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(Do you watch The Wire?)

It doesn't draw me in. As an example, this:

The room they were in now was Sincere's home office he had redecorated to look similar like the President's oval office but with more tasteful colors. Sin sat behind his brown oak desk in his customized thrown-like leather chair looking at his brother. On the freshly beige painted walls were framed pictures of celebrities Sin had taken pictures with-LL Cool J, Keith Sweat, Teddy Riley, and many other hip-hop celebrities.


Could be re-worded like:

Sincere had decorated the room to resemble a more colourful Oval Office. Sitting behind his desk, he eyed his brother. Surrounding and eyeing both were faces framed and hung: LL Cool J, Keith Sweat, Teddy Riley; in each of them, Sin posed as if he was their peer, their friend.

Word economy is important. If you're wanting to portray Sincere and his office as products of one another, you can arrive at that much quicker and more effectively by showing not so much how he acts in the chair, but what the photographs on the walls might tell us of him. He is a friend and equal to men of fame; that establishes that he's powerful, for starters, or packs some weight at least. In having the photos on show, he's also proud; self-important.

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