At the same time, the parched desert climate was becoming increasingly drier.
Burri quickly broadened his scope, working with burlap, plastic, ceramic, Cellotex (the same insulation material favored by Richard Artschwager), and acrovinilico, a commercial coating that dries on the canvas to look like a parched riverbed.
Financial markets reacted like a parched man reaching an oasis.
Brown lawns aren't the same, in economic impact, as parched rangeland, desiccated farmland or ashen forests, but they make themselves felt nonetheless.
Global warming is expected to lead to hotter, drier summers that reduce the amount of rainfall available for plant irrigation, at the same time as the increasingly parched soil requires more water, according to a report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
"He was living like ourselves – on parched corn".
But his goal was like water on a parched tongue.
It was like water on a parched tongue.
Or do you peel off those sweaty gloves, the long-sleeve shirt that keeps out the UV rays, the wide-brimmed hat that does the same, and turn the hose from those parched basil seedlings to your steaming head?
Puppetry allows for magical miniaturisation, brilliantly deployed here to depict the terrible cycles of war over centuries, using the same cast against a backdrop of scarlet flames, parched deserts and glittering Lurex rivers.
