Sentence examples for abandoned world from inspiring English sources

But zone in, and there's an eerie sense of a strange, singular creature picking its way purposefully but pointlessly through an abandoned world, not unlike yourself.

It is Fort Tilden, an expanse of sand west of Riis beach set among abandoned World War II-era fortifications, dilapidated barracks, winding paths through thickets of black pines and tall dunes topped with thick tufts of beach grass and seaside goldenrod.

Born in 1946 and brought up in Guernsey, Foss used abandoned World War Two bunkers as a playground and witnessed first-hand the post-war damage in Europe as a six-year-old - the influence of which is clear in his fictional landscapes.

The filmmakers consulted with many scientists about the effects of an abandoned world and nuclear winter.

A teenage boy commits suicide but then wakes up in an almost abandoned world.

An abandoned World War II runway at the Santa Maria, California airport set the scene for the fictional Chaplin Air Field.

Again they stressed the themes of party democracy and economic planning, condemned the leadership's concessions to bourgeois elements, and denounced Stalin's theory of "socialism in one country" as a pretext for abandoning world revolution.

In a world where China aims to produce hundreds of thousands of additional researchers by 2020, we are cutting spending on science and abandoning world-leading research.

While we haven't abandoned our world views, we never expected that we would inherit a world of famine, rising global temperatures, metastasizing terrorism and jobless recoveries.

The project speaks to the world abandoned by humans and left to rot without humanity's maintenance.

But when the Republicans came to power after the 2000 election, Sandberg abandoned the world she had conquered.