Entranced by both the character and actress, Ms. Nottage started wondering about Harris -- who she was and how she got to Hollywood and the types of films she had been able to make in that notoriously inhospitable town.
But the dream that matters for most people the one that propels the state forward is to be found in its latest manifestation at Victorville.Victorville is a dusty, inhospitable town in the High Desert, where temperatures stay above 105°F (41°C) in the summer.
Migrants from Pakistan, the characters in Aslam's powerful novel live in a cold and inhospitable English town they call Dasht-e-Tanhaii -- the Desert of Loneliness.
As your character approaches an inhospitable river town on a snowy night, the game acquires a rich cloak of atmosphere, a quality that the often frenetic Diablo II often seems to lack.
With opponents predicting the regulations will make their towns inhospitable to business and environmentalists countering that the rules are needed to protect the state's drinking water, the issue is becoming a classic battle over the proper balance between business and environmental interests.
Isolation and shame persist among gay teenagers, of course, but now, along with the inhospitable families and towns in which many find themselves marooned, there exists a parallel online community -- real people like them in cyberspace with whom they can chat, exchange messages and even engage in (online) sex.
There was the usual grousing, of course, about the films and the inhospitable location, a resort town ringed by dazzling mountains and clogged with Hummers that has become unpleasantly ill-suited to a festival this size (more than 50,000 attendees, fewer than 8,000 residents).
It's always a risk to meet one's heroes, and a small Texas town seemed an inhospitable spot for a writer who, throughout all his multifarious work, has retained a specifically English sensibility.
Housekeeping is the story of two orphaned sisters and of the people who look after them, in the very inhospitable north-west, in a small town called Fingerbone — a place of floods and extreme weather.
ONE day in 2000 the people of Puerto Casado, a small town in Paraguay's inhospitable Chaco region, were shocked to learn that the ground had been sold under their feet and that their new lord and master was the Rev Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed messiah who leads the Unification cult, better known as the Moonies.
The inhospitable horizons of Nebraska's plains, with towns languishing in economic abandonment, also recall John Ford's Depression landscapes in The Grapes of Wrath, photographed by Gregg Toland.
