Sentences with phrase «of ramshackle»

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).

Tired of your ramshackle apartment, dull existence and boring jobs, you're accepted into the exclusive organisation, so you can pry into the privacy of the «caged monkeys» as they go about their lives...

This laid - back Caribbean getaway is getting plenty of buzz these days thanks to its balance of ramshackle charm — you won't find any five star chain hotels here — and traditional tourism draws like palm lined beaches, exotic wildlife, and azure waters.

Mahagiri Resort represents the changing face of Nusa Lembongan — sadly, no longer is it the domain of ramshackle beach huts.

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).

But only after shouting at me from the window of their ramshackle farmhouse.

Another aspect of my experiences growing up that you'll see reflected in the book is the sharp dichotomy between the haves and haves - not - the town that's booming with development while just on the other side of the forest there's a village that is crushingly poor; or the skyscrapers going up in full view of ramshackle houses.

With beautifully framed shots keeping our interest for nearly two hours, Baker showcases the dichotomy of ramshackle inns littering a town lined with off - brand Mickey merchants and discount stores.

The new movie from Mike Mills (Beginners) chronicles the lives of a ramshackle sort of family.

So I'll try to be as measured as I can when I say that I haven't seen a more thrillingly alive movie at Cannes this year than «The Florida Project,» the latest tour de force of ramshackle realism from writer - director Sean Baker.

Their house sits among a cluster of ramshackle buildings at the end of a dirt track.

Kapp is the chief mover in the condominium conversion of a 41 - unit courtyard apartment building at 2108 - 18 W. North Ave. and the rehab of the ramshackle four - story Elm Park Hotel right on Wicker Park itself.

Two world wars and an economic crash come and go, as international football carves out its place, without quite ridding itself of its ramshackle, amateurish air.

These nutty bets are a prelude to what's next on the agenda: a serious poker game that's to take place around the corner in the backroom of a ramshackle bar called the Bulldog Saloon & Grill.

Zweig must be understood in light of the ramshackle political construct of the Austro - Hungarian Empire, the titular «lost world.»

After traveling around Europe, overseeing the restoration of a ramshackle 19th - century country house in Burgundy, and simply enjoying life for a while, she began freelancing for various magazines and websites, including International Living, Forbes.com, Bankrate.com, and many others.

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

In the summer of 1983 Foster's leveraged net worth paid for 500,000 square feet of medieval - looking foundries, 200,000 square feet of ramshackle storage warehouses, a couple dozen creaky overhead cranes, four two - story electric furnaces, and countless other pieces of aging appurtenances.

Not exact matches

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.

Only the reader knows of the more powerful and slow - moving forces of state and capital that render these ramshackle beliefs powerless in the scheme of things.

This narrative of progress takes us to the present day, in which Madden describes the rapid expansion of the city, from the ramshackle gecekondu villages to the ambitious construction projects of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

He says this matter - of - factly as you begin walking through a scrubby field to an old white farm house, ramshackled and sagging, in need of paint, but generously proportioned and graced with a wraparound veranda.

A ramshackle, graffiti - covered warehouse in the rough Fruitvale area, «The Ghost Ship» was home to a colorful collection of artists who had built a unique creative community, working and (illegally) living in the space while trying to escape the outrageous rents of the surrounding area.

She then bustled me off to her ramshackle ambulance with three sisters, insisting I drive them into the streets of Calcutta to look for dying people.

In Bangkok, a city with gleaming postmodern kitchens and good ol' greasy spoons alike, one of my favorite food secrets isn't a restaurant at all, but a ramshackle shophouse selling nothing but curry pastes.

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.

We were supposed to be touring the city but instead we went almost directly to a ramshackle part of town, where earlier the camera crew had spotted some kids playing table tennis on a rickety old table that was set outside in the rain in a grimy dirt plaza that was beginning to turn slippery.

Manufacturers of two - piece billiard cues,» reads a sign on the wall of Isidore Rutzisky's little store at 198 Bowery on New York's ramshackle Lower East Side.

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.

Also remarkable was the House that Hulman Built, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which, when he bought it in 1945, was a ramshackle ruin after four years of wartime disuse.

Of course, money plays a big part and Chelsea's squad strength bears no relation to our ramshackle collection once you get past a competent dozen or so.

Mothers living in the ramshackle neighbourhoods of Metro Manila spoke of spending three - quarters of their income on formula milk, often forgoing food themselves.

Just in time for Mother's Day: Jordan is giving away a set of her books (Ramshackle Glam and Carrying On) to one Gugu Guru reader — autographed just for you!

Our convoy had settled for a few days in al - Ghayda, the ramshackle capital of Mahra governorate in east Yemen, and word of our presence was spreading fast.

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.

This was good enough for Plato, the 800 - pound gorilla of ancient Greek intellectual life, to include Beauty as one of his famous forms: those transcendent, invisible archetypes of which this reality is nothing but a set of blurry ramshackle imitations.

Their glossy bulk looks out of place as they squeeze between the electricity poles and cramped bars, ramshackle wooden offices and tiny shops that line the street.

When Steven Goodbred, an Earth and environmental researcher at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, came across this site during a field trip in 2011, he and his students were shocked to find the land still badly flooded and thousands of families living in tents and ramshackle huts.

Sitting in his tiny office in a ramshackle field station at Bard, on the banks of the Hudson River, Kiviat says, «Twenty years ago the public thought raptors were bad and songbirds were good.

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.

Perhaps 10 years ago, the scenario had been what i imagined, with men swooping in, and women keen to swap the hard grind of poverty - stricken ukraine for a new life in the us, even if it was a ramshackle house in a north dakotan town or a sleepy midwestern farm, rather than a manhattan penthouse or la beachfront home.

State of Decay 2 is brainless, ramshackle fun.

First we have the hapless and ramshackle hunters of the stone age with their clubs and leopard - spotted wrestler's trunks, a group who are happy enough in their hunting ground of the «Valley» (wait — is it actually set in London SE7?)

Its absurdist scenarios serve as little more than a ramshackle frame for bizarre non sequiturs, stoned pop - culture riffing, and some of the weirdest gags ever to make it into a studio - released film.

When her latest boyfriend Warren (Troy Skog) is shipped off to jail for cultivating marijuana and their house becomes an off - limits crime scene, Joleen uproots with her daughter Tera (Anna Sophia - Robb) to the ramshackle apartment of her younger brother, James (Nick Stahl).

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.

In the same way we can instantly recall the cinematic language and precision staging of a Quentin Tarantino film, the ramshackle, improv,...

Once in the City of Light, the depressed Martin attempts suicide and later accepts an offer to stay with his half - brother Benjamin (Mathieu Amalric) and his roommate Alice, a violinist, in their ramshackle garret.

Whether intentional or not, the entire look of Order is dark and ramshackle: I wondered why the glorious red Hogwarts Express was now deposited in the middle of a dusty, dirty inlet of the forest instead of a proper station.