Sentences with phrase «flatland of»

It was running 34 mpg across the flatland of Wisconsin for me.
It is, in the mind of Father Gilvary, the only priest in Durance, «the flatland of time... the time between the Times.»
The elements of «Hell or High Water» sound familiar — a pair of bank - robbing brothers, a detective working his last case before retirement, the mean flatlands of West Texas — but the film turns out to be something different, an urgent and dynamic drama told in a low, measured cadence.
After Del's ancient truck breaks down, cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck («A War») keeps us close to the sagebrush and flatlands of Eastern Oregon as the boy and his horse (to whom he confides his innermost thoughts) travel together on foot, coming into contact with both the hard working underclass of American society and the dregs who prey on the innocent and trusting.
At some points it's a single - lane sluggard, oozing through grimy bits of London, at other times it's an eight - lane superhighway thundering across the flatlands of Cambridgeshire.
To its west are the Bellarine Hills and the flatlands of the Bellarine Peninsula, the starting point for the Great Ocean Road and its scenic drive of a lifetime.
Gaming from the swampy flatlands of Florida since 1989, Alex D'Alessandro is always looking for a way to stay inside and escape the southern heat.
Clyfford Still, for instance, formulated his jagged forms as uprights in order to anchor color fields that were directly inspired by the vast flatlands of the Canadian prairies.
In Oakland, these disastrous consequences will disproportionately impact and endanger the lives and property of African American, Hispanic and other people of color as well as low income populations who reside in West Oakland and the flatlands of East Oakland.
Take your pick of the rolling hills of the upper peninsula or the flatlands of the southern portion of the state.
But average work ethic doesn't cut it growing up on a small farm in the flatlands of Kansas.

Not exact matches

Cushing, Okla., a sleepy town of 8,300 — which sits well off the interstate between Oklahoma City and Tulsa in a scrubby flatland — is best known for the vast farms of oil storage tanks that ring its southern flank.
In May, those beats only included a handful in East Oakland but have now been expanded to areas of West Oakland, Fruitvale and other parts of East Oakland, all in the city's flatlands.
Raised in the pampas (flatlands) south of Buenos Aires, Marcelo Doffo migrated to the U.S. in 1975.
It then spills rocks of all sizes onto the flatlands near the farm towns of Greenfield and Soledad.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE — Depending on the generosity of the state, Elk Grove Village skateboarders will be trading flatland for half - pipes by next summer.
Depending on the generosity of the state, Elk Grove Village skateboarders will be trading flatland for half - pipes by next summer.
New York Daily News article on Borough President Adams meeting with FDNY firefighter Raheem Hassan following years of abuse and hazing by fellow firefighters at Engine 309 in Flatlands.
Brooklyn Paper article on BP Adams congratulating local winners of the Pulitzer Prize, including Boerum Hill playwright Lynn Nottage, Flatlands poet Tyehimba Jess, and Fort Greene author Colson Whitehead.
Brooklyn Daily article on BP Adams announcing $ 1 million from Brooklyn Borough Hall for the rehabilitation of Jacob Joffe Park in Flatlands.
She represents the 41st Assembly District encompassing parts of Flatbush, Flatlands and Sheepshead Bay and chairs the Ways and Means Committee.
City Councilman Jumaane Williams — who represents Flatbush, East Flatbush, Flatlands, as well as parts of Canarsie and Midwood in Brooklyn — also entered the fray in defense of Quinn.
Councilman Jumaane D. Williams represents the 45th Council District in Brooklyn (Flatbush, East Flatbush, Flatlands, Midwood, Canarsie) announced he is throwing his hat into the race for New York State Lieutenant Governors, Friday, February 16th, on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan.
A creature living in the «flatland» of the paper could also look around and see the same drawing, but only from the side, as a collection of lines lined up end to end.
From a distance of 550 kilometers, Rosetta's camera captured hints of cliffs, boulders and flatlands.
As expected, in the sloped environment, evolution favored a mixture of mostly droppers and collectors, but in the flatlands, where there is no advantage to dropping the block, the generalist strategy was more prevalent.
Mesquite bushes have migrated out from dry streambeds and the edges of dry lakes into the valley floor and flatlands.
A long, crescent - shaped lick of fertile flatlands that stretches more than 450 miles and covers 22,000 square miles (slightly smaller than West Virginia), the Central Valley is nestled between the coastal mountains on the west and the Sierra Nevada to the east.
Because climate shifts quickly with elevation, such variation is most often found in mountainous sites, he noted, adding that a few dozen meters of elevation shift can offer a change of climate equivalent to several hundred miles of flatland travel.
In contrast, this study draws attention to the high velocity of change in flatland areas.
ye names rosco love skateboarding have been skateing for past 18 years like doing freestyle flatland and street but do nt realy skate with anyone as shy / like going out to clubs concerts like all kinds of music the stoneroses ian browns new stuff kings leon have seen most great bands thats about it...
«Flatlands And The Flemish Roads» evokes feelings of motion, «Ode To Viennese Streets» a sense of relaxation, but strip away their titles and the concept evaporates, leaving a warm but undemanding album.
Enter Oakland SOL, a new dual - immersion middle school in the Flatlands section of Oakland, California — and the city school district's first new school in more than a decade.
More importantly, when you look below MacArthur Boulevard, which in some ways separates the privilege of the Hills from the grit of the Flatlands, the vast majority of top schools are remnants of the small schools movement.
He braked for a stoplight and cross traffic at the bottom of the hill, pulled around a pickup truck that was in his way, turned on his flashers, then raced across a stretch of flatland and under a highway overpass.
Accommodation Paulpietersburg Paulpietersburg is a small, pretty town nestling in the foothills of the Dumbe Mountain - a big, flat - topped, triangular mountain in the middle of flatlands territory, popular with paragliders and hikers and named after the wild dumbe fruit...
There is nothing quite like biking through Belgium's contrasting landscape of flatlands in Flanders and the rolling hills in French - speaking Wallonia.
With a tap of a button, the world rotates 90 or 180 degrees around the character, creating platforms out of chasms and cliffs out of flatlands.
HD includes the former, but the absence of the latter is a harsh reminder of how far the series has come — while features like getting off your board (TH Underground) and «nail the trick» (Project 8) were overkill, the loss of 3's reverts and 4's nifty flatland tricks makes HD's gameplay feel absolutely hamstrung by comparison.
Selected group exhibitions include ANIMALITY - A Fairy Story by Jens Hoffmann, Marian Goodman Gallery, London (2016); FADE IN: INT.ART GALLERY — DAY, Swiss Institute, New York (2016); A Shape That Stands Up, Hammer Museum (Off - Site), LA (2016); Flatlands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); Unorthodox, Jewish Museum, New York (2015 and Greater New York, MoMA PS1 (2015).
Looking at the Whitney's exhibitions of Laura Poitras and Andrea Fraser alongside Flatlands, a group show of five emerging painters, and Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, this course will explore the intersections of these apparently divergent concerns and consider the ways that contemporary art truly can and does matter.
Both of these artists are included in a new exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art Flatlands organized by curators Elisabeth Sherman and Laura Phipps.
«Flatlands» continues through April 17 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan; 212-570-3600, whitney­.org.
His Greenberg is a gothic villain attempting to push a woman out of this dimension into flatland.
Trisha Baga supplies 3D glasses for Flatlands, a scenic tour of life forms and mirrored surfaces.
FLATLAND is proud to be one of the exciting participants of the art fair Photo Basel.
However, «Flatlands,» a tight selection of millennial painters, toys with an alternate definition of flatness as an expression of 21st century anomie, conjuring «a sense of space that is dimensionless and airless.»
Batchelor's recent exhibitions include: David Batchelor: Flatlands, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and Spike Island, Bristol (2013 - 2014); House 2012, The Regency Town House, Hove, UK and Slugfest, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2012); 2D3D: David Batchelor, Karsten Schubert, London, (2011); Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2011); Gravity's Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery (2011); Chromophilia, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010).
She is the author of several books including Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (2000), Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant - garde (2002), Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (2006), and Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (2014).
Visitors experiencing «Flatlands» by Trisha Baga in «Dreamlands» at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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