Word: decrepit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Faculty for The Crimson one day last winter, he beckoned me to join him at his University Hall office window. Pointing to Weld, the building next door, he began to explain why the Yard dorms needed renovation so badly. My former home, he told me, was simply decrepit...
...most Detroit residents, the inferno that swept through a run-down boardinghouse, killing 10 mostly elderly and disabled residents, was one more reminder of how decrepit the city's housing stock has become. Detroit has averaged one new housing start annually for the past 17 years, among the lowest building rates in the nation. But last week, in a counterpoint to the sorrow of the deadliest fire in nearly 50 years, the city also offered a sign of hope. As the choir of gospel singers sang and the mayor beamed, Detroit opened its first new inner-city housing development...
...with the idea of both his "baby " sister, who is almost twenty years old, having a full-fledged love affair, as well as his neurotic mother taking on lover, Van. All this dismay follows his father's untimely death and the departure of his mother and sister from their decrepit house--his melancholic behavior resonates with allusions to Hamlet...
...supporting roles, Winsome Brown as the decrepit Madame de Rosemonde is amusing and well-cast. Ian Lithgow as Cecile Volanges' courter provides some comic relief...
Winsome Brown make a deliciously decrepit Claire Trumpefeller. Her role is a mix of the spoiled princess who wants the moon, the vengeful bitch, the Lady Bountiful and the tragic hero spoiled by circumstances. Brown manages to bring them together with surprising skill. However, Brown fails to make us see the passionate child that Claire used to be. Looking at Brown, the viewer sees only the narcissistic old woman of the present...