There are precious few American songs as great as (to name some) "Idiot Wind" (1975), "Isis" (1976), "When He Returns" (1979), "Every Grain of Sand" (1981), "Blind Willie McTell" (1983), and "Cold Irons Bound" and "Not Dark Yet," from the 1997 album "Time Out of Mind".
It's an action movie set in the dystopia to end all dystopias, a hellscape of fire, rot, sand, and blind, mutant, roving guitarists.
These 'fire-lances' were widespread in use by the early 12th century, featuring hollowed bamboo poles as tubes to fire sand particles (to blind and choke), lead pellets, bits of sharp metal and pottery shards, and finally large gunpowder-propelled arrows and rocket weaponry.
I made my way back to my hotel in the darkness, the sand stinging my face, blinding me.
I took the e-tron through sand drifts and over blind rocky dunes.
So much blinding, blowing heavy sand.
Nigel Dunnett advises blinding off with sand before sowing.
He said that the cause might have been that the driver fell asleep, but that it is also possible that the driver might have been momentarily blinded by blowing sand.
These parched beasts had died with their necks stretched in agony in the sand and now upright and blind and lurching askew with scraps of blackened leather hanging from the fretwork of their ribs they leaned with their long mouths howling after the endless tandem suns that passed above them.
During the North African Campaign of the World War II, "allied and German troops were several times forced to halt in mid-battle because of sandstorms caused by khamsin... Grains of sand whirled by the wind blinded the soldiers and created electrical disturbances that rendered compasses useless".
Through the propaganda onslaught of "international professional troublemakers" and "paid actors," who operate with "hundred million or billion dollar budgets," Zoe has been deceived into a blind anti-oil sands fury indoctrinated into a "quasi-new, pagan religion" where she believes "the Earth is warming and it's because we're burning oil".
