Paul Hollywood

Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived-in' look. It's alive, it's vibrant, it's a little bit dirty, it's busy, and I loved it. I felt like this was how Rome would probably have been 2,000 years ago. There's a real bustle, and it's down and dirty.

English Chef

Michael Moore

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

American Activist

Malik Yoba

I used to walk in the burnt up Harlem of the '80s, and I'd look at brownstones that were dilapidated or apartment buildings, thinking 'Whoever designed this and built this did not want it to look like this.' So, I used to visualize one day being able to contribute and build in Harlem.

American Actor

Ian Gillan

In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps.

English Musician

Ravi Babu

I found an old dilapidated house in Banjara Hills which the owners were demolishing, and requested them to give it to me for filming, which they obliged. We worked nearly four months on that building to make it look the way we wanted.

Robert Eggers

Without sounding like a New Age crystal worshipper, you can feel something there, in these old dilapidated colonial farms and hidden graveyards in the middle of a pine forest. I certainly did as a kid.

American Director

Implies lack of care or maintenance over a long period.

Neglect Implication

Used to describe visible signs of decay and wear.

Visual Description

Can evoke feelings of sadness or a sense of forgotten history.

Emotional Tone

 Because, they said, the premise of all this work was that kids were bored with old libraries, musty old libraries. They were tired of them. And instead, they said, these kids have never really seen a library. The school libraries in these schools are really so dilapidated, if they're there at all,

How to design a library...

 homes in those communities that are being built or bought by the people who are actually going to live in them; dilapidated buildings that once stood  empty now full of energized underdogs sipping coffee and writing code and, most importantly, bringing with them the next generation of human

Irma L. Olguin Jr.: How...

 But the impact of carrying out this unthinkable act proves to be more than he was prepared for. Though the novel is sometimes cited as one of the first psychological thrillers, its scope reaches far beyond Raskolnikov’s inner turmoil. From dank taverns to dilapidated apartments

Why should you read...

 Think about a problem in the common life of your city. It can be something small, like where a street lamp should go, or something medium like which library should have its hours extended or cut, or maybe something bigger, like whether a dilapidated waterfront should be

Eric Liu: Why ordinary...

 you find that dilapidated infrastructure and logistics continue to be a stumbling block to the delivery of medicine and healthcare in the rural areas. However, through a network of state-owned enterprises, the Chinese have been able to go into these rural areas,

Dambisa Moyo: Is China...

 them to feel sorrow for the people in a subject matter that happened in general and that's not what I'm aiming for I'm actually aiming for the opposite so I want them to find the beauty in the apocalypse I want them to find the beauty in the dilapidated and the

Journey Inside...

 It was this guest house, it had kind of been dilapidated, not taken care of for a long time. And one night, I was sitting there and I got this really spooky feeling, kind of the feeling like you're being watched. But no one was there except my two dogs,

A scientific approach to...

 I insult them for insulting our intelligence. And it's because we are tired of the hypocrisy and false promises. For example, the Nigerian president vowed to end medical tourism by fixing our dilapidated hospitals

Africa is a sleeping...

 dilapidated homes no one has put any dollars to open up a store that's why the hope is gone there's been economic tragedies there's been environmental tragedies horrific extent but their folks who are holding on

What the Discovery of...

 the most underdeveloped infrastructure in the whole world and we also know that roads bad roads dilapidated railways congested inefficient ports dangerous airports don't make for great connections or

Dilapidated