A mythic quest involving fellowship and solitude; the startling beauty, by turns lush and austere, of a wild land; imposing jewelry possessed of special power: if you now have visions of "The Hobbit" floating in your heads, please banish them.
Beautifully photographed (by Fred Kelemen) on the austere, unforgiving Hungarian plain lands, The Turin Horse challenges us to enter into a world just beyond the one we experience daily.
Aurelio Zen, the philosophical police detective in Michael Dibdin's dark crime novels, has always dreaded being assigned to Sicily, a brooding land of intrigue whose austere beauty and arrogant insularity offer no comfort to strangers.
In 1988, the company's founder, Joe Ryan, then a ski guide, applied for a permit from the National Forest Service to set up a few austere huts for backcountry skiers on federal land in the San Juan Mountains above Telluride, Colo.
For the three-week exercise, called Austere Challenge, American military personnel operated Patriot land-based missile defense batteries on temporary deployment to Israel as well as Aegis missile defense ships, which carry tracking radars and interceptors.
Hazan madre famously revealed the austere simplicity of real Italian cooking to the land of leaden saltimbocca and industrial "parmesan shaken out of a canister.
Nesib (Antonio Banderas) wants to use the new wealth to build schools and hospitals in his land and raise living standards; the austere Amar (Mark Strong) wishes to defy progress and avoid the temptations of mammon and materialism.
Efforts to obtain food, repair shelter, till the land and remain safe in this austere environment were all consuming for interviewees.
Here Mr. Jenner practically shrieked the lyrics, and as the band was transitioning to "Come Back to Me," it went in the direction of austere techno for a moment, with crisp digital handclaps landing like slaps.
Though the traditional lifestyle of Mayan Ixil farmers may be austere, the majority live decent, agrarian lives tied to their ancestral lands and traditional way of life.
