Word: decrepit
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...hearts but somehow wrong in their heads. They knew communism couldn't work but forgot it. Of the two sides of the argument, though, it seems to me that conservatives were wronger here. They are the ones who kept emphasizing that military strength could grow indefinitely, no matter how decrepit the economy...
This is particularly true in his depiction of "wall Paper in House at Lundy, California" (1939), where the meticulous detail makes the viewer forget that they are looking at a decrepit piece of tacky, messy wallpaper. In each of these, Adams elevates his subject with an irony and skill that recalls, yet precedes...
...reached the steep path and started climbing down on decrepit steps. About halfway, Olga called, "Look back!" I turned my head and saw a man following us. Finally we came to the water. It was a small beach nestled between large rocks. There is a watchtower on the right. Two soldiers directed their binoculars at us. People in a motorboat and a speedboat ahead kick-started their engines. A frigate was mooring 100 yards away. Why a guard nearby? Is he supposed to seize me if I try to escape to Turkey? No way. I am too good a swimmer...
...Pact was probably the only military alliance in history that did nothing but invade its own member states, and the Yugoslav army has finally seen action -- in a civil war. The federal government's bullying of Slovenia is a reminder that fear and force are all that keep these decrepit regimes together...
During the 1970s everyone came to agree that preserving historic buildings and districts is a good thing. In the 1980s both architectural postmodernism and the Rouse phenomenon -- the transformation of decrepit white elephants into spiffy inner-city shopping centers -- reminded people that old-fashioned buildings and commercial bustle were great pleasures. Today Duany and Plater- Zyberk, Calthorpe and their allies are proposing to go all the way, to build wholly new towns and cities the way our ancestors did. If the 1990s really lives up to its wishful early line -- a return to hearth and home, a redoubled environmental concern...