Sentence examples for constant renovations from inspiring English sources

(Visitors reported having to step over beams or piles of soil from one of Jefferson's constant renovations).

She has stuck with him through the scaffolding, the constant renovations, the feeling of "living inside a Saks Fifth Avenue window".

On one hand, they use the prevailing obsession with real estate as a way to reveal their characters' moral shortcomings — their obsession with the quality of their houses, their pressing need to compete, the essential meaninglessness of their constant renovations, as if desperate to erase history and refashion homes as an outward manifestation of a self set free from the past.

The emblem of this movement is Ferrán Adrià, the chef-owner of El Bulli, on the Costa Brava, in Spain, who has taken the mandate for constant renovation to an absurd extreme.

"It's not a question of turning away from things," said Mr. Aillagon, who presides over almost constant renovation work to make the château more visitor-friendly, and to restore the sumptuous minutiae of ceilings and gilt in the maze of rooms with their creaking floors and vertiginous windows.

The couple even enjoys the sight of the 18-wheeler-size garbage bins below their windows, where recyclers deposit cardboard, paper and a jumble of metal bars, window panes and air-conditioning fixtures, the residue of Hong Kong's constant renovation and reinvention of itself.

MR: Do you find, once you get to the studio with new material, that you're in constant renovation mode?

This sort of constant renovation and improvement would continue throughout the war as forts were adapted to new purposes and new garrisons.

Unfortunately, between my constant travels, home renovations and, now, a new baby, I've had the opportunity to host only a single time, in the fall of 2007 -- but it was one of my best experiences so far.

The house, which he named Sunnyside in 1841, required constant repair and renovation over the next twenty years.

Raw concrete was chosen because it did not require constant maintenance and renovation in light of the strong sandy winds.