Sentences with phrase «desert outpost»

After artist Donald Judd moved to Marfa, Texas in 1971, he quickly transformed the cow - town into the art world's desert outpost, much to the chagrin of some locals.

At any rate, I can confirm I haven't had a restock of arrows anywhere... Although I haven't checked the desert outpost since they only sell one arrow at a time.

Return to the desert outpost of Zagora, where we'll attend a talk on the history of the Drâa region and visit nearby historical sites.

The same article quoted Col. James Cluff, the commander of the Air Force's 432nd Wing, which runs drone operations from a desert outpost about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas: «Having our folks make that mental shift every day, driving into the gate and thinking, «All right, I've got my war face on, and I'm going to the fight,» and then driving out of the gate and stopping at Walmart to pick up a carton of milk or going to the soccer game on the way home — and the fact that you can't talk about most of what you do at home — all those stressors together are what is putting pressure on the family, putting pressure on the airman.»

Though the two men fight with a shared purpose, the only potent comparisons Heineman finds among the groups seem incidental: The Autodefensas struggle to follow a just path in the thick of a hothouse of grieving families and turncoat soldiers, while Arizona Border Recon, isolated in a desert outpost, are left alone to stew, relatively undisturbed, in their boilerplate conservative dogma.

But things go from bad to off - the - rails berserk when she and her captors wind up on the sun - baked desert outpost of a deranged ex-military sniper (Pat Healy), who ensnares them in his deadly game of cat and mouse.

Just as they think they are safe they end up at the desert outpost of a deranged ex-military sniper.

It loosely expands on a short film she made, centering on three bored women in a remote desert outpost, in a low - key, smart and authentic manner.

New vehicles, weapons and abilities and the oft - unexplored setting of World War I, spanning the historical trenches, burnt out cities and desert outposts, help to foster experimentation with weapons and positioning.

Not exact matches

Ten years ago, the village of Tulum, a two - hour drive south from Cancun, was little more than a scruffy outpost nestled into an otherwise deserted strip of sand and jungle.

Animators used Zeno rigid - body solver software written by ILM developers to film a major scene early in the movie in which an enemy Transformer called Scorponok attacks a U.S. military outpost in the desert.

There are five levels playable thus far, ranging from a courtyard in a city to an outpost in a desert where you will be bombed randomly, and each has it's own soundtrack that blends smoothly with the frantic action.

A satisfyingly tense desert - island thriller — just without the desert island — the action this time around is set at a Norwegian outpost (the one referenced by the guys at the U.S. - run Antarctic outpost at the beginning of Carpenter's film).

Rango Starring the voice talent of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher and Ned Beatty Directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) Rated PG for rude humor, language, action and smoking Appropriate for ages 8 + When an eccentric pet chameleon separates from his owner and finds himself stranded in the desert, he winds up in the town of Dirt, a rundown Wild West outpost with a water shortage and no sheriff.

From an initial vehicle assault on a military outpost the war winds through streets of a deserted town to an intense final fire - fight in an industrial harbor.

They also have a son, Jonathan (Yonaton Shiray), who is a Staff Sergeant serving at a remote border outpost located somewhere in the Sinai desert.

Starting in the deserts of Afghanistan and later the African savannah, The Phantom Pain is made up of two significant maps teeming with outposts, enemies, and secrets to find.

The road that leads to the desert town of Erfoud passes through the Rif Mountains before descending toward Errachidia, a former Foreign Legion outpost that sits on the edge of the desert plain.

But it is the beautifully evoked landscape and the portrayal of a gloomy outpost on the edge of a desert that are the stars of the show.»

Take in dramatic desert landscapes on our drive to the outpost town of Sesriem.

Rocky outposts, rivers and forests also add a natural beauty to the plains and deserts.

Lestallum honestly isn't all that great, but it has a feeling of activity not found on the sleepy roadside outposts of the deserts or forests to its east.

Mildred's Lane is founded in the spirit of other contemporary and historical outpost projects such as Olafur Eliason's Laboratory, Andrea Zittell's High Desert Test Sites, Rirkrit Tiravanija's The Land, Black Mountain College, and Donald Judd's Marfa, TX.

Their cities, suburban towns, outposts, road networks, canals, and irrigation projects attest to their large and civilized (meaning agricultural) populations far in excess per square mile than your average hunter - gatherer cultures and their 1 person per square mile population densities spanning the most forbidding deserts, steppes, mountains, and jungles.

Only 20 years ago, Dubai was a desert - trading outpost.