A number of the facades -- some Federal style, some Georgian, most an architectural mix -- have been restored, and others seem battered, although traces of rich details are plentiful.
When I was growing up, in the eighties and nineties, the neighborhood seemed battered, unsteady on its feet, as though it had just been jumped by a gang made up of municipal bankruptcy, crack cocaine, and despair.
Rebels in districts of Aleppo visited by Reuters journalists seemed battered, overwhelmed and running low on ammunition after days of intense tank shelling and helicopter gunships strafing their positions with heavy machinegun fire.
All Coverage Is Not Equal Even though Florida seems ever battered by hurricanes, it ranked only sixth on the list.
Rarely have the Knicks seemed more battered, physically and spiritually.
The struggle for resolution can be especially agitated around the faces of Mr. Freud's female nudes, which are sometimes so overworked they seem almost battered.
As is so often the case with movies of this kind, those questions are much more intriguing than the answers, and in its last 40 minutes "Spartan" starts to seem as battered and fatigued as its hero.
For months, even as India's economy has grown at roughly 9 percent, the coalition national government, led by the Indian National Congress Party, has often seemed adrift, battered by a litany of corruption scandals and criticized for failing to meet goals on road building, power generation and a host of other issues.
The love scenes seem to batter at the limits of tonality, while Mélisande's death eventually causes the opulent textures to disintegrate into shards of aphoristic instrumental sound.
Toradze gave us Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto, which suits him rather well, since it allows him to show off his dexterity without indulging his habit of seeming to batter the piano rather than play it.
