Aerial views of the disaster area broadcast tonight on Russian television showed a broad river of black mud and debris settled over the otherwise green landscape at the mountains' base.
Hours later, a broad river of people in Tehran — young and old, dressed in traditional Islamic gowns and the latest Western fashions — marched slowly from Revolution Square to Freedom Square for more than three hours, many of them wearing the signature bright green ribbons of Mr. Moussavi's campaign and holding up their hands in victory signs.
Carey summarizes the abiding obsession in the novels as the collision of "the spiritual and the miraculous" with "science and rationality," and it is this persistent hypersensitivity to the numinous and immaterial aspects of the world and the human condition that sets Golding apart from the broad river of social realism that so defines the 20th-century English novel.
It is a poor area, with a broad river of open sewage traversing the town and flies filling the air.
It is formed by the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers, just east of Knoxville, Tennessee, and flows south-southwest to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
There are also relatively unheralded opportunities for kayaking and fishing in the broad lazy rivers of Mesopotamia, a verdant area of north-east Argentina.
From the garden walk, the Bulow heads watch over a ribbon of broad river and soaring cliffs, sprays of heather and ancient trees that are bent with age and alight with spring color.
Yakuts said that somewhere in the south was Dauria, where a broad river watered fields of wheat in the summer sun.
We drive and experience proper dropped jaws when we turn off the motorway and arrive at the first viewing point: from high up, all you can see is a vast expanse of broad river and enough grapes, it seems, to keep the world drunk for ever.
But there was more to them than a stirring call to arms to fight recession; he was placing between his incoming administration and that of the outgoing president a broad river packed with growling chunks of ice - a river just crossed, at great hazard to the survival of America's "founding documents".
