The idea has always been that robots would at some point become evil, develop a malevolent intelligence, learn to run fast in a frightening, spidery way, and finally assume control of our barren, dust-blown future world, thereby confirming the ancient narrative of mankind's destruction by its own hand whether by – ahem – accumulated sin or by a successful and concerted robot uprising.
It was the dry season, and parched shrubs dotted the barren landscape; the dust clung to my skin until my shirt felt like fine sandpaper.
For a few moments, we peer wonderingly through a chain link fence at the barren expanse of dust and concrete, and the neat white and red houses beyond it.
The work opens with a desolate murmuring improvised by the strings, eerily evoking the swirling dust of barren ruins, with a Kurdish melody heralding the rebuilding of the destroyed village.
The apartments sit largely barren, still coated in dust and ash, with no sign of the vibrant life the residents enjoyed for a quarter century at the feet of the twin towers.
Intensive use of exposed barren areas has escalated dust storms, drought severity, and water shortages (e.g., Xuan et al. 2000; Chen and Liu 2014).
A harsh, hot wind blows in, pushing the dust across the barren ground.
IGN editor Erik Brudvig praised the game's "minimalist" sound design, observing, "you might find yourself with nothing but the sound of wind rustling through decaying trees and blowing dust across the barren plains... Fallout 3 proves that less can be more".
The past few months have been deeply encouraging for Americans who care about the worst abuses of farm animals, as legislation has been introduced that would -- once and for all -- relegate the barren battery cage to the dust bin of history and the two most well-known pork producers have pledged to stop using gestation crates by 2017.
A model in dungaree-styled all-in-one, hems rolled above the barren catwalk, dry ice swirling like dust clouds around her ankles, looked like a character from a glossy remake of the Grapes of Wrath.
