Sentences with phrase «provincial town into»

Over the past half century, the nation's capital, Ankara, has transformed from a sleepy provincial town into a cosmopolitan city, while Istanbul, long a sophisticated tourist mecca and industrial center, has grown into a megacity of 20 million situated at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.

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The 10 - episode drama stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant and complicated founder and chief programmer of Westworld; Ed Harris as the Man in Black, characterized as» the distillation of pure villainy into one man»; Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, a provincial and kind rancher's daughter who begins to discover her entire existence is an elaborately constructed lie; James Marsden as Teddy Flood, a new arrival to a small frontier town; Thandie Newton as the razor - sharp madam Maeve Millay; Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head of the park's programming division; and Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, a mysterious and savvy provocateur.

During Saleema's childhood twenty years later the village was gradually being absorbed into the slums cast off by an adjacent provincial town called Kotla Sardar.

This late Hungarian novelist wrote historical fiction rooted in the politics, manners, and events of the old Austro - Hungarian Empire; the third of his splendid novels to be translated into English is set in a provincial Hungarian town during World War I.