Instead, the merger created unhappy unions, shabbier service and mounting losses.
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In the summer of 2017, the family moved to a shabbier house.
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Her door looked shabbier in the daylight and in my state of mind.
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I was also aware of how much shabbier my own lifestyle was by comparison.
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The properties that remain can become shabbier as owners stop keeping up with maintenance.
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Everything in the apartment (including the bathroom) seemed smaller and shabbier in the morning light.
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But it was not a vote for a poorer country, higher unemployment or shabbier public services.
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Saratoga's much shabbier sister racetrack, Aqueduct, is struggling, however, as are many regional tracks around the country.
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In boom times, empty lots are more likely to be filled, and smaller, shabbier buildings bought and replaced.
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Glittering from afar, the structure looks shabbier and less solid up close, and is sorely in need of renovation.
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I loved the shirt and I wore it a lot, so it got a little shabbier with each wash.
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Tahmima Anam Dhaka, Bangladesh — EVERY winter, I return here to my hometown, and every year, I feel a little shabbier.
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But the stylish blue and white tower block is in fact a facade stuck on to a much shabbier building.
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Not only did he leave no legacy, but he left the political system in far shabbier shape than he found it.
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Prices seem unreal, current and former neighborhoods out of reach, and the options smaller, darker and shabbier than those of yore.
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It is less dense than the wealthier cities to the south, with fewer skyscrapers and malls, and it is a little shabbier.
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Booted out for upgrading its shabbier stores too slowly, the firm's boss, Marc Heussinger, was replaced last year by Torsten Hufnagel, his deputy.
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Infrastructure in many Western countries is often shabbier than in China, homeless people abound in big cities and crime is a constant risk.
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Like a shabbier version of Tokyo's Kawaii Monster Cafe in Harajuku, the Unicorn Cafe is a glittering example of what happens when Instagram spawns a restaurant.
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And as someone who doesn't see couture in my everyday life, putting it together with the papal vestments inevitably makes couture look shabbier than it really is.
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As the rich get richer and more businesses focus exclusively on serving them, there is less attention and shabbier service for everybody who's not at the pinnacle.
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A damning report by the Inspector General a week ago found private inmates get worse treatment, fewer resources, and shabbier conditions than their counterparts in publicly-run prisons.
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The slightly shabbier north has more multifamily buildings, while single-family properties are more common in the south, which is also where the city's three historic districts are found.
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When Sabatier was working to save his $0003 million, he moved from a $1,500-per-month apartment into a slightly shabbier $700-per-month place, saving him a monthly total of $800.
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When I meet the two for lunch, I'm struck by the fact that Root is a stark contrast to the city's only other Wa restaurant, a much shabbier hole-in-the-wall.
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A crime drama created by Roy Huggins, the show featured Mr. Smith as a glamorous alternative to the shabbier investigators of other series, and Edd Byrnes as Kookie, a heartthrob parking-lot attendant.
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About three dozen of those units are in Bushwick, where midsize modernist developments like 267 Evergreen Avenue, an eight-unit condominium from HomeLand Property Group, coexist with shabbier buildings, like the shuttered deli the condo faces.
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Ordinary Algerians, in the grimy downtown streets where great chunks of plaster are peeling from the Haussmann-style buildings, in the shabby cafes made shabbier by five years of fluctuating oil prices, and in the mass demonstrations, say there is no going back.
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Every major city now has a section for the mostly Kurdish fighters from the Y.P.G., as well as the Women's Protection Units, Y.P.J. They are well tended, with permanent staff and no expense spared, usually in striking contrast with the much shabbier civilian graveyards.
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Those were the years when America decided to embrace what Hunter S. Thompson, writing about Nixon, called "the werewolf in us: the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts on nights when the moon comes too close…" As recent events reveal, we needed to replace that shabby, pathetic, predatory episode with an updated monstrosity that, in less than 100 days, has already proven to be shabbier and more venal, petty, paranoid, and delusional than Nixon ever was.
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Onstage, though, Javelin is a shabbier proposition, though not unwelcomely so.
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Indignant at this, Jiang and Gao decide to move out to a smaller, shabbier attic apartment scouted out by their friends. Gao becomes a schoolteacher and Jiang a journalist. Jiang becomes pregnant. She writes in her column about the incident of the widow and of her cousin's oppression.
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""Obituary: George Odger," The Labor Standard [New York], vol. 2, no. 12 (17 March 1877), pg. 3. Henry James wrote of the funeral: "The element of the grotesque was very noticeable to me in the most marked collection of the shabbier English types that I had seen since I came to London.
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"An Artist's Light-Filled Tribute to Turner," Hyperallergic, 18 November 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2019. Harvey built a skeletal version of Turner's London gallery, hung with 34 rear-illuminated, hand-engraved mirrors mimicking the exhibition at the time of his death, which depicted a panoramic view of faded, shabbier, contemporary Margate.Swenson, Kirsten.
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The rabbit is awed by this idea, however his chances of achieving this wish are slight. One night, the boy's nanny gives the rabbit to the boy to sleep with, in place of a lost toy. The rabbit becomes the boy's favorite toy, enjoying picnics with him in the spring, and the boy regards the rabbit as real. Time passes and the rabbit becomes shabbier, but happy.
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Lemmon also caught a cold when one scene on a park bench was filmed in sub-zero weather. Art director Alexandre Trauner used forced perspective to create the set of a large insurance company office. The set appeared to be a very long room full of desks and workers; however, successively smaller people and desks were placed to the back of the room, ending up with children. He designed the set of Baxter's apartment to appear smaller and shabbier than the spacious apartments that usually appeared in films of the day.
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In conversations with Wei and later text messages with friends, Ravi expressed distrust of the stranger that Clementi brought into the room, describing him as "an older, shabbier-looking guy". Ravi said he was worried about theft and that he left the computer in a state where he could view the webcam due to those concerns. However, other witnesses testified that Ravi said he also wanted to confirm that Clementi was gay. Ravi and Wei viewed the video stream via iChat for a few seconds, seeing Clementi and his guest kissing.
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Roger Chartier points out that Ménétra's text has helped establish that people of humble social status owned books that were not aimed at them. Lisa Jane Graham, writing in The Journal of Modern History, describes Ménétra's Journal as an example of "low Enlightenment" culture, an example of how "[t]he Enlightenment clearly strayed beyond glittering portals into much shabbier abodes." Raymond Birn, writing in Eighteenth-Century Studies, points out the importance of Ménétra's Journal as a historical document: > [B]eneath the surface of Ménétra's consciousness, a theme does appear to > prevail. It is the struggle for liberty—the liberty to work or not work, to > select companions and friends irrespective of conventional social > restraints, to make love as one sees fit, to choose between social > integration and dissociation.
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