Her painting Henry Ford Hospital depicts the artist, naked and alone on blood-soaked sheets, surrounded by a barren landscape that echoes her own barrenness.
If "people are policy", as Edwin Feulner, the head of Heritage, likes to say, then the think-tanks are becoming America's shadow government.The think-tanks' influence is partly related to the intellectual barrenness of America's two main parties.
At the top of Green Mountain they have succeeded to an impressive degree: this is said to be the only tropical forest in the world assembled from scratch.The Portuguese sailors who discovered Ascension in 1501 were so daunted by its barrenness they didn't even bother to land.
Actual crop-production statistics are now a state secret, so the picture is foggy, but a short drive through the countryside reveals vast swathes of barrenness.
Pontoppidan's great novel De dødes rige, 5 vol. (1912 16; "The Realm of the Dead"), shows his dissatisfaction with political developments after the liberal victory of 1901 and with the barrenness of the new era.
Even allowing for the barrenness of much of the region surrounding the lower course of the river and the ice-clogged waters into which it discharges, the Ob drains a region of great economic potential.
In the end, however, much of what Vasily accomplished was undone by his failure as a procreator: divorcing his first wife for her apparent barrenness, he married Yelena Glinskaya, who bore him only two children the deaf and mute Yury and the sickly Ivan, who was three years old at Vasily's death in 1533.
The more recent history of the MacKenzie pipeline hearings (1974 77) formed the backdrop for Elizabeth Hay's Giller Prize-winning Late Nights on Air, in which the foibles of a cast of eccentric characters are played out against the barrenness of northern landscapes and southern hearts.
She also wrote five more novels under her own name, including All That Swagger (1936), noted for its portrayal of the barrenness of bush life.
The surrounding mountains Párnis, 4,636 feet (1,413 metres); Pentelicus (Pendéli), 3,631 feet; Hymettos (Imittós), 3,365 feet; and Aigáleon, 1,535 feet add to the impression of barrenness.
Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands (1771) argued against a war with Spain over who should become "the undisputed lords of tempest-beaten barrenness".
