Sentences with phrase «from vast expanses»

Landscape is evoked everywhere in Martin's oeuvre: the orientation of the work suggests the horizon that demarcates the open skies from the vast expanses of desert; the coloring is reminiscent of cool dawns and damp river clay; the gravelly texture effects the touch of sand.

From the vast expanses of Australia s Red Centre to lush tropical wetlands and one of the world s most ancient living cultures, a Northern Territory adventure tour is truly the adventure of a lifetime.

Journeying in comfort and style by train is the best way in which to fully appreciate Zambia's sublime scenery, which ranges from rough - hewn mountain plateaus to verdant floodplains and from vast expanses of open grassland to terracotta - hued desert.

Biologists agonize over whether they are inferring a distorted view of the past from the bits of bone that they pluck from the vast expanse of the earth's accumulated sediments.

Supremely well - situated in the heart of Seminyak and just 200 meters from the vast expanse of Seminyak's sunset beach, Le Jardin Villas are within a 5 minute walk to some of Bali's best restaurants and...

From the vast expanse of the Kansas plains to a city ride in Wichita, there are plenty of great roads for Kansas motorcyclists to explore.

The patterns draw your eye away from the vast expanse of brown.

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Parents separated from their children know the joy and meaning of a voice that seems to leap the vast expanse of distance via the telephone.

In the vast expanse of time from 1607 to 1775, peace was the norm.

THE Denisovans, mysterious cousins of the Neanderthals, occupied a vast realm stretching from the chill expanse of Siberia to the steamy tropical forests of Indonesia — suggesting the third human of the Pleistocene displayed a level of adaptability previously thought to be unique to modern humans.

They should help us to hone descriptions of how, after the big bang, the universe grew from smaller than a proton into a vast expanse in less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

Since 1915 there have been 235 documented cases of vast expanses of water — from horizon to horizon — emitting a uniform white glow in the dark of night.

In the current narrative of how galaxies like our own Milky Way formed, cosmologists postulate they were once fed from a vast reservoir of pristine hydrogen in the intergalactic medium, which permeates the vast expanses between galaxies.

In tackling Louie's story (which sees him transition from Olympian to soldier to castaway to POW to war hero), she takes on a production of monumental scale, filmed in multiple countries and in vast expanses of the open, pitiless Pacific, but her willingness to go big is less impressive than her unwillingness to go gentle.

Filmed with widescreen grandeur on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, The Rider reinvigorates tropes from the western genre of men, horses, honor codes and vast expanses of nature with a refreshing lack of sentimentality, without sacrificing their inherent lyricism and poetry.

It is rare to see random enemies in these vast expanses, which means there is absolutely nothing to do beyond running from point A to point B. Should you come across a base or village, there is no reason to dally there, as no items or lore lurk within.

From the piney woods of East Texas, to the vast expanse of West Texas, to the beautiful buttes of the Hill Country, the only way to really explore Texas is in a 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited in Fort Worth, TX!

Witness the natural wonders of the world unfold before your eyes, from verdant tropical forests to sky - high mountain peaks, down to the vast expanse of the Great Barrier Reef.

The vast, green expanse of Holyrood Park is best experienced from Arthur's Seat, the park's craggy peak and a long - dormant volcano.

The social heart of Villa Markisa is the huge open - sided living pavilion that looks out over the vast expanse of lawn separating the guest wing from the cliff - edge master suite.

Overlooking vast expanse of landscaped gardens, this luxury five star hotel in Delhi presents 411 guest rooms and 29 suites to choose from.

Departing from Moscow, the train will first cross the mighty Ural mountains into European Russia and the immense wooded expanses of Siberia, before continuing its epic journey through the vast plans of Mongolia after which Beijing comes in sight.

The Champs - Elysees, which translates to Elysian Fields, is a far cry from its original 16th century state which was a vast expanse of relaxing fields.

Separating the vast expanses of Western Australia from the rest of the country, South Australia is a great place to stopover when touring.

From there you'll fly over the lush Atherton Tablelands before merging into the vast expanse of Australia's Outback known as the Gulf Savannah.

The vast expanse of the Sahara Desert is only a few hours drive from Marrakech.

The Sonesta Inns is tastefully arranged around a vast central pool area with a gently shelving expanse of sand and garden running from the hotel grounds to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea.

From surprise tiger attacks to aggressive eagles, Methe has had quite a few memorable experiences in the vast expanses of Kyrat.

It is rare to see random enemies in these vast expanses, which means there is absolutely nothing to do beyond running from point A to point B. Should you come across a base or village, there is no reason to dally there, as no items or lore lurk within.

The other major series are «Florals,» whose hues seem to bud from a central point; the self - explanatory «Stripes,» prefiguring late -»60s minimalism; and the «Unfurleds,» in which vast expanses of blank canvas are framed by rivulets of color.

The abstract landscape painting from a private collection in New York is a vast white expanse magnified by the presence of delicate, coloured calligraphy.

Taken in from the vast windows of the Turner Contemporary, which has dedicated two of its gallery spaces to a retrospective of Jean Arp's works, the sea's expanse seemed to open out to France, Belgium, Holland — a fitting reflection of the dynamic internationalism of this sculptor - poet's long career.

At the cavernous Castello di Borghese Vineyard gallery space — an artist's dream with tons of sunlight and vast new white expanses of wall for hanging colorful canvases — I found myself riding along on a wave of blues from painting to painting as I thoroughly enjoyed the sun - drenched work of Mattituck Impressionist Patricia Feiler.

Using a format of simple repetition, derived from both the Minimalist and Pop art aesthetic, she repeats not so much a single motif as a single chromatic instant endlessly across the vast empty expanse of the knitted feld.

Goldstein's work from this period often stems from turbulent natural phenomena and catastrophic events, such as storms, bombings, burning cities, and vast expanses of threatening sky.

In contrast to his better - known vast horizontal expanses of blazing color, these Newmans call for a comparatively intimate space that you happen into, not one that announces itself with sight lines seen from the vantage point of other galleries as the Rothko room does.

In the gallery's main space, three large - scale paintings depict the vast expanses of an empty bed and are punctuated by four smaller works, each featuring a single window seen from without, the warm glow of its light intensified by the dark night surrounding it.

Ironically, given that Judd left the building for Marfa's vast southwestern landscape, my immediate impression of the interior was of the open expanse Judd created by eliminating all interior divisions of space: The building felt much larger on the inside than seemed possible from the outside.

In the painting from which this exhibition takes its title, Viel Raum für allerlei Glück (Plenty of Room for All Sorts of Happiness), for instance, the vast expanse of clear blue sky — evoked with a transparency Büttner might not have envisioned in the «80s — suggests the vacuity of the happy life of the vacationing family who appear as tiny (but overweight) figures frolicking in the sea below.

«For come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: «Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;» and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared.»

«For several years now, scientists have had evidence that dust from storms across the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert drifts out over the Atlantic where it reflects some solar radiation back into space, thus cooling the ocean waters that fuel hurricanes.

Where I am we have a railway, we have a road system, we have a port, we have abyssal depths a few hundred kilometers away, and we have vast expanses of pebbles covered with a light coating of dust that could benefit from amendment with biochar.

This small thickening, sustained over thousands of years and spread over the vast expanse of these sectors of Antarctica, corresponds to a very large gain of ice - enough to outweigh the losses from fast - flowing glaciers in other parts of the continent and reduce global sea level rise.

After a century of suppression, a photograph of the same area from 1981 (Figure 1D below) shows a vast expanse of interconnected forest with a high fuel load now dominating landscape and primed for a huge fire.

In fact, the combination of a powerful El Niño event and the sudden re-emergence of accumulated heat from the tropical West Pacific has created unprecedented warmth over a vast expanse of ocean, stretching thousands of miles from coastal Peru to the Gulf of Alaska.

From British Columbia to the Maritime Islands and across the Yukon tundra, Canada's landscape of glacial expanses, Boreal forest, and spooky badlands cover vast protected wilderness.

However, one highly important deciduous species — quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), which turns brilliant yellow — forms groves that range in size from a few trees to vast forested expanses, typically on mid to high elevation mountain slopes with decent groundwater supply through the summer.

Or we can go on depleting falling aquifers in the SW to grow produce that gets shipped 1,300 miles to an energy sinkhole of a grocery store that we have to drive to and from in our energy hogging SUV... in between watering, fertilizing, fungiciding, and pesticiding our vast expanses of sexless, deathless lawns.

Untouched, unknown and ripe for discovery, Malawi offers sprawling, wildlife - rich national parks that make for the perfect safari away from the crowds, while the vast expanse of Lake Malawi is the perfect beach retreat with its endless white - sand coastlines and crystal clear waters perfect for snorkelling.