Sentences with phrase «desolate housing»

The son of surrealist artist Roberto Matta and a graduate of the Cornell School of Architecture, Matta - Clark took a guerrilla approach to both his work and his environs, perhaps best exemplified by Window Blowout (1976), a series of photos of desolate housing projects included in an exhibit at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in midtown.

A desolate house gives off a bad first impression.

Annabelle Creation movie review: The movie has a desolate house, orphans, nun, a mysterious woman behind a curtain, a forbidden door, a scarecrow, a barn, a basement, a chair lift, a lift hidden behind a wall, a well, and lots and lots of dolls.

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Finally, we remembered the Tamar of the Davidic narrative, whose rape in the king's house left her desolate and without a future.

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

«Your house,» he said, «is left to you, desolate» (Mall.

One must admit that the idea goes back to the words of Jesus himself, who taught that the owner of the vineyard would «give the vineyard to others» who received his son (Luke 20:16), and that Jerusalem's «house» would be left desolate (Luke 13:35).

If the house became defiled, Yahweh threatened to leave his house and his people desolate, and so again priests served Israel by serving Yahweh.

After sitting fallow for 43 years as the Lower East Side exploded in popularity around it, a desolate stretch of parking lots along Delancey Street is closer than ever to being transformed into housing and shops, potentially marking the end of a long and bitter stalemate over the future of the sites.

Owned by a man and his daughter, the weary steed charges along through the plains during a violent wind storm, carrying said man to the location we'll spend the rest of the movie trapped in — a dark, empty house on a desolate farmland.

Her identity crisis is spurred on by the static nature of her life: her desolate, though perfectly decorated house, her robotic relationship with her husband, the empty conversations with insipid friends.

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

He said that seeing his family that summer — mired in a desolate world of crime, drugs, and unemployment — made him realize «the type of life that I want isn't one spent in the basement of my mother's house with kids I can't support and an education that would leave me unqualified to even be a manager at McDonald's.»

Bite off the job of changing the world and this is where you find yourself: driving on a desolate Oklahoma road, past chicken farms and trailers, turning onto a muddy lane, and stopping in the ruts outside a ramshackle old house where a lazy black dog watches over the littered yard.

But his attention is also drawn to a desolate, abandoned house — the Grief Cottage, where an adolescent boy and his parents vanished during a hurricane half a century before.

Visitors can tour the abandoned houses, deserted skittle - alleys and desolate ballrooms.

«The once desolate desert lands of Las Vegas are now heaving with swanky hotels, vast casinos and millions of tourists dreaming of making it big, forgetting the key rule that the house always wins.

Her staging in desolated rooms, the ghostly body presence in the middle of spaces in decay, of houses on the threshold of demolition outreached the pure self - portrait genre.

Desolate landscapes, decrepit houses, and incongruous moments of glory come together to suggest the presence of a narrative that exists as much in the viewer's mind as in the painting.

We see the desolate traces of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, jerry - built bus stops marooned in the Armenian wilderness and, most fascinatingly of all, the stations of the defunct Hejaz railway line in the Saudi Arabian desert, looking for all the world like ancient mausolea or charnel houses.

From abandoned houses to desolate churches, empty and decaying places catch our attention because of the eerie mystery surrounding them.

In preparation for the new, wider steps, we recently pulled out and relocated some shrubs, and now the front of our house looks pretty desolate.