While the looting appeared to be easing, the shabbiness of the goods being carted away indicated the decline may have been because there wasn't much left worth taking.
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Were these ( BEGIN ITAL ) your ( END ITAL ) children, presumably you'd overlook the production shabbiness and cheer, and guffaw and applaud at every available moment.
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The problem is, at least as far as Bill Clinton is concerned, rejecting tawdry stories as unlikely merely because of the sheer shabbiness of the alleged conduct favors hope over experience.
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As of 2012, however, the corridor included some " pockets of shuttered stores and creeping shabbiness " and local planners were in the first stages of efforts to revitalize the corridor.
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The base closing and loss of 22, 000 jobs wounded Charleston's pride and forecasters thought the port city and surrounding area known as the Low Country would slide into genteel shabbiness.
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Garber had written a manuscript, " In Search of Shabbiness ", as a response to the Tom Peters best-seller, " In Search of Excellence ".
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It would be silly to pretend Sinatra's shabbiness didn't exist; to do so requires a sentimentality that is itself antithetical to the honesty that was the hallmark of his singing.
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The level of looting was comparatively low Monday, but the shabbiness of the goods being carted away indicated the decline may have been because there wasn't much left that was worth taking.
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The invention of nylon and other products in the postwar period seemed symbolic of renewal and newness, a concept eagerly taken up by a generation that was tired of the shabbiness of the war years.
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When Bella Ford ( Embeth Davidtz ), an English Victorian woman in deep trouble, arrives on foot and exhausted in a grimy industrial town, the place is a soot-stained tintype of Dickensian shabbiness.
