Sentences with phrase «ramshackle apartments»

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

Maurice Glasman still seems surprised as he sits in his cosy, ramshackle apartment perched above a clothes store in bohemian north London.

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).

One - time dreamboat movie star and lover of Visconti, Helmut Berger, now seventy - one and sometimes looking like Marguerite Duras, rants and raves in his ramshackle apartment while the maid dishes the dirt about his sad life.»

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 early work could reflect the sympathy Picasso felt for those who shared the transient lifestyle he had experienced in Paris before settling in a ramshackle apartment in Montemarte in 1904, a year before this was painted.

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

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.

But soon after establishing himself in San Francisco - where he alternates between a shoddy garage apartment and the absurdly ramshackle ESL school where he teaches - Aaron sees that real freedom will not come until he has made peace with his memories of Morton, Minnesota: a cramped town whose four hundred souls form a constellation of Aaron's childhood heartbreaks and hopes.

Amid the heat, the dust, the squalor, the traffic, the ramshackle dwellings in the City of the Dead, and the row on row of «permanently» partially completed apartments (they pay tax once the building is finished, so they never finish them,), and of course, «bad dates» (beware the pharaoh's revenge), a few days in Cairo only reinforces my view that you have to leave Canada to appreciate it.