Sentences with phrase «sleepy hamlet»

The quaint mountain villages of Montville and Maleny atop the escarpment of the Blackall Ranges are sleepy hamlets where a culture of coffee houses, country pubs, cosy restaurants, art and antique galleries and craft studios thrives.

With about 2,000 or so permanent residents in each town, many people assume that these are small, sleepy hamlets without much to offer.

Synopsis: On the eastern edge of Bulgaria, bordering Turkey, amid wizened orchards and an ancient patchwork of farmlands, sits a poor and sleepy hamlet that time seems to have forgotten.

For on the fringes of this sleepy hamlet, the morning train soon steams into view, carrying two black - clad Orthodox Jews — a white - bearded elder in a knee - length overcoat and round, broad - brimmed hat, and his stubbled son in a too - tight suit and poor - boy's cap.

Telling the story of a young pig tasked with the upkeep of a windmill perched at the top of a dizzyingly high dam over a sleepy hamlet, the only defense mechanism that holds back a suffocating cloud of black ash from taking over the town, it is a film about the cruelty of bullies and being forced to grow up too soon, exceedingly dark and moody in its charcoal - y art style.

A mystery puzzle box thriller doused in mood and dread, the film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness seems supernaturally linked to everything going to hell in a handbasket.

His stores of purpose refilled, Gary sets about embarking his old comrades — played by customary partner Nick Frost, as well as Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan — aboard his ferry to regression: They will return to Newton Haven, the sleepy hamlet of their youth, and attempt the Golden Mile again, this time refusing to give up «until the bitter — or lager — end.»

In 1958, close to 300 Series I Land Rovers were brought to the sleepy hamlet of Maneybhanjang and these helped transport people and essential commodities up and down the treacherous route.

As I describe it in the epilogue, it is fair to say that «The Andy Griffith Show» is supposedly about the «American normal,» Mayberry being a sleepy hamlet, an Arcadia where no trouble is too big for the amiable sheriff and his bungling deputy.

We had planned to hike to Thorsmörk on the popular 16 - mile trail from Skógar, a sleepy hamlet known for its 200 - foot - high waterfall.

(September 25, 2000) White smokestack soaring into the air and steel pipelines gleaming in the sun, a fertilizer plant near the sleepy hamlet of Carseland is the unlikely battle site in a prolonged war whose eventual victor is still unclear.