Sentence examples for decrepit mansion from inspiring English sources

In 1967, she married a young lawyer, the eldest son of a well-established clan in Calcutta, and moved to his family's sprawling, if somewhat decrepit, mansion.

There was depression, self-doubt, a move from London to a decrepit Lyme Regis estate and, after 12 of its acres collapsed into the sea, to a second decrepit mansion.

The team, which recently won the 2002 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award for their musical "Doll," have been working on adapting the story of Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, aunt and first cousin of Mrs. Onassis, who were found by the filmmakers Albert and David Maysles to be living in a decrepit mansion amid piles of garbage, eight cats and a feisty raccoon.

In the film both Big Edie, who was professionally trained as a singer, and Little Edie, who yearned to be a dancer, are always breaking into song or fantasizing about performing and, speaking in a heightened, self-conscious idiom, they frequently turn their decrepit mansion into a stage set for psychodrama that is like a Samuel Beckett play with Tennessee Williams characters.

They are up against Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, selected for his novel Silent House, a "dark family saga", according to chair of judges journalist Maya Jaggi, set in a "decrepit mansion at a Turkish seaside resort, on the eve of a military coup".

"Black Spring" is structured almost exactly like the original "Wuthering Heights": A traveler stops at a decrepit mansion ruled by a cruel tyrant abusing a much younger woman he claims to be his wife.

The singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen bought a home here in the 1960s and a rush of creative types followed him: poets, artists and musicians, who thronged the open-air tavernas at night and set up communal houses in the decrepit mansions.

The other is the narrow, inward-turning path of psychoanalytic therapy: a hidden, almost secret byway travelled by few (the analysts and their patients), edged by decrepit mansions with drawn shades (the training institutes and the analytic societies), marked with inscrutable road signs (the scientific papers) — the road along which Aaron Green is trudging.

The photographer, who hung dearly to his amateur status, went on road trips with his family, pulling over at abandoned farmhouses and ominous, decrepit mansions along the way.

The effect is of an airy, slightly dusty atelier or a decrepit antebellum mansion that Walker Evans might have photographed.

The band, living in a decrepit Hollywood mansion once owned by Bela Lugosi and absorbing copious quantities of drugs, pressed on with their next album.