Clemency has high hopes for Mrs Potchard's idyllic-sounding Wentworth Gardens – crushed when it turns out to be a grey, dilapidated boarding house offering humble lodgings to those unable to afford anything more salubrious.
The entrance faces a new plaza dotted with trees that links the Civic Center with the Golden Triangle, a neighborhood of once-dilapidated boarding houses that developers are transforming into a hip neighborhood for young urbanites.
Other parts of the Flint suburb, which has a population of about 25,300, have dilapidated homes and boarded-up storefronts.
So you anticipate disaster when she's hired to teach English to Chinese sailors — the only woman (and one of only two Americans) on board a dilapidated ship chartered for an oil survey in the Gulf of Mexico.
Both are boarded up, dilapidated and shrouded in weeds and debris.
The structure is so dilapidated that it has been boarded up by some of the neighbors.
He bought the 10-bedroom property on Liberty Street in the heart of Savannah's historic district in 2004, even though it was boarded up and dilapidated.
The Tribe (loosely developed from the director's 2011 short film Deafness) is set in a dilapidated state boarding school for hearing-impaired teenagers in Kiev, where neglected students are abandoned to a Lord-of-the-Flies-type anarchy, and where the violent bullies are the rulers.
Set in a dilapidated New Orleans boarding house in 1938, Vieux Carre captures the fragility and dignity of the powerless.
Locals had told me that Calhoun Street was the place to be on campus, but what I found there were several drab and uninspired blocks with lots of abandoned, boarded-up buildings, including a dilapidated parking deck and what appeared to be a shuttered fast food joint.
