Soho used to be seedy, and seediness is one authentic feature developers rarely strive to preserve.
He was introduced to TV writing at Granada by Peter Eckersley and made an immediate impact with plays such as The Reporters (1972), an autobiographical view of the joyful seediness of provincial journalism, and The Mosedale Horseshoe, as well as a political serial, The Nearly Man (1974).
Hard to argue with that, I thought later, as I strolled in the sunshine down the newly glittering port, restored from its former seediness.
It was in the days before the former mayor cleaned it up, so there was a lot of seediness going on.
Its streets are still pleasingly ramshackle in parts and it has the vague seediness that often characterises large ports.
STREET-WALKERS; kerb-crawlers; phone booths plastered with pictures of breasts and buttocks: the sheer seediness of prostitution is just one reason governments have long sought to outlaw it, or corral it in licensed brothels or "tolerance zones".
In recent years the Rossiya's ugliness has been matched by its seediness.
For days after Hwang Jang Yop, former secretary of the North Korean Workers Party, became the most senior North Korean ever to defect when he sought asylum in the South Korean embassy in Beijing in 1997, the compound was surrounded by quantities of North Korean thugs of such extraordinary seediness that they put even China's goons to shame.
But even if they aren't sustained, the story conveys an air of seediness and arrogance surrounding the party that is striking in one which has been in office barely a year.
But the seediness and the pathos of the sexting are embarrassing, as Barack Obama put it when he weighed in yesterday.And the parent test points to another intuition: voters think elected officials should be held to a relatively high standard of behaviour, as indeed should parents, teachers, coaches, and other people who volunteer themselves for positions of moral authority.
Similar characters and themes emerge from the well-written Lokotown and Other Stories (1966), where the glitter and excitement of Lagos life is sharply contrasted with its seediness and degradation.
