What's the difference between badlands and hoodoo?

Badlands


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Hoodoo


Definition:

  • (n.) One who causes bad luck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Murray found new reserves of strength to take the fifth and lay a 76-year hoodoo to rest.
  • (2) Keep your bearings – the visitor centre is easy to spot from any vantage – and let yourself get lost between the hoodoos.
  • (3) North End, aiming to end an eight-game play-off hoodoo, had been poor, but Garner ensured they will head to South Yorkshire next Thursday on level terms.
  • (4) Here thousands of mushroom-shaped hoodoos sit clustered in a secluded valley on the edge of the spectacular San Rafael Swell.
  • (5) The white cliffs, hoodoos and slot canyon are all made of of volcanic tuff that erupted around a million years ago.
  • (6) Yet a lot of teams have buried a hoodoo at Old Trafford over the last couple of seasons.
  • (7) 7.44pm GMT Kick off coming up soon... Can SKC break their Houston hoodoo?
  • (8) Andy Murray has capped a year in which he broke a 77-year Wimbledon hoodoo and played his way into the hearts of the nation by winning the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award.
  • (9) The first half of the three-mile trail winds through a slot canyon so narrow you can touch the walls on both sides, then the canyon opens up beneath the 100ft conical hoodoos that give this national monument its name, before switchbacking up to the top of the mesa for a sweeping overlook of the Jemez mountains and the Rio Grande River Valley.
  • (10) It's now a hoodoo, voodoo, ghost, curse, rally monkey, wear-your-cap-inside-out situation 9.31pm BST Giants 6, Reds 3 Top 9th Xavier Nady in to pinch hit for the Giants.
  • (11) Paul Lambert brought up an unwanted half-century in charge of Aston Villa as Hull City overcame their own hoodoo against their relegation rivals to plunge them into the bottom three .
  • (12) Don't get me wrong, Rodgers is one of the best QB's around and has a bit of a hoodoo over Da Bears, but it's forecast to be a cold and windy evening in Chicago that will probably suit the running game best.
  • (13) Ukraine’s hopes of finally ending their play-off hoodoo and qualifying for Euro 2016 were given a huge boost with a 2-0 first-leg victory over Slovenia in Lviv.
  • (14) The images, which are deeply layered and particular to a black Southern vernacular and aesthetic, beg to be catalogued: Creole and Black American, Mardi Gras Indian, crawfish, Black cowboys, wig shops, socks and slippers, corsets and parasols, parades, high school basketball, step team moves, bounce queens Big Freedia and Messy Mya, cotillions, “twirl on dem haters”, braids, “bama”, black spirituality (church and hoodoo, maybe even a nod to Mami Wata), black mama side eyes, drawls, Blue Ivy black girl magic fierceness.
  • (15) Seasoned hikers can head to the Valley of the 1,000 Devils , with its hoodoo rock formations and dinosaur fossils.

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