Although she maintains an opulent residence on fashionable Fifth Avenue, in Lily's eyes it lacks a certain chic, and thus is but one step away from dinginess.
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Although the building needs substantial work, including replacing a sagging floor in danger of collapsing into the basement, Santana promises " to preserve the dark dinginess that made the Stone Pony ."
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Planted bravely in the seedy milieu _ decibels, debauchery and dinginess abounding _ mom and dad look on as their son or daughter leads a ritual celebration of everything a concerned parent warns against.
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The Krumlov hasn't quite shaken the dinginess of the Soviet era, but it had a fine location on the cobblestone square, and once again we could park the Swing right out front.
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Van Bebber's movie is almost intentionally crude-looking, copping the dinginess of any number of washed-out exploitation flicks from the 1970s and the style of a lot of downtown / underground film artists.
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And the title poem makes us look and look again at murals in a New England post office, resolutely cheerful and patriotic; choosing to tell us nothing about " the dinginess hope leaves when it deserts us ."
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The shrine, with its central heating and windows open to the sun, seems a very bright and quiet place, far removed from the dark dinginess of the Tibetan and Himalayan originals, with their sweet fog of butter-lamp smoke and the shrieks of scrappy novices racketing through monastic courtyards in flip-flop sandals.
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There has been a persistent and willful notion that jazz is somehow associated with squalor and dinginess and bad ventilation, and that its partisans qualify as dedicated only if they present a take-me-home-for-�twenty-two-fifty appearance . . . . there has been a widespread belief that jazz is not truly jazz unless it is heard in an atmosphere of murkiness, strangulating spirits, dirty glasses and soiled napery.
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He also seems to be having fun pretending he's in a " Mission : Impossible " dream . ( At some point, for some reason, Snipes is dressed to look like U . N . Secretary-General Kofi Annan . ) But Christian Duguay isn't a director so much as a plagiarist with no panache . ( But his next assignment is the third " Terminator, " anyway . ) When Snipes is framed minutes before China signs a pivotal trade agreement, the film plunges into perpetual dinginess.
