San Francisco is a metropolis molded, far more than most, by topography and weather, and Kamiya artfully helps us imagine the landscape as it once was: a place of mostly windswept dunes where nomadic bands of American Indians traveled between summer and winter camps, along trails whose contours still exist — as in the route that fixie-riding hipsters today call the Wiggle.
College in my time, the 1970s, was a place of mostly durable and simple stuff.
WASHINGTON — During the Bush administration, the Food and Drug Administration was mostly a place of black-and-white decisions.
In her first draft of "A Place of Greater Safety," she had written mostly about the men, but, years later, when a publisher came to hear of its existence and wanted to publish it, she built the women up.
Addiction succeeds on fear and injured self-esteem, the deterioration of our center leaves us to operate mostly from a place of either neediness or withholding.
"I still regard the country as a place of isolation, full of beauty — maybe — but mostly loneliness," she observes.
But mostly, it's a place of wonder full of exotically freakish animal composites - iridescent lizard birds, hammer-headed rhinos - and sentient vegetation".
The landscape of "A Shropshire Lad" is an all-purpose landscape, not a particular one, and, far from being the unspoiled countryside imagined by Brexiteers, it's a place mostly of unhappy love and early death.
The site is now an offbeat place of pilgrimage, mostly for history buffs and schoolchildren.
The South Bronx, for many, had become nothing more than a dumping ground -- a place where mostly low income people of color had no clout, little hope, and few champions.
Like some of the other unlicensed social clubs in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the club on Jefferson Avenue near Nostrand Avenue was a place where a handful of mostly middle-aged men went to listen to the jukebox and watch sports on TV.
