Sentence examples for savage landscape from inspiring English sources
In the context of the ice, fire and fur that surrounded them, the metal objects functioned as elemental tools for survival in a savage landscape that recalled the Viking origins of Shakespeare's borrowed hero.
Its images are hard to resist: a meadow of buttercups washing up to the handsome front of Salthill House in County Donegal; Carl Wright's astonishing garden "on loan from a savage landscape" in the Burren, County Clare; the enchanting cottage orné superbly restored by potter Nicholas Mosse and his wife in the glen at Kilfane, County Kilkenny.
A vertiginous work of ravines, rocks, follies and bridges, 25 hectares of toy savage landscape formed out of old quarries by the engineer Adolphe Alphand under the direction of Baron Haussmann, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is the alter ego of the straight-lined order of the Baron's famous boulevards.
In "Savage Lands," she transported readers to the young colony of Louisiana in the early 1700s, setting a complex love story against a fecund yet relentlessly cruel landscape that became as important to the plot as the characters themselves.
He experienced at first hand and for weeks on end "the jagged and fierce landscapes, brilliant light and savage colors" that Delacroix had experienced just 100 years earlier.
Coleman had been cast into the private torment of tinnitus, though that percussionary little word was entirely inappropriate to the savage new aural landscape in which he lived.
David and I found a story of patriotism and duty, ambition, lust, fear and a maelstrom of human feeling as rich and savage as the landscape on which it takes place.
His novels have long intrigued film-makers, but despite a body of work that builds on the cinematic cornerstones of lyrical imagery, mythic landscapes, savage violence and spare, quotable dialogue, McCarthy's books have always been considered too uncompromising, dense and morally complex for easy translation to the big screen.
Though he now divides his time between Austria and Oslo, he still keeps a cottage in the area and, though his settings are abstract, the savage grandeur of the landscape (its fishing cottages and isolated villages, the lure of a dangerous sea) seeps into his work.
Her own history with the lake goes back a dozen years, to a time when she was working on her 1994 book, "Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape Wars of the American West".
