Sentences with phrase «by swampland»

Gavin has returned to a town that's being encroached upon by swampland and hammered by the economic recession.

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Last September, zoologist Marcelo Sánchez - Villagra of the University of Tübingen in Germany unveiled the «exceptionally complete skeleton» of an 8 - million - year - old swampland forager that was by far the largest rodent ever known: roughly nine feet long and more than 1,500 pounds.

Throughout the film, Sorrentino packs in numerous surrealistic touches, from the sight of a nun buried up to her neck in sand (accompanied by an aural assault on the soundtrack) to a grotesque glimpse of Rizzo with a potato poultice around his head to the jarring sight of Geremia's village, built by Mussolini on an Italian swampland.

Plot: Lena (Natalie Portman), a cellular biologist and former soldier, joins an expedition to uncover what happened to her husband Kane (Oscar Issac) who disappeared during a mission inside Area X - a swampland across the Florida coastline that was hit by a meteor and is now a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that blocks all contact with the outside world.

Kane slips into a coma and the pair are taken to a military compound in Florida where Lena discovers he was part of a team sent to investigate «Area X» — an expanding region of swampland surrounded by visible «shimmer».

That unknown lurks in the darkness of the vast swamplands and marshes of the Southern Reach, marked by the beauty and horrors of nature run amok, and perhaps more disturbingly in the disquiet of confronting those same mysteries within oneself.

more than 50 races, and 10 scenic environments inspired by real - life locations (Amazon River, Mediterranean coastline, mangrove swamplands, warm tropics, and more)

Brett Ratner pushes the pace of his story at quite a fine rate as we move along a series of spectacularly scenic action set pieces including grassy battlefields, murky swamplands, dank temples and vast, sweeping plains backed by towering majestic peaks.

The story centers around a new sheriff near the Southeast US swamplands, Kyle Williams, who was selected due to his youth and perceived inexperience, which will make the oil development by a greedy magnate named Schist (Jack Thompson, The Assassination of Richard Nixon) much easier.

Rice's film is a low - budget, low - concept psychological thriller about a Tampa, Fla., track star abducted by a pair of wealthy playboys, who force her to play the prey in a deadly hunt through the Florida woods and swamplands.

Plot: Lena (Natalie Portman), a cellular biologist and former soldier, joins an expedition to uncover what happened to her husband Kane (Oscar Issac) who disappeared during a mission inside Area X — a swampland across the Florida coastline that was hit by a meteor and is now a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that blocks all contact with the outside world.

The endangered swampland dwellers are supposed to be an indigenous pastoral community threatened by eco-unfriendly oil refineries.

Karen Russell's St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves was as creepy and magical as the title implies, collecting 10 eerie tales set in South Florida swampland.

About halfway between New York and Great Neck, just beneath Flushing Bay, stood the towering Corona Dumps, vast mountains of fuel ash that New York had been heaping on swampland beyond the city limits since 1895, in a landfill created by the construction of the Long Island Rail Road.

You'll make Abbot Kinney proud, after all he was a real estate developer and visionary who modeled Venice after Venice, Italy, dredging up swampland to become this beautiful city by the sea!