Sentences with phrase «vast wastelands of»

In one of the first 21st century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II.

In this vast wasteland of sin and iniquity, there must be a man worthy of being spared the inevitable wrath of the Lord, as Lot was.

Battlestar Galactica may be a step up from Star Trek, in terms of both artistry and philosophical seriousness, but is it worth enduring the ever - vaster wasteland of basic cable to make that step up possible?

Writer - director Jake Kasdan has come up with a wickedly funny satire about the vast wasteland of television.

The vast wasteland of the Australian Outback is a harsh expanse of dire survival.

Indie books were supposed to be a vast wasteland of drivel, with perhaps a few «outliers» who were earning a lot of money.

Of course much of the content was important at some point, so how do you turn a vast wasteland of information into something usable, friendly and fit within your culture?

Not exact matches

You may be most familiar with statistics in cosmopolitan areas or inner cities but there is a vast wasteland in between and most of those on the dole are still white.

As the dominant mythmaker of our time, television has come a long way from what Newton Minow called the «vast wasteland» of the 1960's.

By the «60s, however, TV game - show scandals and the public's growing perception of TV as a «vast wasteland» set the stage for change.

Thus they are not the standard fare of either moral conservatism or more liberal attacks on the inanity of most of TV's mind - wasting exercises (Newton Minnow's «vast wasteland»).

[font = Arial][color = darkred] In the vast wasteland the summer has become of mediocrity and sub-mediocrity go to your local art house.

Synopsis: «George Romero creates a harrowing vision of a modern - day world where the walking dead roam a vast uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead «normal» lives behind the high walls of a fortified city.

THE WASTELAND AWAITS Seamlessly traverse a vast and varied landscape, from lush jungles and treacherous swamps to sun - scorched deserts in your pursuit of The Authority.

At the point of departure, we find Max haunted by his tragic past and hunted by desperate scavengers as he drifts around the vast wasteland in a rusty, rattling, off - road muscle car.

The production design for the various levels of hell is striking, ranging from a vast desert wasteland in the Hell of Filial Piety to cascading waterfalls in the Hell of Indolence.

Pending redevelopment much of it is now wasteland as the extremities of the vast site have been demolished.

The add - on «increases the range of unique weapons, weapon mods, ammo types and recipes waiting to be uncovered in the vast Mojave Wasteland.»

THE WASTELAND AWAITS Seamlessly traverse a vast and varied landscape, from lush jungles and treacherous swamps to sun - scorched deserts in your pursuit of The Authority.

When most people hear about a post-apocalyptic setting, images of vast gray wastelands are probably the first of many things that come to mind.

The main storyline pales in comparison to the larger breadth of experiences to be had throughout, and the vast wasteland begs to be lived in.

Creating a vast world that is a convincing representation of a dismal, post-nuclear wasteland while also being consistently compelling is no mean feat, but here it is.

The game offers an extensive world consisting of vast wastelands, as well as small towns and Indian settlements.

Exploration of the wasteland will be much more vast than in previous games, taking advantage of the new generation of consoles.

A vast wasteland is filled with totemic stone formations and a small villa - museum, which holds such objects within as a Classical statue of a hero masturbating.

I'll accept that land - use forcings are harder to get, especially since around that time it is believed the Native Indians in the North American central plateau were burning vast stretches of forested plains (which are wastelands today as a result), which must have had some sort of climate consequences, and who knows for sure what was going on in the far east, Oceana, Africa, South America and Australia?

He is most commonly known for coining the term «vast wasteland», which was used to describe the lack of morality present in television in the 1960's.