The result is infuriatingly conflicted fare, buoyed up by brilliant performances, weighed down by old-school cliche, leavened by the bleak plains over which it casts its lonely, misanthropic eye.
To give Norway its lonely due, it does strikingly well at holding its head up abroad.
I was told that the car would be picked up the next day and taken by truck to the port at Bremerhaven on the North Sea, in the north of Germany, where it would begin its lonely voyage, sans owner, to arrive in Newark in four to six weeks.
But as part of a series of viewpoints on challenges for China's new leadership, Gerard Lemos, who conducted research in the mega-city of Chongqing, says it is easy to overlook its lonely underbelly.
They say that Vallentyne's account reduces to the claim that a property is intrinsic iff possession of it never differs between an object and its lonely duplicates, a claim they think is true but too trivial to count as an analysis.
It remains a stark and spellbinding experience, which renders its lonely island in scintillating detail.
And what we instantly notice about the other half, with its lonely eye and its salty shock of hair, is how it shudders and blurs.
Now, a nation turns its lonely eyes to the only person who can, currently, get it done.
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Talk about a nation turns its lonely eyes to you".
Llanfyllin had its Lonely Tree," says local author Richard Kretchmer.
