seediness

“There are two ways to tackle the city: dig for the vintage gems among the seediness or embrace the gambling cheesiness and join a bachelorette party.”

The Huffington Post: Jeralyn Gerba: Where to Go From Here: Labor Day Ideas for NYC

“There's lots of room for all these figures, and for Sticklin's movements, on designer George Lucas's simple set: a bar counter flanked by tall wooden stools, set against a backdrop of graffiti-scrawled black fabric that aptly evokes the seediness of the story's East Belfast.”

The Washington Post: Theater review: Keegan Theatre's world premiere of 'Basra Boy'

“The hard, abrasive industrial sound fit perfectly with the dark seediness of Berlin clubs at the time.”

The Wall Street Journal: The Berlin Night Life: Dark...and Cool

“Walking down Peckham high street, I still feel there is a powerful seediness Eritrea circa 1982 and no redeeming features, but a strange thing happens if you turn down a side street that looks like a side street you shouldn't turn down – suddenly there is organic pizza and … the Review bookshop.”

The Guardian: My favourite independent bookshop: Review, London

“• Compton Avenue N1, +44 020-7359 4019, unionchapel.org.ukAn imposing corner pub situated between the sophistication of Islington and the seediness of Kings Cross, The Lexington is a curious mix of American-style lounge bar and old English pub.”

The Guardian: 10 of the best music venues in London

“You never hear about the truth of the seediness of the Plaza hotel, and that seems to me far more likely.”

Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock

“Now I understood things better, I sensed I had a nasty seediness inside of me that I couldn't release into an underworld like this.”

Fictionaut: Potsdamer Strasse #4

“There was an appealing seediness to the place, and I remember being pleased at the sight of the adult pleasures which seemed a huge improvement over last year's tame walk through the theatre district to see Mame.”

Fictionaut: First Love & Other Obsessions

“Since the Giuliani administration kicked out the porn stores, the phrase "Disneyfication of Times Square" has been used over and over again by those that kind of liked the seediness, by critics of those people, by references to those people, by sociologists, etc.”

Disney Literally Taking Times Square