Families live on the base and in relatively new housing scattered on the surrounding landscape of onetime farmland, in a region characterized by flat, austere terrain and brutal winters.
The Modern and Whitney shows share three Americans: Joseph Stella and Marsden Hartley, who both spent time in Europe soaking up advanced ideas before World War I, and Georgia O'Keeffe, who was spurred toward abstraction in 1916 by the austere terrain of the American Southwest.
The peak is reached when a mighty church organ plays over the trance-like, deep house beats and I imagine viewing a panorama that renders me speechless except for a single "Wow!" In contrast, Judy Collins sings of the forbidding Greenland shores – a beautifully austere terrain.
He produced many fine paintings here, in muted colours, influenced by the austere mountain terrain.
The visual and aural textures are lush and sensual, as we've come to expect from Mr. Almodóvar, and yet the rich colors and deep sonorities somehow illuminate an unusually austere emotional terrain.
There's something remorseless and austere about the terrain, which now rolls in front of you; die-straight roads, distant blue lakes, large gaps between anywhere and long silences in the car.
Over the years, as the abstractions of physics became ever steeper and more austere, so did the terrain on which they were pondered.
The battlefields of the 21st century are almost certain to be in countries without large standing armies, air forces or navies, where overwhelming force will be less essential than swiftness and maneuverability and where austere conditions or inaccessible, rugged terrain will require self-sustaining units like those the Marines operate.
It has subsidiary companies providing educational services, including the exam board Edexcel, and insiders admits that Pearson sees opportunities to offer further services which it hopes schools will embrace amid the "shifting terrain" from the "austere financial climate and the changes to schools' relationships with local authorities".
Of all the great landscape writers, Lopez's austere style seems most purely to embody the terrain it describes.
A last full-length novel, L'airone (The Heron, 1968), opening out the Ferrarese prospect to embrace the surrounding terrain of the Po delta, seems gloomier in its austere engagement with contemporary existence than the more poetic embrace of prewar Ferrara made by its predecessors.
