Sentences with phrase «on ramshackle»

Held on a ramshackle wharf called Crosby's Dock, there was a vat of vodka and mint infused punch, endless cans of beer -LSB-...]

Then, at 45, she settled at the suggestion of her then dealer, Betty Parsons, in a studio community established in abandoned shipping lofts on the ramshackle waterfront of lower Manhattan.

When she's not bouncing around the world on ramshackle buses, overcrowded trains, or on the back of a rickshaw, you can find her based in Sydney or the Gold Coast, Australia eagerly planning her next adventure.

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.

Even inspired regional filmmakers like David Gordon Green (George Washington), Matthew Porterfield (Putty Hill), and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) have tended to focus on the ramshackle poor, searching for folklore.

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Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

It means Van Gaal could be forced to field a ramshackle defence, as Marcos Rojo dislocated his shoulder nearly a fortnight ago, while Phil Jones and Jonny Evans could play on Saturday but are coming back from respective injuries.

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

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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.

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.

He squatted in a ramshackle old house next door to our own that was also on the property.

I thought about it even more during Black Panther, his globe - trotting Marvel superhero extravaganza that nonetheless begins and ends with sad, streetwise children talking smack on an Oakland housing project's ramshackle basketball court.

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.

With a ramshackle plot that appears to have been cooked up after drawing deep on the Dude's biggest bong, the film pinballs between awol movie stars, red - scare nightmares and Bikini Atoll bomb tests, while raising important questions of whether God is still angry («what, he got over it?»)

Though it tries too hard to evoke the journey aspect of the Lord of the Rings DVDs» appendices, failing to earn the emotional tenor of a conclusion in which the ramshackle postproduction facility is dismantled and crewmembers speak of starting families in the time it took to complete the film, it's a piece blessedly light on promotional affectations.

Somehow meatier and more ramshackle than its counterpart, the film follows Eleanor as she makes an apparent suicide attempt, walks out on her husband, decamps to her family home, and begins taking college courses while she figures out next steps.

Excellent performances bolster this ramshackle tale of a champion boxer trying to make good with his life following the loss of the one thing that always managed to keep him on track, his beloved wife, both orphans who met in foster care as they grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen.

The inherited property comprises a ramshackle house and a vast tract of land on which nothing has ever been grown — the function of the land, for the grandfather, was simply to protect the business from prying eyes.

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.

Director Gilroy establishes a ramshackle, stressed - out Los Angeles, full of noise and clutter and homeless people on sidewalks.

Bite off the job of changing the world and this is where you find yourself: driving on a desolate Oklahoma road, past chicken farms and trailers, turning onto a muddy lane, and stopping in the ruts outside a ramshackle old house where a lazy black dog watches over the littered yard.

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.

On a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street... I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful pasOn a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street... I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful pason the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past.

For so many years, from the last days of the era of the powerful prime ministers and the European Union, up through the Great Reclamation and the Property Revolts and the slow rise of the various suicide cults of the 2020s, and on through the Second Restoration to the new king in 2028, the ramshackle Cuthbert had somehow survived.

After a toaster falls from an attic in the ramshackle Victorian house that 14 - year - old Nick has moved into and hits him on the head, the teen disposes of most of the things in the attic at a garage sale.

Veblen is just fine on her own, living in a ramshackle house in Palo Alto and translating from the Norwegian in her spare time.

Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the polygamous practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity.

On the third day, I took Harriet, our six - year - old daughter, to my father's temporary office — a ramshackle building on stilts a few miles north, along the shore of a swampy, sulphurous asphalt lakOn the third day, I took Harriet, our six - year - old daughter, to my father's temporary office — a ramshackle building on stilts a few miles north, along the shore of a swampy, sulphurous asphalt lakon stilts a few miles north, along the shore of a swampy, sulphurous asphalt lake.

But, on arrival at their ramshackle commune, he learns that neither death has been reported — not surprising, when it emerges that the body of the first victim was found lying on top of their crushed and illicit cannabis plants and has already been buried for some time.

Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash - filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin.

So the following morning we arose early and jumped on a truck headed for the starting point of the trek, a ramshackle village clinging to the edge of the desert.

One place you can't miss is the Pelican Bar, a quirky, ramshackle watering hole built on a sandbar in the middle of the sea, where you can order a Red Stripe and fish that's caught and cooked on - site.

Where to Stop: Ramshackle Copper Center for sourdough pancakes; Columbia Glacier to watch icebergs calve and sea lions frolic; Cordova, a remote fishing village on the Orca Inlet.

Aside from those countless ramshackle food stalls selling spicy treats around the clock, Bangkok is full of restaurants offering the best cuisine from every region on the map.

Needless to say, when hard - partying twenty - something Jason Brody, his two brothers and their gang of friends go on a vacation to this island hideaway, none of them anticipated what would happen after a skydiving mishap sends the group of trust fund kids into the heart of a pirate infested nightmare masquerading under the sleepy beaches and idyllic ramshackle villages of Rook Island.

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.

Also, go on a guided tour up Richard Prince's driveway, past a parked 1973 Dodge Barracuda, where you'll get a close peek at his anti-monument of countercultural ephemera — a partially renovated, partially ramshackle house - work «painstakingly crafted to be almost impossible to find.»

Another stage played as a ramshackle take on a Sol LeWitt wall drawing: on a wood plank marked with squiggly etchings on the wall, course - goers had to lean over and trace the shape of the lines while maintaining close proximity and without letting their pencils leave the surface for any reason.

Trained as an oil painter at York University in Toronto (BFA) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), he is currently working on a suite of gouache paintings called «The Most Beautiful Things in the World» in which he depicts images of beautifully ramshackle instruments of authority.

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).

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.

Here she created a ramshackle cabin in the Lake District, where her fictional granddad supposedly lived and crammed it with objects, artifacts and junks, which she then captured all on film.