shabbiness

The beauties are the glamor routes, the passenger trains that, whatever shabbiness may have befallen their interiors, more than make up for it with the grandeur of what lies outside their windows.

Q: Well, you do describe the character of the average bookseller as one of “morose, unsociable shabbiness.”

There were plenty of interesting design twists: One jean jacket in Japanese denim had a regal stiffness, which nicely contrasting with the shabbiness of one of its breast pockets being missing.

Jules parks his mail-mobile and heads into one of those run-down teatros whose shabbiness imparts a kind of glory, the sort of ruin whose functionality makes the present feel like the future.

Your best-known characters now are men who, underneath their exterior shabbiness, possess at least the potential to redeem themselves.