Sentences with phrase «ravaged landscape»

One of the better two - character dramas in recent years, this David Gordon Green film revealed unexpected sides of stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, and used its gorgeous, often ravaged landscapes for metaphorical effect without making too big a deal of it.

Take no prisoners as you traverse and explore this war ravaged landscape.

Frequently missiles and bombs, bloodied bodies, and ravaged landscapes referenced the «collateral damage» that results from war.

God is determined to see a living organism flourish and grow on the ravaged landscape of a sinful world, until it can become a source of healing for all the nations (Rev. 22:2).

Kulik interpreted this ravaged landscape as the aftermath of an impact of an iron meteorite.

«Faced with limited options in a ravaged landscape,» James says, «many people living within the creeks of the Niger Delta are risking everything, including the future of the river upon which their lives depend, to survive.»

Surveying the ravaged landscape of the Detroit area — which could be a stand - in for post-Katrina New Orleans, or any other condemned, jobless American blight — Gosling turns common underclass desperation and exploitation into the stuff of nightmares.

Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind.

Searching for a home in a ravaged landscape, two star - crossed lovers flee a ruthless band of bounty hunters, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to Sherman's March through Georgia in the final years of the Civil War.

Dramatic and thrillingly written with an uncanny eye for glimpses of beauty in a ravaged landscape, Fallen Land is a love story at its core, and an unusually assured first novel by award - winning young author Taylor Brown.

You'll need to face all that to survive in this nuclear war - ravaged landscape.

Despite the ravaged landscape setting of the game, composer Inon Zur wanted to create moments of hope with his score.

Using her personal and often fanciful touch to alter images of ravaged landscapes, Bhabha inserts a human presence into these bleak, abandoned scenes.

Set in the ravaged landscape south of Johannesburg, the films depict the ongoing racial inequalities of contemporary life, while also reflecting on the human condition — the psychological traumas that remain as vestiges of South Africa's devastating sociopolitical past.

Designed as a total environment, The European Desktop addresses the headline's unfounded optimism by immersing viewers in a ravaged landscape of intellectual chaos: a monumental collapsed European postal scale, stamp blotters, a writing quill, an exploding ink bottle, and a shattered desk pad will be strewn across the gallery, appearing as though they have fallen from the sky.

Best known for his evocative paintings of war - ravaged landscapes and his quasi-Surrealist visions of the English countryside, Nash was also a consummate photographer, who believed that the camera could reveal aspects of the world that the painter could not.

Himself an avid collector of the art of the street, specifically graffiti, Wong's paintings depict the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its largely Puerto Rican community after a notorious period of federal neglect and social destruction.

«Environment and Object — Recent African Art» at the Tang features the work of contemporary African artists who focus on the environment, through such means as photography of ravaged landscapes or sculpture crafted from objects found in abandoned junk.

In a Phillips press release issued in advance of the auction, the painting was promoted as one of the «leading highlights» of the sale and described thus: «The surface is a huge and ravaged landscape, tired, attacked, bleached and scoured, but fluorescent hints of sub-tectonic vibrancy shine through: erasure results in new opportunities.»