Sentence examples for seedy atmosphere from inspiring English sources

The occasional clunk notwithstanding, what Chabon does really successfully is conjure up a seedy atmosphere.

Mr. Palitz may favor a glamorously seedy atmosphere, but the local Hollywood Boulevard business owners do not.

Despite its narrowness and occasional unpleasantness, "Gordon" is nourished by a sense of lived experience that derives not only from the seedy atmosphere of dimly lighted rooms and public shortages but from details such as the revelation that Louisa's master, so virile with her, was impotent with a previous mistress.

The theater's slightly seedy atmosphere was appropriate for the Kit Kat Club, the gaudily raunchy Berlin nightspot where much of "Cabaret" takes place; the front rows were removed and replaced with club tables to add a taste of realism to the illusion of the show.

Caulfield had a particular aversion to Richard Sickert, and the dark and damp, seedy atmospheres of his paintings.

A seedy, bitter atmosphere prevails throughout mainly thanks to the misanthropic detective.

He did not so much enjoy another trip on a tramp steamer bound for the West Africa station, finding the atmosphere seedy.

It is a tense drama, peopled with seedy characters moving in an atmosphere of English parochial repression, which unfolds inexorably towards a characteristically grisly denouement.

Over the course of the last decade, a new Times Square has grown up in the place of the old -- a global entertainment-finance-media nexus of glass towers, with themed restaurants and megastores on their ground floors offering a wholesome and, on the whole, ingeniously engineered version of the famously carnivalesque atmosphere of the seedy Times Square of generations past.

Michael Frayn was himself a student and Russian interpreter in Moscow in the 1950s, and this novel conveys the atmosphere of that time: seedy, cold, grumbling, paranoid.

As I steadied the wall, I wondered how this skin of mine, tanned brown from the Iraqi sun, could now soak up the atmosphere of a good, seedy city bar.