Have you ever tried to film a scene of soldiers playing football in a desert sandstorm with the sand lashing the opera singers' faces and getting into the camera?
Caked with sweat and the desert sand that had been lashing his face over hundreds of miles, Drino Miller rolled his hopped-up dune buggy to a stop.
As the SUV struggled across the desert, lashed by plumes of sand, the fighters played cheery YPG anthems on full blast, smoking incessantly and squinting at approaching vehicles, visibly relaxing when they realized they were YPG.
If rideable, with wind not lashing against us, we clamber hastily into our wetsuits and lift foam surfboards to the beach, practicing our statue-like pop ups on the sand, before paddling out to the real thing.
I hated omitting such juicy phrases as "the hot winds and raging sands that lash him with the fury of a taskmaster's whip," "He can not cool the burning kiss of thirst upon his lips, nor shade the scorching fury of the sun," and my personal favorite, "into the molten wilderness of sin".
Videos posted online shortly after the accident show plumes of gravel and sand lashing through a nearly pitch-black sky.
On the other side, trucks with multiple fishing rods lashed to their grills and S.U.V.s pulling fifth-wheelers rumbled through the sand.
Below is Tate Hill Sands, where the ship carrying Dracula ran aground, its crew missing, its dead skipper lashed to the wheel.
