Hawaii's volcanic emergence from the floor of the Pacific Ocean created a new land devoid of fauna.
The sizable bezel below the screen is a bit of a no man's land, devoid of all function.
In his writing and teaching Mr. Achebe sought to reclaim the continent from Western literature, which he felt had reduced it to an alien, barbaric and frightening land devoid of its own art and culture.
Maybe the reason Texans seem so much more vivid than the rest of us is that they need personalities strong enough to wrestle those hard gray-blue skies and seemingly endless stretches of land, devoid of contour and drained of color, to the ground.
Located at the northeastern tip of Scotland, the islands surrounding Scapa Flow were little more than barren, cold, windswept specks of land devoid of the trappings of civilization.
Due to overgrazing, the natural vegetation in the northern highlands of Ethiopia has virtually disappeared, leaving degraded communal grazing lands with irregularly spaced trees and shrubs and vast areas of bare lands devoid of vegetation (Nedessa et al. 2005).
The result is a land so devoid of erosion that a footprint can last 1,000 years and the tracks of chariots used by warring conquistador factions in the 16th century are still visible.
IN the window of a video store on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hangs a poster for the 1968 film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," in which a young boy and girl enter a land curiously devoid of children.
