Sentence examples for intense desert from inspiring English sources

Thousands of small mirrors focus intense desert sunlight on a central tower, where it generates steam to drive a turbine.

"It's the road of death," Williams said, referring to the 1,400-mile 1,400-miletween Agadez and stretchtypically a week-long drive through intense desert heat.

Combined, the hundreds of red dots that represent people who died of exposure to the intense desert heat and cold, by far the most common among the causes of death, look like an unshapely bruise.

Large-scale C.S.P. projects — essentially expansive fields of solar collectors, or mirrors, that concentrate rays from the intense desert sun to heat water, generate steam, drive turbines and produce electricity — are not revolutionary.

To the left side, a pink square is suspended, which, as Amy Lyford notes in "Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930-1950," could stand for the intense desert heat.

In an extraordinary end to an intense desert manhunt, an American tourist has been found alive after disappearing for 40 days in West Australia's Great Sandy desert, one of the most hostile terrains in the world where even the moderate winter temperature is 32C (90F) in daytime.

Many millions of them are directly affected by the violence, now for more than a decade in Afghanistan in its latest war and for nearly nine years in Iraq in a war that followed 12 years of crippling sanctions and the short but intense Operation Desert Storm.

It results from a harmonious interplay of at least three natural conditions: the region's latitude is far enough south to dissipate the most severe North Pacific winter storms, a cooling layer of marine air moderates the summer sun, and the tall mountain ranges shield the region from potentially intense blasts of desert heat and cold.

Sky, wind and earth inspired pretty muted shades of sky blue, cerise pink and grape hues veiled over lemon green in Zenlike shapes: loosely fitted drawstring pants, ruched strapless dresses with layers of fabrics -- combined so as to change shades in different light -- and ankle-touching dresses that combined intense but muted desert tones of sand, blue and yellow.

Helped out by cameos from the neo-bluesman Gary Clark Jr, who played the stage before them, they rattled through their chunky, verbose and energetic back catalogue with standouts such as Blockbuster and Lie, Cheat, Steal feeling even more intense in the desert heat.

It must withstand the desert's intense winds and semi-frequent dust storms, not to mention the 60,000 Burning Man visitors who will likely make a trip to the edifice at some point during the week.