Her love life had become as arid as her creative life was rich.
Our destination was Berenty, only 50 miles west, but as arid as Tolanaro is humid.
And as arid as her new California landscape is, a gated subdivision in Rancho Mirage is not exactly the Levant.
After the end of white rule, South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, returned them to their lands, as arid as the face of the moon.
In contrast to much of Europe, which is home to a few green shoots (see article), Spain's economy still looks as arid as the meseta.
Taylor's technique dazzles, but her off-the-grid subject matter feels forced, nearly as arid as the windows' trompe-l'oeil views.
In the evening sun, the land seemed as arid as a moonscape, dotted by chalky hillocks and ringed by unfriendly cliffs.
But what the robust, sharp lyrics of In Memoriam teach me, every time I return to them, is that the false certainties of evangelical Christianity are as arid as the shrill negativism of the materialist outlook.
It was unclear at first just what nomadic desert dwellers could have made over the backroom battles of J. R. or the plantation sweetness of Miss Ellie, even if the open plains of Texas could at times seem as arid as the surrounding desert.
The picture of expanding drought painted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not be quite as arid as it looks.
There is so little rainfall that it is almost as arid as a desert, indeed it was one of the backdrops for spaghetti western films in the 1960s.
