(1) Her real passion has always been 1970s character films: Badlands, Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie And Clyde.
(2) Viktor Nemets plays the decent, dogged driver who trundles through lawless rural badlands before grinding his gears in a gutted community where the menfolk have gone to the bad and the police are too busy tracing nude pictures out of girlie magazines to do anything about it.
(3) Useful link navajonationparks.org Petrified Forest national park Petrified Forest National Park, Badlands, Arizona.
(4) You are in the system, safe from the unregulated badlands of Nickelodeon and its oceans of advertising, the looping hours of Peppa Pig and American imports that run through the night so that other, feral children (not yours) can watch cartoons at 2am while snuffling from bowls of refined sugar.
(5) In both the Merseyside borough's post-industrial badlands, and neighbourhoods that are all golf courses and double garages, mad blood has been stirring for months.
(6) As part of the Best of 2013 feature, Apple has also picked its favourite apps of the year, with language-learning app Duolingo winning App of the Year and Ridiculous Fishing Game of the Year for iPhone, and Disney Animated and Badland taking the respective honours on iPad.
(7) Last year mobile gamers got to play that game, Badlands, Ridiculous Fishing, Tiny Thief, The Room, Adventure Town, Rymdkapsel, Impossible Road, Republique, Papa Sangre II, Blackbar and Device 6, to name but a few.
(8) Bathed in glorious gold and brown autumn foliage, the tranquil towns around Lake Winnipesaukee could not seem further away from the Islamic State’s desert plains, the Ebola-stricken villages of west Africa or the badlands beneath the southern US border.
(9) Not to be put off, the British comic’s latest film Grimsby has drawn fury for depicting the Lincolnshire port as a rundown badlands strewn with litter and peopled by beer-swigging children and hooligan parents.
(10) In 1982 a harsh, bare-bones solo album called Nebraska took its tone from Terrence Malick's film Badlands, the story of teenage killers inspired by the Charlie Starkweather murder spree of the 1950s.
(11) Two years after Badlands , Malick went through his first divorce, from film assistant Jill Jakes, while working on his next movie, Days of Heaven – which was eventually released in 1978 starring Richard Gere, despite Malick's desire to cast John Travolta in the role.
(12) His "mythic" status has been built on the reverence for his films: Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), The New World (2005), and now The Tree of Life , which was mostly filmed in 2008-9.
(13) Observe a man by the sea pulling a 20ft-high ball of string, or a giant eye peering ominously over a naked shoulder in some parched badland.
(14) Smooth single track gives way to tight curves and rocky steeps that appeal to intermediate and expert riders, and the scenery is outstanding, with weathered badlands and red-rock canyons cut by the Colorado river.
(15) The NK models have the important property that, as the parameter K increases, the "ruggedness" of the NK landscape varies from a single peaked "Fujiyama" landscape to a multi-peaked "badlands" landscape.
(16) This they did, showing that they are not just a force in the badlands of the south and east, but also capable of causing serious trouble in Kabul itself.
(17) "Look, I'll be honest: Badlands changed my life, it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.
(18) Badland Badland was one of many well-loved indie games to make the leap from iOS to Android this year, as developers recognised the growing potential of Google's platform for games.
(19) His visits to China's provincial badlands do not usually end on such a light note.
(20) Sanchez was born in the badlands of Sinaloa, a state in north west Mexico known best for the quality of its marijuana and the fiery temperament of its inhabitants.
Desert
Definition:
(n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
(n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
(n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
(v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
(v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
(v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(2) Eleven virus strains were isolated from ticks Hyalomma asiaticum asiaticum Schulce et Schlottke, 1929, and Hyalomma plumbeum plumbeum Panzer, 1796,collected in 1971-1974 in desert regions of the Uzbee S.S.R.
(3) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(4) Rising losses among the nearly 350,000-strong Afghan army and police, and a desertion rate of about 50,000 a year, also support Karzai's contention that control of large parts of the country remains tenuous.
(5) An opening sequence described as “spectacular” by Amazon insiders – featuring 6,000 extras in the Californian desert, according to some reports – is estimated to have cost £2.5m alone.
(6) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
(7) Forty soil samples from different desert localities in Kuwait were surveyed for keratinophilic and geophilic dermatophytic fungi.
(8) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(9) Harman said the reasons that made some voters desert Labour for Ukip were not all about Europe , but broader issues.
(10) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(11) Natural foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis are located mainly in the deserts of Middle Asia.
(12) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
(13) The far western deserts of China have been filled with wind farms and solar panels.
(14) "It wasn't a case of a Labour party that had deserted its principles," he said.
(15) Average prevalence for the country as a whole for people above the age of 10 was 4.3%, with distinct geographical differences: 5.7% in urban areas, 4.1% in rural agricultural areas, and 1.5% in rural desert areas.
(16) squeaks Tess, spinning around outside the reception at MediaCityUK, pointing at the deserted metallic acropolis.
(17) There is, however, a converse way of looking at the situation, Which is often neglected but which may be of general biological interest: does the evolution of adaptations to desert environments necessarily involve loss of viability in more mesic habitats?
(18) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
(19) Back to article (4) Here I asked him about Barry White, a Desert Island Disc choice of his in 1978, which he had no recollection of.
(20) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.