Sentence examples for bitter desert from inspiring English sources

And I don't mean to suggest by this the "Elmer Gantry" sort of hypocrisy concerning sensuality; it was a deeper, deadlier, and more subtle hypocrisy than that, and a little honest sensuality, or a lot, would have been like water in an extremely bitter desert.

(If wild colocynth doesn't ring a bell, it's a bitter desert plant with a long medicinal history -- including being recommended for curing werewolves in the 16th century -- and probably worked quite well as an early abortion drug. Why? It made you throw up so hard you'd miscarry. Not pleasant).

In 2006 he made his final feature, Le Rose del Deserto (The Roses of the Desert), a bitter comedy about the Italian army in Libya in 1940.

One is that the two men engage in such a bitter duel that disgusted voters desert them both for the mainstream right.

During the winter, bitter winds sweep across the desert landscape, slicing through the tent and forcing the whole family to crowd into the cave for warmth.

In 1840 Van Buren's proposal to move federal funds from state banks to an "independent treasury" was passed by Congress after a bitter struggle in which many conservative Democrats deserted to the new Whig Party.

For four days they hiked the desert, sweltering in the afternoon and bitter cold at night, sleeping in villages, searching each house and hole they crossed.

Chrissy Alvarado, a mother of two students at Desert Trails, says she worries the bitter fight will be distracting.

If a man was left behind in the inhospitable Sinai, he might die in the burning desert sun during the day, or bitter cold at night.

Ms. Bayrakdarian brings a combination of earthy vocal power and subtle expressive shadings to songs like "J'Attends un Navire" and "Youkali," a bitter ode to the guiding star that has deserted her.

Camels are, by preference, browsers of a broad spectrum of forage plants including trees, shrubs and hard-thorny, bitter and halophytic (salty) plants that grow naturally in the desert and other semi-arid areas (Dokata 2014).