However, he soon began to realise that the shabbiness of his study was at odds with the elegance of the gown. |
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It has a certain shabbiness now, and that's unfortunate as it is only a very small proportion of the population which makes it that way. |
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There are holes in the material and it is roughly stitched together, its shabbiness evoking the deprivations of post-war Europe. |
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Some of its most loyal clients have taken their productions elsewhere, complaining of its general shabbiness. |
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This means that these latter are welcomed with unfailing respect, with their questionings, their richness and their shabbiness. |
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He was highly strung and had a low tolerance for shabbiness and mediocrity. |
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Rough clothing and general shabbiness proclaimed their lack of affluence, yet there was no rowdiness, and no one gave the two overworked barmaids trouble. |
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Why don't people do something about the shabbiness that surrounds us? |
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It was what he said when someone asked a question about the shabbiness of Bedouin villages in the Negev. |
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I was so stunned by the shabbiness of their arguments that it made me wonder how powerful this multitrillion-dollar industry is. |
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People love to come here for a walk or a rest, and it is precisely here that the shabbiness and emptiness of the old shops have the most negative effect on visitors. |
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Unthreatened by the muggings that were routine a decade earlier, we claimed the identity handed down to us: a certain shabbiness, along with a good dose of brains and a scrappy sense of local pride. |
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The work's material shabbiness and playacting artificiality intensified the effect, roping me into complicity with the artist's intention as efficiently as a halcyon film by Godard. |
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The bright mimosas and bougainvilleas of Rabat and the bustling business centre of Casablanca form a striking contrast with the dreary shabbiness and laissez-aller encountered elsewhere in the region. |
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The shabbiness of public transport is pushing people onto crowded roads. |
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It lit the backs of bindings, pictures, furniture which had reached exactly the right pitch of faded country-house shabbiness, curtains laundered hundreds of times over and music open above the keys of a piano. |
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Parks's keen eye for picturesque decay cannot disguise the poverty that characterises so much of this family's material life, a shabbiness most seek to overcome by carrying themselves in public with superhuman dignity. |
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However the city gave an appearance overall of shabbiness and decay. |
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So they walked till they came to Claremont and Kumalo was shocked by its shabbiness and dirtiness, and the closeness of the houses, and the filth in the streets. |
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