Hanya Yanagihara

It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

American Novelist

Chuck Schumer

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

American Politician

Adrian Dunbar

I would hope that the Government would still support those small, struggling independent theatre companies and also maybe look to the built architecture of the theaters because we can't let them get into disrepair. They are part of the fabric of the country.

Irish Actor

Aaron Peirsol

The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.

American Athlete

Sherrod Brown

If we expect to continue our leadership in the global economy, we must invest in a long-term transportation plan -f or both highways and transit programs. Too many of our roads, bridges, and railways have fallen into disrepair.

Simon Toyne

My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.

British Writer

Mark Zandi

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

American Economist

Suzanne Somers

Our bodies are finely tuned machines, and if our hormone mixtures aren't 'just right', everything goes into disrepair.

American Actress

Indicates neglect or lack of maintenance, often suggesting a need for repair or restoration.

Negative Connotation

'Disrepair' implies functionality issues, not just appearance; things don't work as they should.

Beyond Aesthetics

Usually refers to something that has become worse over time, not something recently broken.

Implies Aging

 like there are still people living today that would have worked here and relatives of those people. It's crazy to think and you'd think that when these places go into disrepair, disuse, no one uses them anymore they become kind of obsolete and unimportant. But this is now been turned literally a few weeks ago,

Spotting the World's...

 eugene villale duke this was the restoration that produced the gallery de chamere the new spire and many of the iconic features that notre dame became famous for for tomas seeing the confluence of all these elements both intact and in disrepair became the push and pull of a

Resurrecting Notre-Dame...

 This tight-knit community also came together recently, and they purchased an abandoned building, an abandoned building that was in disrepair and in foreclosure. And with the help of friends and families and volunteers, they were able to take down the bulletproof glass,

How urban agriculture is...

 a lot of these community institutions fell into disrepair. With the San Francisco Arts Council, we were able to raise money and to actually refurbish the place. And we were able to have a community meeting. And within the community meeting, people got up and said,

How urban spaces can...

 but knowing their names, checking day after day, making sure that those elderly people will never, ever again feel alone in a moment of disrepair. And we began going to the deeper areas, places that all of a sudden, the bridges were broken,

José Andrés: How a team...

 largely been around energy conservation and I've done everything from the ground up really helping supers in boiler rooms try to figure out how to run their heating systems more efficiently so this boiler room is clearly in disrepair and

Managing the New York...

 slowly see us they need to speak to all Shadrach and shadrach I must say has been an absolute lifesaver him and his assistant David these vehicles were in a state of disrepair when we arrived here and there's been a huge huge amounts of

See Elephants at Their...

 the fortifications lost their purpose. And without regular reinforcement, the wall fell into disrepair, rammed earth eroded, while brick and stone were plundered for building materials. But its job wasn't finished. During World War II,

What makes the Great...

 the entire body of the vehicle will be encased in a steel EXO cage to protect him in a rollover because Curt expects road conditions after an economic collapse to fall into disrepair and become hazardous

Armored for Armageddon PIPE...

 a huge enterprise that educates more than a million students at a time, and in buildings that are like this one, old buildings, big buildings, drafty buildings, sometimes buildings that are in disrepair,