Boxtrolls, who scavenge for trash but have been targeted for extermination by a nefarious baddie named Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley).

I've played several of them, and am always blown away by the numbers that appear on the screen: «Cash Show» consistently draws more than 100,000 players and gives away a total of $ 20,000 a day on weekends ($ 9,000 on weekdays); «The Q,» a hilariously ramshackle app out of Charleston, South Carolina, gets approximately 10,000 players going for as little as $ 100 per quiz; «Quiz Biz,» on the popular live - streaming app Live.me, gives away up to $ 50,000 — a pop — to tens of thousands of players.

It's been a weekend dominated by shocks, however, after League Two side Cambridge United kicked things off on Friday evening by holding Manchester United to a shock 0 - 0 draw in the ramshackle surrounds of their Abbey stadium.

According to city records, that building — a ramshackle, two - story building with missing second - floor windows — is owned by Charles Robinson, the brother of 5th Ward council candidate Mark Robinson.

Captivated by the idea of backyard self - sufficiency, Novella Carpenter transforms an abandoned lot next to her ramshackle house in inner - city Oakland into a wonderful urban farm.

He winds up at a ramshackle stable managed by a man (Steve Buscemi) whose avuncular qualities barely mask a dark side.

The story of a group of retired British tourists living in a ramshackle hotel in India, portrayed by legends Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Tom Wilkinson, grossed more than $ 46 million in the United States.

She lives in a ramshackle motel managed by a predatory creep (Keanu Reeves).

His brother Ariki (a superb Wayne Hapi), stern - eyed and skeptical that his troubled sibling can right himself, reluctantly takes Gen to his ramshackle home, a gang hub, where Ariki's son, Mana (James Rolleston), is intrigued by his uncle's kindness and passion for chess but fearful of disobeying his dad's authority.

Melissa McCarthy joins that class list in the ramshackle, amiable «Life of the Party,» about a woman, freshly dumped by her husband, heading back to college 20 years after she dropped out with a kid on the way.

What matters most is one's predilection for movies that straddle the line between documentary and fiction, creating a ramshackle narrative inspired by real, everyday events.

by Walter Chaw Surprisingly, perhaps shockingly, Robots isn't terrible, even though it's a product of the same chowderheads behind Ice Age and even though it's your basic ramshackle kid's flick / self - esteem trope (complete with closing musical number) upon which the Shrek franchise has founded a scatological empire.

Cooper and co-writer Brad Ingelsby introduce us in startling fashion at the start of the picture to Harlan DeGroat, the tatted and depraved meth dealer who rules the region from his ramshackle, mountaintop hideout, and who will become the target of Russell's ire by the end.

It's a nifty set - up for a spam - in - a-cabin scenario, and indeed, Mark discovers a ramshackle farmhouse where he and Sarah decide to spend the night — especially once they're attacked by some unseen thing apparently repulsed by light of any kind.

In the meantime, Lady Bird's enduring the more pressing challenges of amateur high school plays and ramshackle romances, pivoting between ill - advised romances with the good - natured Danny (Lucas Hedges) and chic rocker Kyle (Timothée Chalamet, a world apart from the gay teen in «Call Me By Your Name»).

I think that for a lot of people, what sticks in their minds about Call Me by Your Name is the sensuousness with which it is shot and its almost fantasy - like setting in a ramshackle villa in Italy — essentially, the beauty and emotion of the film.

They live in a ramshackle mansion in Santa Barbara, California, joined by tenants Abbie, a 24 - year - old freelance photographer played by a pitch - perfect Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha), and William, a 40 - something handyman doing renovations on the place, played by an appealing Billy Crudup (Jackie), both of whom help give the place a friendly community vibe.

Bill Paxton (who also directs) stars as a widowed country dad awakened one night by an angel — or a bright light shining off the angel on top of a trophy on his ramshackle bedroom bookcase.

Co-written by star Melissa McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone (who also directed), this Back to School knockoff is a dull and ramshackle mess.

It surprised me by being extremely capable and confident doing things far outside its comfort zone, like charging down Baja's ramshackle desert roads.

The British sports car brand has recently been bought by Chinese giant Geely, and the collection of modern, glass - and - silver - clad buildings is a far cry from the ramshackle setup of» 66.

A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence — a city that always surprises — Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.

Keen readers will probably be more excited by the improved hyphenation and justification, which looks less ramshackle around the edges at all but the largest font sizes, while ligatures and kerning have been refined, too.

After five days we finally float into the ramshackle outskirts of Juba to be greeted by hordes of waving children and an unbelieving national press.

Taguig is a maze of ramshackle markets, makeshift eateries and tiny sari - sari stores, where men in string vests and baseball caps reach between rusting iron bars to make micro-purchases of Nescafe sachets and rough local cigarettes (sold singly, rarely by the packet).

In the end, the generally impoverished look of Belize City, created primarily by the tiny ramshackle houses in the neighborhoods, is partly a misleading one.

After taking their first steps onto the New World, the pair soon arrives in the town of Astera, a ramshackle but homey locale erected by residents of the Old World that have come to spearhead the exploration of the New World.

This makes for some luscious outside environments teaming with wildlife offset by the harsh ramshackle shanty towns that make up the majority of the human cities.

A woman returns to her ancestral home and by exploring every ramshackle room, players of this sumptuous and melancholy adventure unlock the story of her cursed family.

If we define Dead Island by how ramshackle it is, then I suppose the title is fairly honest.

TWO statements by the artist Donald Judd turned out to be remarkably prescient about the ramshackle - beautiful cast - iron building on Spring Street he bought in 1968 for use as his home and studio.

Ramshackle Kaleidoscope, curated by Jordana Zeldin, is a bite - sized summer exhibition that explores a wing of New Casualism.

This was part of the flea market he had curated for Gavin Brown's Enterprise gallery, which turned a corner of the fair into ramshackle stalls manned by artists peddling flea - inspired multiples.

It seems there's no place for them in this somewhat ramshackle narrative that feels as if it's been put together by rummaging through the store cupboard — not the best way to write history.

She also makes feature films and funny, ramshackle installations, often interrupted by sudden alerts and injunctions to the audience.

Romeo Every visit to this space, opened by the artist Aurel Schmidt on the top floor of a ramshackle Lower East Side building, offered a new pleasure: action - packed group portraits on paper by Joseph Geagan, a madcap two - person stunner from Will Sheldon and Gobby, and febrile group shows (including a sculpture display now on the buildings precarious - looking roof).

In this work, a ramshackle tarp tent is erected in the gallery space, accompanied by a Radio Flyer wagon full of books, with more piled around the tent.

A generous hint of his direction could be seen in the 2012 Biennial (then hailed by New York Times critic Roberta Smith as «one of the best Whitney Biennials in recent memory»), which included such unforgettable moments as Werner Herzog's presentation of drawings by Hercules Segers intermixed with filmed performances by the Dutch avant - garde cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger; Dawn Kasper's performative residency in a ramshackle studio of her own creation on the museum's third floor; and the transformation of the entire fourth floor into a long stage for dance, most memorably Michelson's highly concentrated, multipart «Devotion Study # 1 — The American Dancer.»

He lived by seasonal fishing alone in ramshackle shelters that he might build himself on the hurricane - menaced East Texas coast.

Nine ramshackle structures have been rigged by a team of musicians, artists, and inventors to create a musical shantytown.

The winner was the JellyFish Theatre, a ramshackle, temporary theatre built out of wood pallets last summer for the 2010 London Festival of Architecture by a team of 80 volunteers using only found materials.

It looks ramshackle, but it's a fairy land carefully curated and created by Finnish designers, working with the Finnish Institute.

I've played several of them, and am always blown away by the numbers that appear on the screen: «Cash Show» consistently draws more than 100,000 players and gives away a total of $ 20,000 a day on weekends ($ 9,000 on weekdays); «The Q,» a hilariously ramshackle app out of Charleston, South Carolina, gets approximately 10,000 players going for as little as $ 100 per quiz; «Quiz Biz,» on the popular live - streaming app Live.me, gives away up to $ 50,000 — a pop — to tens of thousands of players.