Sentences with phrase «sparse landscape»

It was a ritualistic offering inspired by the sparse landscape and vegetation found underneath the bridge.

The Diamond genesis was somehow already inherent in that sparse landscape.

In the monumental 1965 triptych Green Separate by Robert Dash (1931 — 2013), who painted for decades at his home in Sagaponack, the woody earthiness of tree trunks and roots dominate a sparse landscape.

Iceland's sparse landscape that teams with life under the surface is ripe for magic old and new.

What does the book's sparse landscape and living on the edge of a forceful sea say about our time here on Earth?

Taymor utilizes the sparse landscape of her volcanic Hawaiian milieu in a powerful manner, yet at times the set looks blatantly fake and low - budget.

Hsieh had also started planning the Downtown Project, his ambitious plan to reimagine a sparse landscape as a city bristling with entrepreneurial energy.

The result is pictures with elusive narratives, in which isolated figures and sparse landscapes are given equal weight as the abstract, painterly background.

Not exact matches

The Canadian tech landscape without Research In Motion — or with a drastically scaled - down version of the company — is a fairly sparse place.

The history of the Baja is almost as sparse as some of the landscape.

Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity.

In this sparse, sometimes snowy landscape, the lanky and ginger - colored wolves (Canis simensis) reign as the region's apex predators...

Millennium is the place to start, whether you are looking for a sparse American landscape or life through a child's eye.

In the comedy department, The Big White is as frigid and sparse as the Alaskan landscape it takes place in.

One of my favorites, Battle Royale Island by BloodNoskie, is a surreal and sparse pink landscape built around a floating cornucopia of ammunition and a circle of towering goddess statues.

In 1999 the supercar landscape was pretty sparse.

We hummed along in silence for maybe half an hour, the sparse ghosts of small houses sliding by out in the landscape; then the Pontiac slowed and rattled over a low bridge into a town square.

From the sparse natural scenery of the Mojave Desert to the bustling metropolis of New York, the USA is a vast land where the people are as diverse as the landscape.

Sparse desert landscapes contrast with oasis towns and striking coastline to create an epic backdrop on a Namibia train holiday.

Day 2: Chancachuco We climb gradually through fields and glades of the indigenous Chachacomo tree, in a landscape of sparse pastures and small fields supported by terraced walls on the steep mountainsides.

In the once seemingly sparse third party Wii landscape more and more of these deadly hits continue to emerge and sink their fangs into unsuspecting gamers.

Together, they present a sparse and vast landscape dotted by human intervention that is distinctly American.

Then again, his early landscapes could be remarkably sparse, like Turner's unfinished compositions.

Chinese landscape painting was revitalized at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, when artists began creating landscapes in a sparse monochromatic style - not so much to reproduce the true reality of the scenery but in order to grasp the atmosphere or mood of the location.

A low - density inhabitant of desert landscapes with sparse shrubs or trees, the Bendire's Thrasher is secretive and little studied.

Boreal forests appear susceptible to rapid transition to sparse woodland or treeless landscapes as temperature and precipitation patterns shift (Scheffer et al., 2012b).

The intricate but sparse sonic landscape of Gravity, Godzilla's guttural roar, the rain - soaked urban jungle of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes... all of these have benefitted from the Dolby Atmos Cinema Processor and its support of up to 128 discrete audio tracks.