Sentences with phrase «desolate cities»

But this counsel is linked with an eschatological promise that their descendants shall «people the desolate cities.

Set during the early 1990s, Snow takes place mostly in Kars, a desolate city in eastern Turkey.

My stomach churned with the kind of fear you get after turning down a desolate city street late at night, uncertainty and desperation pulsing through your veins.

Most of the dungeons look similar - a desolate city street or an abandoned subway station filled with demons that need taking out.

The film centers on a group of friends who become stranded in an eerie and desolate city.

Upon entering the desolate city of Undercity in World of Warcraft, you're immediately surrounded by all things deceased, decayed, and otherwise just plain disgusting.

Ubisoft describes the plot of the game: One year after, a worldwide cataclysmic event that wiped most of the human race, a man struggles for survival in a desolate city as he tries to reunite with his long lost wife and daughter.

It's a dark and sorrowing tale about a desolate city of zombie people.

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And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Your country is desolate; Your cities are burned with fire; Your land, strangers devour it in your presence, And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

7 Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

Moreover, much of the transferred land was desolate and uninhabitable, and many of the Mexicans living in the useful territory were deeply estranged from Mex - ico City and grateful for their incorporation into the United States.

7 [Because of your detestable disobedience] your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land — strangers devour it in your very presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

And then, in order, Philistia (four of the five major Philistine cities are named), Moab and Ammon, and Ethiopia are all denounced in bitterest terms, capped with this superbly articulated description of desolate Nineveh:

From the most desolate roads in Australia to the busy, bustling streets of New York City.

During this seemingly simple ride through an abandoned city, Fresnadillo oh - so - slightly plays with your nerves, alternating between tight close ups on the kids and wide shots showing the desolate state of the area, utilizing every other perspective as a shot through the eyes of a rage - victim just ready to pounce.

It stars Sheila Vand as an enigmatic, hijab wearing vampire who, while stalking the mean streets of desolate Iranian town Bad City, makes a connection with fellow lost soul Arash (Arash Marandi) a young man who dreams of escaping the harsh confines of his life.

Set in the desolate towns, cities, and farms of Montana, the film yields a quiet, sneaking, cumulative power as these women try and, more often than not, fail to forge connections in awkward, sometimes desperate yet naturalistic circumstances.

««Blade Runner 2049» is filled with mind - blowing images, with cinematographer Roger Deakins and production designer Dennis Gassner giving us frame after frame of impossible, forbidding beauty: Overhead shots of a gray, cluttered Los Angeles skyline, with brief, mysterious glimmers of those iconic neon screens below; desolate, dust - blasted orange wastelands; abandoned cities stacked with ornate, neoclassical ruins; even, yes, snow.

The empty streets of New York City and lonely hallways of the house look even more desolate without color.

The reader touches, feels, hears, tastes and sees the Middle East and North Africa as it really is: cosmopolitan cities, villages, towns, desolate mountains and deserts.

Freo — as Fremantle is referred to — with its ubiquitous franchises and cappuccino bars, could be a stand - in for just about any major city in the developed world: «In the seventies the Strip had been a beacon of homely cosmopolitanism, a refuge from the desolate franchise dispensation stretching from sea to hazy hills,» Winton points out.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century the Mexican government — in eternal social and financial turmoil — started selling off vast tracts of land in its desolate northern provinces on the notion that wealthy American entrepreneurs would exploit the land by building infrastructure that the government in Mexico City could not afford.

Streets and highways appeared as desolate as auto junkyards and major cities became mausoleums of the millions who died from sarin gas bombings.Foreign superpowers rose up while our nation's leaders fought amongst themselves.

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Known as the Cape of Good Hope the scenery, fantastic walks, incredible bird watching opportunities, and often desolate beaches, make this one of the most beautiful destinations of the city's Big 7.

Epic Sci - Fi Setting — Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos; then tear through the fully destructible open - world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.

The details in the visual and structural design of the levels make London feel like a city that is dead, inactive, desolated and dormant, but that contains life that prefers to go unnoticed and plenty of remains of what it used to be before the outbreak.

A post-apocalyptic London has been overrun by hordes of terrifying demons, leaving the city desolate and scorched by hellfire.

Throughout their fight for freedom, players carve their own path, wreaking havoc across the vast, open - world environment of Mars, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos.

Kick wakes up in what looks to be a desolate and destroyed city void of any other human life but filled with danger.

Even White Orchard, essentially just a tutorial area, felt delightfully large only to pale in comparison to the desolate quagmires of Velen and the hustle and bustle of the free city of Novigrad.

In an effort to preserve performance, the Vita version's rendition of Fairhaven is mostly devoid of civilian traffic clogging up the streets — cruise down the desolate streets and you'd be forgiven for thinking you've entered a ghost town, in a city that already felt lifeless on home console.

Leverage fully - dynamic physics - based destruction to improvise on the fly: blow holes in a wall or floor to set an ambush or escape, take out a staircase to stop your pursuers, or drive vehicles through blown out walls.; Evolving & Emergent Gameplay - Carve your path through an ever changing landscape as you improvise your combat tactics - mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives to defeat the EDF.; Epic Sci - Fi Setting - Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos; then tear through the fully destructible open - world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.; Multiplayer Combat - There is no place to hide when you put your guerrilla warfare skills to the test in a variety of highly destructive multiplayer combat modes.

Training his lens primarily on skeletal, starving dogs in the desolate and dusty village with intermittent scenes of country folk wrapped in scarves and puffy coats, East of Que Village meditates on the most trying of environments that continue to exist beyond the fringes of the bustling metropolitan cities where most of Yang's work is set.

«That Rothko's images possess a distopian air during a post-utopian era of economic decline does require us to account for them in relation to the desolate culture of the urban scene, a conception of the city that is often expressed in turn as the experience of a peculiar space.

In the photography series Misplaced, interactive designer Anton Repponen takes iconic New York City buildings and landmarks and situates them in desolate environments.

Made at bus stops throughout the city, the large - scale black and white photographs capture the isolation of the urban metropolis through formally composed and carefully detailed views of desolate boulevards disappearing into the horizon, peopled only by the Los Angeles underclass waiting for the next bus.

His intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami, New York, and the Middle East feature rectilinear overlays of strong, intensely moody colors that integrate multiple allusions to reason and its traditions — the ideal planned - city street grid; the Golden Ratio and its long history as a supposedly true and self - evident compositional principle; the sharp - edged, no - nonsense Bauhaus aesthetic — with subtle references to the small flashes of vitality and inspiration that lurk within even the most drab and desolate environments.

It made the case against the utopian planning culture of the times — residential high - rise development, expressways through city hearts, slum clearances, and desolate downtowns.

The roof garden at Toronto's City Hall had formerly been an abandoned and desolate space around a podium.

This city is so nice and small, beautiful and old, fresh and smart, provincial and quiet, green and festive, noisy, vibrant and wild, desolate and boring.

It was just four days in a city where I'd lived for two years, but I felt desolate at the thought of doing it alone.