Sentences with word «seediness»

He then launched into a series of withering questions to highlight what he indicated was the inherent narrowness and seediness of such a situation.

A genre long associated with seediness and perversion, film noir receives a surprisingly clean and feminine reworking in Roder's beautiful debut (the color palette and exotic imagery are reason enough to check this one out).

Burdened by its Oz - like yellow brick and gewgaws and its redolently old - fashioned name, so suggestive of salvation and temperance and lye soap, the former Young Men's Christian Association (the words were carved with embarrassing permanence above the lintel) was bent now on rescuing itself from the downtown seediness in which it had joined so many of its counterparts in more significant...

The actors do well, with Brosnan playing a kind of James Bond who has fallen into seediness and shady dealings.

But no: as soon as those credits wrap up, it's straight on to the postcard views of the Strip and the seatbelt ride through fake seediness.

Director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) develops a genre - appropriate seediness among the carnies, as well as an unwholesome atmosphere.

As a result, Inherent Vice loses its personality and becomes a plodding travelogue of period seediness and archetypal character.

Each segment establishes its own vibe: the first is dim and claustrophobic, the second is naturalistic with one stark science fiction set piece, and the third ties in with «Black Museum's» frame story, which is shot with a grind house seediness.

When translated into film, however, Barker's work (including that which the author has shepherded to celluloid himself) takes on a certain seediness that undermines the essential elegance of the writing.

Filmed in sumptuous colors by cinematographer Larry Smith, a Kubrick disciple who also shot Eyes Wide Shut, the movie makes creative use of its foreign setting — the glittering elegance of upscale restaurants, the neon - lit seediness and grime of brothels and alleyways, the smooth surfaces and clean lines of a five - star hotel.

For all the glitz and seediness offered by Ivan's world, the movie fails to make it seem tempting let alone attractive.

Jake Gyllenhaal did similarly twitchy work in Nightcrawler, but there his efforts were given a near - surreal context, as the character's sociopathy seemed a natural extension of L.A.'s tabloid seediness, captured brilliantly in Robert Elswit's luxuriantly scuzzy nighttime photography.

Jessica Silverman Gallery's location in the Tenderloin district, an area known for its resistance of gentrification and general seediness, provides a compelling backdrop for Hugh Scott - Douglas's «Promises to Pay in Solid Substance,» open through November 1... read more

Lenaghan, who paints from life, has focused on the neighborhood of the Gowanus Canal as his main subject, evoking both the expected seediness as well as a lyrical quality inherent to the urban scene.

It leaves its «seediness» behind in the process.

Who of woman can create an egg worthy of supplanting a Life without man's «seediness»?

Just not sure I like the seediness and grit of the raspberries.

Alma is situated in an area undergoing a cultural and culinary renaissance, but there are still pockets of seediness, like the bubble gum — stained block on which Alma's modern, wood - paneled facade stands out.

At some point as a collector, I think you come to accept the downsides of the hobby — the seediness, the fact that you will come up empty for your efforts from time to time and that famous people and casual fans alike will sometimes assume the worst of you.

Dismayed by the seediness of boxing gyms, Angelo went out and bought an old, decrepit fire station in Cranston for $ 16,000, remodeled it himself and named it Father & Son's Gym.

Neither does it take care of the picnic area of the Grant Park bandshell, and a stroll through Lincoln Park in the neighborhood of North Avenue will attest to the seediness of the Chicago parks.

The teens lose their innocence when they become involved in the corruption and seediness that exists about their town after its leading citizen, the town judge and the town sheriff begin working on the latter's re-election campaign.

On cable, Vera Farmiga's unhinged Norma Bates may be the draw to «Bates Motel,» but it's the nicely cast actors around her (Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell) who provide a context that straddles the line between earnestness and seediness, one in which her behavior almost approaches normality.

After waxing snidely on the seediness and the ruthlessness of the music industry, the A&R manager finds their debut album in his colleague / rival / ostensible friend Waters» (James Corden) CD collection and condescendingly asks why the fuck he'd still have it.

Its chief selling point is its seediness — the unshaven,»70s - porn quality of its direction — and perhaps even the nostalgia elicited by its extraordinarily wrong poster art, which haunted my early adolescence as I pretended not to fixate on the VHS box as I browsed more acceptable titles the next shelf over.

Mirroring this is the brilliant way Las Vegas is presented — a slight veneer of class, but a suggestion of seediness and amorality settled comfortably as an undercurrent while the story grows and builds.

On the one hand: social tragedy, religious despair, wasted humanity, a primal wail, seediness and grime.

So goes Filth, the film's title taken from the Irvine Welsh novel that forms its basis, and indicative of the seediness and unseemliness that lurks within its midst.

The film takes all the tropes of the classic gangster movie and, whilst never skimping on the violence or seediness, presents something slicker, more complicated.

Hotel Artemide — A very well liked hotel, seven or eight minute walk from the train station, closer to the attractions and further from the seediness of the train station.

But reconsider: just streets away from the seediness are residential pockets that are among Sydney's most enchanting.

The seediness quotient in Bangla road is quite in your face, with signs of prostitution quite in the open.

Out on the street leading to the Reggae Pub from Chaweng Centre you'll find bar after small bar lining the passage with the usual cast of friendly girls, not very original music, a pool table here and there and a general air of seediness.

That seediness might be hard to detect on the surface of many video games, but replace the roulette table with a Candy Crush wheel and the similarities become clearer.