Sentences with phrase «as a desert island»

Each archipelago have different types of environments, such as a desert island or a snow covered island, but as I stated, many of the features on these islands will be the same.

Stumbling across Hyrule's more quirky denizens is wondrous, and finding peculiar challenges — such as a desert island that puts you into a Lost - style survival challenge — never fails to put a smile on your face.

Not exact matches

CB: Seeing as there's no desert island or Snooki, why do you think people will enjoy watching a reality show about business?

No wonder East Coast veggie guru «Produce Pete» Napolitano chooses it as the one food he'd want if stranded on a desert island.

I just think a mom should parent as if she were on a deserted island, and make her choices based on what she feels is best for her child.

I assume that, as in Desert Island Discs, The Bible and Shakespeare are already waiting under the palm trees.

It comes after Ed Miliband picked Robbie Williams» Angels and A-ha's Take On Me as part of his selection on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

During my summers in medical school, I worked as a research assistant at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salisbury Cove, Maine.

By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.

«It's like a boatload of people landing on a desert island as opposed to one person.»

Pera expects to collaborate with JAX colleagues at both the Bar Harbor campus and the JAX Genomic Medicine campus in Farmington, Conn., as well as with scientists at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) in Bar Harbor.

George Dorr, one of the park's founders, envisioned Mount Desert Island as a summer home for scientists to work «on a fresh field of life, bird or plant or animal.»

MAC Fluidline I think I would bring this as my one beauty item on a desert island!

The Sacramento Mountains are seen as an «island in the sky,» a refuge of forest land in the otherwise harsh southern New Mexico desert.

From the crystalline shores of a deserted island to the green grass and dusty roads of 1940s suburban America, Ballard and director of photography Caleb Deschanel create a film of consistent visual invention and purity, one that also features a winning supporting performance by Mickey Rooney as a retired jockey and a gorgeous score by Carmine Coppola.

He puts up with the name - calling (Pee - Pee, Guido, and other racist pejoratives) until, through circumstances so contrived they qualify as science - fiction, he is shipwrecked with her on a deserted island.

Chipwrecked, as the punny subtitle implies, finds the gang stranded on a desert island.

When Ellis and his best friend, Neckbone (Jacob Lofland, totally convincing as a sweet kid acting tough), take a risky trip to a deserted island, they find Mud hiding out and begin helping him, though they're not sure whether they should trust this magical, murderous man.

Not since the Swiss Family Robinson shipwrecked on a deserted isle has the South Seas offered so much family friendly adventure as Nim's Island.

In Desert Island Escape, make use of each animal's different skills, find materials and evade enemies on dozens of islands as you attempt to construct a raft and float to safety within seven days.

Using «Robinson Crusoe» as a starting point, this soulful and meditative tale about a shipwrecked man who washes up on a deserted island tackles some big themes like man vs. nature and the circle of life.

It's simple tale of a man stranded on a deserted island — and the red turtle that destroys his raft every time he tries to leave — has been hailed as a masterpiece at film festivals around the world.

After summoning him into the game with his amiibo through the Wisp, players can visit him in the campground in order to get new items, take photos with him with the amiibo camera, and use him as a character in Desert Island Escape.

Doubling as an effective romance, Zemeckis story of Hanks's FedEx worker Chuck Noland becoming stranded on a deserted Pacific Ocean island after a plane crash, driven to survive by the thought of returning to his girlfriend Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) is one of the director's most restrained (even the music cues by Alan Silvestri don't start till over an hour into the film) and in - command pieces of work that sees the esteemed filmmaker largely hold back on artistic flashes and instead focusing on his leading man Hanks working his magic as the determined Chuck.

Release date: TBD Cast: Ray Stevenson, David Oakes, Aura Garrido Director: Xavier Gens (Frontiere (s)-RRB- Why it's great: Fans of The Shape of Water may want to keep an eye out for this tale of a meteorologist who travels to an isolated, deserted island for research, only to discover a Lovecraftian creature who's not quite as dangerous as she looks.

10:45 pm — TCM — The Black Stallion I wouldn't dare to guess how many times I saw this movie as a horse - crazy kid, but I would dare argue that its central section with its almost total lack of dialogue as Alec and The Black get to know each other while shipwrecked on a deserted island is still among my favorite sections in any family movie.

As Stan and Danny search for Richie in a nearly deserted Coney Island in the dead of winter, flashbacks illustrate disappointments in their lives that led to their current dissatisfaction and unhappiness.

The film takes us on Louise's journey as she misses a train and finds herself stranded on a deserted island and must fend for herself.

Unless I was stranded on a deserted island with you as my only companion, only then would I take that way out

While the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot was set entirely on one island, this sequel will contain at least two different locations with one being Siberia, but deserts and forests have been teased as well.

Bow selector: Alicia Vikander leads this gritty reboot of the video game franchise as a young Lara Croft improvising weapons and fighting for survival on a desert island.

Fill in your map as you chart a range of environments, from lush jungle to arid desert or icy tundra, there are millions of different islands to discover.

In 1949 Art and Nan Kellam set off to find their own isolated piece of paradise and eventually settled on a 550 - acre island known as Placentia, near Mount Desert Island, in island known as Placentia, near Mount Desert Island, in Island, in Maine.

And, of course, doing far more with books than just stuffing as many of them as possible into a suitcase and bringing them to a deserted island.

I love some of the fresh questions in this one, including, «Name six people, dead or alive, you'd love to have as guests around your dinner table» and «What three books would you want to take with you if you were stranded on a desert island?»

In 1949 Art and Nan Kellam set off to find their own isolated piece of paradise and eventually settled on a 550 - acre island known as Placentia, near Mount Desert Island, island known as Placentia, near Mount Desert Island, Island, Maine.

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Of course, when your precious little furball is howling, whining and generally acting as though you've abandoned him on a desert island, it's difficult NOT to feel upset and worried.

Imagine waking up on this tropical deserted island in the Caribbean and watching the sunrise as you kitesurf in empty butter flat turquoise waters.

In just over an hour you'll be swimming in water as smooth and clear as glass, exploring deserted beaches that ring the entire island and feasting on fresh seafood before retiring to a hammock strung between palms.

This town has nearly as many ghost stories as there are coves around Mount Desert Island.

• Amazon cruise: Take an intimate river cruise • Atacama Desert, Chile: Hike the salt flats and volcanoes • Buenos Aires: Try a tango class • Easter Island: See the mysterious statues • Galápagos Islands: Spot Darwin's finches and other wildlife • Iguazú Falls, Brazil: Stay at Hotel das Cataratas by the thundering falls • Machu Picchu: Enter the citadel as the Incas did through Sun Gate • Mayan sites: Take an archaeologist - led tour • Mexico City: See Diego Rivera's murals at the Palacio Nacional • Oaxaca, Mexico: Enjoy Slow Food dishes at La Biznaga • Patagonia, Argentina: Admire the Perito Moreno Glacier • Rio de Janeiro: Go on a helicopter ride over the city • Salvador de Bahia, Brazil: Take in the festival atmosphere of Old Town

On Little Corn — aptly named as you can cross the entire island from east to west on foot in about 15 minutes — you'll find a true deserted island experience.

With reasonably priced accommodation in places like the newly opened Begadang Backpackers, as well as easy access to dive sites around Gili Trawangan and Gili Meno, you couldn't ask for much more from a desert island.

Upon entering the Broken Group Islands section of Pacific Rim National Park, our journey takes us past deserted beaches and unspoiled scenery as we wind our way through the sheltered waters of these iIslands section of Pacific Rim National Park, our journey takes us past deserted beaches and unspoiled scenery as we wind our way through the sheltered waters of these islandsislands.

By night we'd moor at a desert island and cook up the fish on a fire as we watch the sun set.

Very relaxing holidays in a beautiful location - when watching out of the back of the house, we felt as being on a desert island with the birds as neighbors.

Heading south from Burnaby Island, we cross Skincuttle Inlet, and pass the abandoned Haida village of Haigi, long since deserted as a result of a smallpox epidemic.

Renowned fishing spots include: The south west point of Lombok, towards Bangko - bangko (Desert Point); opposite Nusa Penida (Bali) which is recommended as one of the best for trolling and deep fishing; North West of Lombok, close to the Gili Islands (Trawangan, Meno, Air) which is a spot known by the locals as takat (sea wall) and is great for both trolling and deep fishing.

When we planned our trip to Peru, hiking the Inca Trail was on our itinerary, as well as exploring the cities of Cusco and Arequipa, a foray into the Amazon Jungle, some sand boarding in the desert oasis of Huacachina, and a bit of island hopping on Lake Titicaca.