Fourteen years after buying the three-story house, his renovation still isn't complete: the master bathroom hasn't been updated, there are stacks of abandoned doors sitting in the mudroom downstairs, and so many other unfinished projects that he has refused requests to include his house on tours.
Perhaps humans have simply entered a new stage of evolution in which we have abandoned chocolates, door holding, flowers or any overt gesture of interest for a new and unnatural order of things.
Towns looked abandoned, the doors of sun-bleached frontier houses flapping in the wind.
Of the some 60 houses that cluster around the single road, many are water-damaged and some are abandoned, their doors left open, windows broken.
It bears a brand name evoking a striving elegance, Coach, and sits in the hastily abandoned car — doors open, engine running — among lingerie, high heels and other items that hint of the inelegant working life of that woman now in the wind.
One questionable touch: doors that open with electronic touch pads, as on the Corvette, abandoning conventional door handles inside and out.
I've had to abandon the door puzzle on level 4 and press forward in the hopes of finding more rations, and while I'm doing this, neither of my fighters can regain health.
That year, he found a home for the New-York Historical Society: the abandoned almshouse next door to the debtors' prison.
Uncle Anthony carried a pistol, in case alligators swam in from the nearby Neches River, or snakes came from the abandoned lot next door.
The house next door, abandoned for three decades, was finally demolished last summer, and his mother planned to do some planting in the lot where it stood.
