grunginess

A better argument is that he is an unexotic, mainstream conservative focused on preserving law, order and the value of currency, whereas Fetterman’s flamboyant grunginess serves to distract attention from his progressivism, which would delight Manhattan’s sleeker precincts.

Michael Carnahan’s set, expanding in grunginess on his earlier version, turns grime into a kind of pulp poetry, from the peeling linoleum to the succulents striving to survive in a barely translucent window.

“When I’m in a new city, I like the grunginess of certain places, I like that authentic feel,” Reynolds, 33, said by phone.

“I do like men more messed up than uptight,” Risso says of the underlying grunginess in his menswear.

The movie is also Bergmanesque in its geographical specificity, with the brownstones and storefronts of gentrified Brooklyn, its vestigial and picturesque touches of grunginess, coming to life with an ironically hermetic charm.