Sentence examples for cruel landscape from inspiring English sources

That some measure of humanity still flickers in this cruel landscape makes the film that much more devastating.

In "Savage Lands," she transported readers to the young colony of Louisiana in the early 1700s, setting a complex love story against a fecund yet relentlessly cruel landscape that became as important to the plot as the characters themselves.

But my sleeping compartment was chained off from the rest of the train, just like the one Kit travels in, and looking out on to that dry, beautiful, cruel landscape I could sense some of the desolation she feels.

A stage direction in Athol Fugard's play "Boesman and Lena" says of its main characters, a mixed-race (or "colored") couple making their way across the cruel landscape of apartheid-era South Africa, that "a life of hardship and dissipation obscures their ages, but they are most probably in their 50's".

First aired on BBC3 in 2004, Nighty Night took the awkward and often cruel comedy landscape of the era – as perfected by Ricky Gervais and Larry David – and ran with it.

The cruel and beautiful landscape here reminds her of her childhood.

Not a benign snowy landscape, but somehow cruel.

With its emphasis on the cruel beauty of the US landscape, Meek's Cutoff has attracted comparisons with the films of Terrence Malick.

The city propels the stories and sets the atmosphere (especially thanks to some fine descriptions of its cruel winters) and, crucially, the landscape Redhill conjures is alive and constantly in flux.

His films still have tinges of the visual art world to them, from the painterly use of excrement in Hunger to the cruel beauty of Slave's landscapes.

She also takes us on a heart-rending journey through her characters' emotional landscapes, via the cruel terrain of despair in which Elf becomes stranded, shedding light on the darkest of places.