Sentences with word «ramshackle»

The dogs were being housed in ramshackle kennels.

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

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.

It may look like a run - down old ramshackle building, but White Water Tavern is actually a fun spot to run down Little Rock's locals and get a date.

Check out our baby registry picks over on Ramshackle Glam, and Jordan's Mompreneur Spotlight, too.

For the bloated, slightly ramshackle older Geoff, it is goofy sweetness personified.

Far too many people squeezed into ramshackle apartments where, despite the forced proximity, nobody ever really manages to see anyone else clearly.

Crowded into ramshackle apartments or abandoned buildings, these families face hopelessness everyday.

Yes, there are some areas with ramshackle housing and slow - moving canals, but Belize City also has stately colonial - era homes, lively shopping districts, beachfront amusement parks, and a flotilla of graceful sailboats.

This week's Mompreneur Feature is: Jordan Reid from Ramshackle Glam — a lifestyle blogger and book author, Jordan covers all topics from parenting to travel to style.

Like Jordan Reid, author of Ramshackle Glam and mom to two little ones, says, «Take it down a notch or 20.

At the centre of the film are young Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) and his mother, Dorothea (Annette Bening), who had him late in life and has brought him up by herself while running a little community in a sprawling old ramshackle mansion she's let out to Abbie and William.

For its part, Wolverine is neither as resonant as the first two X-Men movies nor as ramshackle as the third.

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.

Further afield — just under a three - hour drive — is the charmingly ramshackle town of Port Antonio, which is well worth a visit (be sure to check out the excellent market).

A cluster of ramshackle cabins built for the Hetch Hetchy dam workers in 1920, it is now a woodsy - chic cottage resort with a tavern, restaurant, and saltwater swimming pool.

There Will Be Blood affirmed Anderson's radicalism; The Master went weirder with its close - coiled cult dissections; and Inherent Vice loosened the coils for ramshackle private dick - ery.

And though she needed to get up and relieve herself she was afraid to move, as if even the slightest perturbation would upset the balance and bring the whole ramshackle structure crashing down around her.

Roads turned to mud, settlements into ramshackle villages.

Only six square blocks, Quepos is comprised of local eateries, tourism - related businesses, a few ramshackle hotels, and the Marina Pez Vela, a sportfishing attraction bringing people from all over the globe here.

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.

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.

And when the malfunctioning, ramshackle group retreats to a cabin in the woods in Ireland to record a new album, their adventure begins.

This couple dreamed of a perfect little ramshackle cottage in need of TLC, but once they started looking, the reverie came to an abrupt halt.

I recorded Zollner's words in a sound chamber in the technical swing of Criterion's crowded, ramshackle offices.

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

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.

I would look at a dilapidated, ramshackle cottage and have to catch my breath before I could say, â $ œIsn't it beautiful?â $ and my mother would look at me like I had two heads.

But there are so many wincers for so ramshackle a plot.

Gordon Matta Clark has a certain cult appeal among architecture and conceptual art fans alike, perhaps fueled by his haunting, ephemeral works of the 1960s and»70s in which he pounded holes and sawed huge fissures through ramshackle historic buildings slated for demolition in areas grappling with mid-century modernization — New York, New Jersey, and Chicago among them.

From the book jacket: Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia.

Its violently vandalized remains were discovered on August 1, carelessly strewn on the ground like the pile of ramshackle robot parts it was.

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.

Superbad is a funny, boozy, ramshackle party, but it's more likely to leave audiences with a tingly afterglow than a pounding hangover.

Elliot had been working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, N.Y., but moved to the Catskills to bail out his parents» ramshackle motel.

I created Ramshackle Glam to follow my experiments in the spheres of fashion, beauty, entertaining, and home décor.

One of the most striking things an American will notice on India's highways is how almost all their cargo seems to be transported by these lavishly decorated and slightly ramshackle large trucks.

Good kayaking is available though canals snaking through the mangroves, past ramshackle fishermen's houses and into the shallow bay.

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

Imagine the early days of a now - major city in America's west, when only a few ramshackle buildings stood along a dusty street.

Geoffrey Lean, «Britain's longest - serving environmental correspondent,» said the report showed the IPCC to be an «amateurish, ramshackle operation.»

One startling sketch shows cottages and farmyards running the length of the Edgware Road, while another shows pretty ramshackle riverside cottages where Tate Britain now stands.

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

Also a pleasure are a group of luxuriously ramshackle constructions by Richard Tuttle from the 1980s and early 1960s paintings by Jim Dine that ooze paint and earthy charm.

Those who manage to trudge through the muck will find a remarkable, if ramshackle experience that ticks their every checkbox for a great zombie game, save the unwritten one marked «stability.»