But the towers instead isolated residents from the thrum of the city streets, and critics decried some open expanses as too vast.
The crenelated expanse held some surprises, too, though there were few of the seemingly endless, steep runs that separate the Alps from other ski mountains.
Marijuana is ubiquitous, growing well-tended in deep-woods patches and casually disguised, too, in the expanse of a farmer's cornfield and a resident's basement.
The idea of a blaze of orange coming at you across a white expanse of snow is almost too otherworldly and terrifying to imagine.
In one piece in his CRG Gallery show, the wreckage of bombed cars on an expanse of Islamic trellis work too obviously juxtaposes the least and most inspiring aspects of Middle Eastern history.
The lackey looked there too: at the expanse of the Neva, where the foggy, many-chimneyed distances were so wanly etched, and whence Vasilievsky Island looked back at him in fright".
The government took its parcel, too: a giant expanse of what would become the national park to the south of the highway, and to the north another large plot — 932 square miles — for the military in Twentynine Palms, a few miles east of Joshua Tree.
True, in the meantime the desert has become less of a secret, with expanses of sand now all too familiar to both tourists and moviegoers.
"It was, 'Oh my God.' The house was built into the hill, so as you enter you see the expanse of the bridge, and New York City, too".
Somber and self-contained, with windows too narrow for the expanse of wall between them, it is a house which does not welcome.
