Walking around the forlorn landscape of fences, sheds and roaring roads that has been inflicted on Dalmarnock, it comes as a surprise to turn a corner and find something of a model housing development, standing opposite the new arena's blank cliff-face.
What did happen was that I came to a halt hanging upside down on the face of a blank, icy cliff.
Free Willy!" "Oh, Keiko!" the others said, pushing up to the window, yanking each other's sleeves and gawking at nothing but the empty inlet, the glassy water, the blank, looming cliffs.
A rusting narrow gauge railway, its sleepers encrusted with sediment, twists its way into the mouth of a rough-hewn mine in a blank stretch of cliff.
From the top, the mountain is a blank canvas, littered with crevasses, cliffs, couloirs and other potentially life-ending hazards.
So like many other landscape photographers, Carlton E. Watkins inserted properly exposed clouds from a different negative into the blank sky in a grand view of cliffs along the Columbia River in Oregon that he shot in 1867.
This is why it's essential to think beyond these two paths off the same cliff: for all the nightmares it's created, the blank abstraction of a referendum result really does offer some slim opportunity to introduce something new.
The Phillies' Cliff Lee twirled his fifth shutout of the season on Thursday when he blanked the Giants, 3-0. Lee has the most shutouts in a season since 2005, when Dontrelle Willis had five for Florida.
Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, McConnell cautioned: "Republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything the Democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff".
