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The North Korean authorities intercepted some money that I sent to my family, and, as a punishment, my family was going to be forcibly removed to a desolate location in the countryside.
But this time, the migration leaves African-Americans in place, as families and businesses flee the city, leaving the city pretty desolate of people as well as jobs.
They not only look desolate, they feel downright dangerous.
We were to be rounded up and imprisoned in 10 barbed-wire prison camps in some of the most desolate places in America: the blistering hot desert of Arizona, the sultry swamps of Arkansas, the wastelands of Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and two of the most desolate places in California.
It's a very desolate place.
The shops are closed, the pub's gone, the playground's pretty desolate and never used, and inside Ella's house, the tension is palpable and the noise levels are deafening.
For the final touch, the artist uses a chop, or a stamp, and signs their work, and can hold it up to say, "The fish was exactly this big!" Fifty years ago in the old Soviet Union, a team of engineers was secretly moving a large object through a desolate countryside.
They stayed ahead of Scott’s team, and on December 14, arrived first at their desolate destination.
Over the ensuing months, the army moved Japanese Americans into long-term camps in desolate areas of the West and South, moving Aki and her family to Minidoka in southern Idaho.
As Shiva despaired over the desolate Earth, He came to realize that the material world could not be so easily dismissed.
Siberia most of you probably think of as a cold, desolate, unlivable place.
Every single year, for at least a decade or more, [60,000] of them have been voting with their feet, crossing, moving north and inhabiting this desolate terrain.
It's a beautiful piece of filmmaking, but everything is desolate, everything is dead.
Father Harlan (Nick Nolte) cares for the dying Irwin, but Irwin imagines (or does he?!) that a group of angels (including Daryl Hannah and Anthony Edwards) have arrived in the desolate and empty town looking for a fallen angel.
The film is about a group of cheerleaders and two potheads who escape to a desolate cabin, in the cold woods, for a weekend getaway.
What good is money anyway when almost the entire world has gone to hell and towns are mostly desolate.
In sum, kick ass character progression, design, story without the cushion of dialogue, and most importantly, the always appreciated desolate scenery of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The loutish, profane, beer-guzzling, sex-happy dipstick dimwits hold a séance as a joke (very bad idea, 'cause the desolate old dive is naturally said to be haunted by demonic spirits).
A high note, Brad Fiedel's whistling music is really creepy and adds to the desolate proceedings making this great fun for genre fans.
Part of its reflection on the nature of the human world is that each of its humans is not necessarily played as a perfect human being: The hero, a lone drifter in the desolate new world, is taken in by an older recluse, who refuses to keep his part of an exchange of food between him and a husky, brutish character played by Jean Reno, and so Reno tries everything he can, predominantly using brute force, to get what he wants.
During the next 2 or 3 decades that followed, France's New Wavers caught everyone's attention, and there was always Bergman up there on his desolate Scandinavian island somewhere, making bitter masterpieces.
After a brief affair, Katherine called it quits, leaving the Count desolate.
The country is like all countries, areas that everyone loves, quaint country areas and desolate areas.
The vague but disturbing images of pain and torture in a desolate landscape leave room for your own fantasies.
The scenery is beautifully desolate, the characters achingly isolated.
As it turns out, a large pick-up truck with an unseen driver is running down African Americans on a desolate stretch of road...
A miller, dressed in white, makes his way towards us from a windmill in a desolate landscape.
Max had the V-8, Trace (Wheels of Fires last and only hero) has a jet engine on the back of his car allowing him to make unintentionally humorous faces as he rockets around the halfway desolate wasteland.
After a fairly lengthy partially pixelated nude shower scene, we're off to the races for this "Blair Witch Project"-esquire horror film about three girlfriends venturing to a desolate cabin deep in the woods to get away from their hectic lives for a girls' weekend out and smoke pot.
The setting is perfect, in a desolate winter hideaway.
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