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But what awaits them outside is a desolate landscape of utter ruin as far as the eye can see.
Werner Herzog mounts his camera on a helicopter and takes us through the desolate landscape of Kuwait's oil fields yet there's no politics involved, no topical Gulf War content.
early seventies style, bad acting, desolate location make it worth checking out on a snowy winters night.College students on some sort of field trip are trapped in their guides cabin try and figure out why they can'receive any outside communication,after much speculation they figure it must be an alien invasion.after
This will set in motion Brewster's calling on help from Transylvania's own Professor Lazlo(J Edward Bromberg)who understands the vampire ways for his own homeland has become a desolate wasteland because of the bloodsucking & death.
We are introduced to two other groups, a trio entering a desolate, wind-swept village in search of food and supplies, and this unstable collection of bickering people attempting to fend off an endless number of zombies, trying to hold their area outside a forest which keeps producing them.
A desolate army outpost near Lebanon is the setting for this tale of intimate relations in "Yossi & Jagger."
The survivors (doctors, officers, boat crew and jailbirds) crawl to the shore of a desolate island, find refuge inside a large lighthouse and have to fight off one of the escapees, who happens to be a psychotic killer.
Survivors of the nuclear holocaust roam the desolate wasteland in a futuristic van, searching for others.
On a desolate planet, two factions are at war with each other, but there is another menace out there tunneling beneath the ground.
Moderately interesting but maddeningly slow and ultimately sleep-inducing thriller, set in the desolate highways of rural France.
This is a terrific film, centered on the life of a family of Tunisian Jewish immigrants in the desolate Paris banlieue of Sarcelle (aka la Petite Jérusalem).
What makes this desolate economic landscape even gloomier is the striking inability of European leaders to explain what has happened and is happening to their citizens.
And indeed, The Ordinary Virtues by the former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff, which grew from a Carnegie study, indicates that even in the world’s most desolate and lawless corners, individuals have a strong sense of their own rights and also, if to a lesser extent, of the importance of treating those close to them with decency.
Images of vulnerable, desolate refugee children – likely to be displaced for a decade or more – have become so common that the world seems unable to comprehend what it is seeing.
Parents with autistic children are desolate and desperate to determine its cause.
And yet, no international organization has suffered an overnight funding cut as devastating as the one UNRWA now faces, after 70 years of serving the displaced and the desolate.
Thus, while outsiders might view the desolate islands as insignificant, for Koreans, Japan’s position on Dokdo is tantamount to a challenge to their country’s independence and a denial of its right to exercise sovereignty over its own territory.
The desolate village where Xi spent seven years as a farmer during the Cultural Revolution has been branded as a source of “great knowledge” and become a red-hot tourist destination.
The current disorder in Iraq, where pluralism amounts to patronage, is only a part of the desolate sociopolitical panorama to which its citizens are exposed.
If presented with an aerial view of Shenzhen’s Futian District and Hong Kong’s New Territories today, the latter areas, south of the Shenzhen River, would appear desolate.
In mid-2017, Indian troops were pushed into another standoff with the PLA – this time, at Doklam, a small and desolate Himalayan plateau where Chinese-ruled Tibet meets the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim and the Kingdom of Bhutan.
It was after the rupture, and when he saw that she was ill with grief, that he had accepted the management of the Montsou mines, still hoping also that she would reform down there in that desolate black country.
His desolate household, his whole wounded life, choked him at the throat like a death agony.
And as I stared at this desolate wreckage, Captain Nemo told me in a solemn voice:"Commander La Pérouse set out on December 7, 1785, with his ships, the Compass and the Astrolabe.
Beyond, a stark silence reigned in this desolate natural setting, a silence barely broken by the flapping wings of petrels or puffins.
The vegetation on this desolate continent struck me as quite limited.
I was desolate.
Entering this desolate spot, the refugee officer very coolly took from his pocket a short pipe, which, from long use, had acquired not only the hue but the gloss of ebony, a tobacco box, and a small roll of leather, that contained steel, flint, and tinder.
He wandered far from the accustomed haunts of boys, and sought desolate places that were in harmony with his spirit.
I am sorry to cut our chat short, but I am sure that you will come to see me again, will you not, when I am less desolate?
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