Sentence examples for distant terrain from inspiring English sources

Mr. Roth's novel generated an interesting discussion among members of the black elite, some of whom were surprised that a writer from such distant terrain had exposed the centuries-old conspiracy of silence among black people that permitted passers to live without fear of being outed.

We hypothesized that bright sunlight might cause drivers to perceive distant terrain as relatively close and misinterpret the approach speed of surrounding landscape as unduly slow.

Instead of removing textures that exceed the draw distance, the new engine uses mipmapping to lower the polygon count of distant terrain.

Presented as found relics, the objects hint at a historic affinity with and veneration for these distant terrains".

Punishing terrorist groups in the remote terrain of distant countries like Afghanistan will require rapid military operations to maintain some element of surprise.

In this distant and institutionally suspicious terrain, an American business traveller has been kidnapped, a crime that, again, perhaps deliberately echoes the missing man set-up in Zen's first Ratking investigation.

Yet its outdoor scenes and its scenes of escape, set in distant, rugged, and rhapsodic terrain, suggest that the illicit thrill of the outlaw life is an inescapable but doomed element of the American dream — and that this thrill is inextricable even from apparently sedate middle-class comforts, that the lure of death in the wild and of life in the suburbs isn't as different as it seems.

A core problem in such missions is the ability to visit distant places in rough terrain.

These data support the hypothesis that cattle establish least-effort routes between distant points in rugged terrain and suggest that GIS software may be useful in designing systems of livestock trails in extensive settings.

Conventional level of detail and mipmapping were used to reduce the computational load of distant landscape objects and terrains when they were rendered.

Accordingly, all versions of Mr. Wooley's "Seven Storey Mountain" involve a sloughing off of conventional technique in favor of esoteric sounds, and a sensation of slow, steady ascent through mysterious terrain toward a distant peak.