It allows me to walk down the street past some sad derelict pawing through a trash can and not have the encounter spoil my dinner.
A connoisseur of the fly-blown backwaters, he potters through derelict borderlands with a nose for the poetry of desolation.
Vaguely thinking of themselves as rebels, high on drugs and taped music, they have sped through derelict towns, taken potshots at barking dogs and committed minor holdups.
Abel, with his thick dark hair, his classic profile, and his refined manners, drives through derelict, graffiti-covered industrial buildings in Brooklyn, and sees money in the crumbling walls.
He found, however, that the cortege had an unexpected audience: as the train slowly travelled for eight hours through derelict New Jersey or ragged rural Delaware, a million locals turned out to watch this rite of passage.
Close up, the greenhouses lie derelict and trees rampage through their dilapidated timber frames.
Around the time I was backing away from the China novel, I was travelling between New York and Washington on the train, which goes through a derelict section of Baltimore.
WALKING through the derelict pasta sauce factory in nearby Central Falls, R.I., you can see its bygone glories in a soaring, window-flanked second floor that is a magnificent testimonial to industry.
Pavel's friend Semyon feels that "everywhere I go these days I find myself running into ghosts," and Pavel himself, walking through his derelict neighborhood, thinks he could be seeing "what awaits all of Russia.
He welcomes cameras through his derelict door seems almost proud of his hoarding.
