Sentence examples for seedy air from inspiring English sources
GÖRLITZER PARK, a patch of grass and concrete, has a seedy air.
Camden Town, however, with its enduringly seedy air and historical rock associations continues to be a spiritual home for a certain strata of pub-based music.
(It is also where Wim Wenders filmed scenes for his 1985 documentary, "Tokyo-Ga".) On a Tuesday evening last January, the narrow alleys of Golden Gai still exuded a seedy air, lined with a few rusty chairs and mops leaning against walls.
That composition comes paired with footage from the bowels of the Barbican, that lend an appropriately seedy air to the whole proceedings.
He is "seedy", exuding an "air of failure".
There's been a lot of talk about the middle-class gentrification of Brighton over the last decade, but it doesn't seem to have impacted much on the city's famous air of slightly seedy licentiousness, on Keith Waterhouse's famous judgment that it's a town that always looks as if it's helping police with their inquiries.
There he lies in a seedy room, choking with bronchitis, surrounded by stale air and cigarette butts, and surprised to meet his determined rescuer.
Outside, on a makeshift patio (lovely for brunch in the summer), overturned furniture gives the place an abandoned air; inside, the scant light makes for a pleasantly seedy sodium glow.
"It pleased us, the general excitement in the air in 1969," Serena says early on, and again, not many pages later: "A seedy, careless insurrection was in the air".
A seedy place where grass grew on the dance floor, pistols blazed, and chairs and brandy bottles flew through the air, that club is certainly not everybody's idea of a joyful party hangout.
