11. Sassoon was a good poet for the war itself and then fell into repetition and shabbiness . 12. For all its shabbiness and seediness, the life of the railbird is an inherently optimistic one. 13. With the generosity of a born meddler, Flora undertakes to lift the Starkadders from their own shabbiness . 14. But Pale looks battered by war nonetheless, its shabbiness and neglect apparent in the buildings and streets. 15. We are poor-mouthing our way to a national shabbiness that ill becomes and ill serves us. 16. Despite his terrible poverty and shabbiness , they have sex but it is without any emotion or passion. 17. Wallace on a factory tour finds the conditions wanting with shabbiness , old machinery and the workers lackadaisical. 18. It continues to pack in customers who ignore its slight shabbiness and concentrate on the classic Italian-American food. 19. The film had a respect for shabbiness , eccentricity and affable waywardness that Cole and Cody don't get. 20. It looks a little sad these days, its shabbiness made all the more conspicuous by the Disneyfication taking place around it.