Sentences with phrase «barren as desert»

Barren as desert IMO.

Socially speaking, the city was as barren as its desert.

Not exact matches

Isaiah describes a desert climate dry and barren as the northern Wyoming plains.

And that will mean «desert», as in a barren time, stripped down, essential and simple and minimal.

Do note the use of «regularly» as, without that, the odd good win is just an oasis in a barren desert.

Unless long - term public good wins over short - term private gain and ignorance, vast ranges, already greatly depleted, will at no distant date be as barren as the sheep - created deserts of Spain.

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a framework for the permanent disposal of the nation's nuclear waste, leading to the 1987 selection of Yucca Mountain, a barren peak in the high desert of Nevada, as the site of a deep geologic repository that would be built and operated by the Department of Energy.

Figuring out just how long the continent has been a barren, cold desert of ice can give clues as to how Antarctica responded to the effects of past climates and can perhaps also indicate what to expect there in the future as Earth's atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide grows.

Step 1: The first step in creating a capsule wardrobe is cleaning out your closet and removing everything until it is barren as the Sahara desert.

Inside a desert oasis, a queen (Lucy Liu) lays dying as her son Prince (Jeffrey Wahlberg) travels across barren waste lands to find a near - mythical medicine to save her life.

Determined to prove him wrong, J Paul had leased a patch of barren desert off the Saudis and struck a rich seam of oil just as the entire world was becoming addicted to it.

The varied landscapes of the game are on full display, from lush forests to barren deserts, as well as busy towns and cityscapes.

I never thought the barren desert would like as great as it does in Red Dead Redemption.

It was open for two decades, which is just as long as the area east of the Anacostia River had been a barren book desert.

The country's terrain, stretched across 1.2 million square kilometres, is as diverse as its culture and people — from rugged shorelines and towering peaks, to bushveld, shrubland, magnificent indigenous forest and endless, barren desert.

Discover what makes California and the Golden West so incredibly special as you take in the stunning scenery of the awe inspiring Grand Canyon, the barren beauty of its deserts and the grandeur of the Sierra Nevada.

As you watch the sun rise over the red - tinged sand dunes, listen to your pilot talking about the barren landscape mapped out beneath you, and learn about the wildlife — think camels and gazelles — that prosper in the harsh desert conditions.

And the desert providence is the most barren yet as the only inhabitants are deactivated robots.

Why is it as barren as the Sierra Desert?

Miramar is a barren desert, and adds loads of interesting wrinkles to the PUBG formula as there aren't many forests to hide in so you have to adeptly use the actual terrain to hide from enemies.

Not only did Avalanche Studio's homage to the dystopian world of Mad Max acutely capture the tone and style of its source material; it also made good on reinterpreting the film series» barren desert landscape as arich playground of distractions, filled with good ideas and high drama.

All of the levels within Mad Carnage are incredibly similar, they utilise the same setting (the previously mentioned barren desert) and as such all use the same colour palette.

Survival of the fittest is the name of this visually impressive game, as battles wage across the globe - from the outskirts of abandoned cities and factories to the vast, barren dunes of inhospitable deserts.

Nancy Holt Film and Video October 16 at 4:00 Introduced by DeeDee Halleck Video activist and filmmaker DeeDee Halleck collaborated with Nancy Holt as editor on several of her films, including Sun Tunnels (1978), which documents the making of Holt's major site - specific sculptural work in the northwest Utah desert; and Pine Barrens (1975), a film that evokes «a barren wilderness in south - central New Jersey... (with) the voices of the local people, the «Pineys,»»..

The artist Glenn Kaino will exploit those boundaries in his Desert X contribution, Line in the Sand, conceived as a window framing the border between a lush green golf course and the barren desert beyond, the sand of an infinite hourglass falling between thDesert X contribution, Line in the Sand, conceived as a window framing the border between a lush green golf course and the barren desert beyond, the sand of an infinite hourglass falling between thdesert beyond, the sand of an infinite hourglass falling between the two.

Munro was transfixed by the way the red desert was barren until it rained and then, as if from nowhere, dormant seeds would burst into bloom.

Wherever a forest is converted to a grassland, or a grassland to desert, or barren ground is created, maximum skin surface temperatures rise by 10 to 40 °F.8 Also to quench the thirst of growing populations, extraction of subsurface waters has lowered the water table.9 As the water table drops below the reach of roots, soil moisture is reduced and plants die.

As long as people have been in the American West, we have found its barren desert landscapes to be an environment perfect for dumping and forgetting.&raquAs long as people have been in the American West, we have found its barren desert landscapes to be an environment perfect for dumping and forgetting.&raquas people have been in the American West, we have found its barren desert landscapes to be an environment perfect for dumping and forgetting.»