Bangkok overloads you with life, with white heat and hassle, with seediness and enterprise, with extortion and ancient beliefs. |
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She captures the seediness, deprivation and violence on the mean streets of Bradford well in her assured but frill-free prose. |
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Their songs were born to dwell in long-lost cabarets and quaint bars that fall just short of seediness. |
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At that time, fruit seediness or the number of enclosed ripe nutlets was also determined for each ripe fruit. |
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It was in the days before the former mayor cleaned it up, so there was a lot of seediness going on. |
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Soho used to be seedy, and seediness is one authentic feature developers rarely strive to preserve. |
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Hard to argue with that, I thought later, as I strolled in the sunshine down the newly glittering port, restored from its former seediness. |
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Its streets are still pleasingly ramshackle in parts and it has the vague seediness that often characterises large ports. |
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The sweet seediness of figs complements the slow cooked stickiness of the red onions. |
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Even its architecture mimics the conflict between seediness and sophistication in a disreputable world posing as the most refined city in the East. |
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This unique combo of rockabilly seediness and Frank Sinatra glamour, fit Johnny like a pleather glove. |
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In 1990, Twin Peaks gave the world a nightmare vision into the seediness beneath the placid veneer of small-town America. |
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In recent years the Rossiya's ugliness has been matched by its seediness. |
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And while this combination of glamour and seediness generated real excitement in people looking for a way to let loose, gambling, as an activity, was still viewed primarily as a vice. |
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Some have ended up as grisly 'fun pubs' or chain horrors, some have been trendified beyond recognition, others have just descended into unloved seediness. |
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