No sirens or local alert system warned people of the approaching twister, the AP reports; and "even with warning, there are scant places to take cover in the wide-open plain".
Mr. Rykwert cites, with bemused approval, G. K. Chesterton's sneering reaction, decades ago, to New York, with its billboards and scant public places: "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to anyone who was lucky enough to be unable to read".
A frantic editing style tests the patience and there's scant sense of place - though that could be because, as I discovered in the credits, it was mostly shot in Luxembourg.
Your eyes take time to adjust when you step into Frankie's Tiki Room at 3 p.m. Windowless, with scant lighting, the place resembles an urban cave with a scattering of wood-carved odes to pagan gods.
The focus of the Dalai Lama's visit is his message, Dhonden said, because Tibetan tradition places scant value on birthday celebrations.
Besides, she added, her job on the road usually requires working nights, meaning hotel rooms get scant use beyond a place to sleep.
Will the bush be reduced to a vast mechanised place of scant human habitation beyond those specialists who service the robots – a place that exists primarily to service the cities and the export markets?
Add drained vegetables and mix well with your fingers. 5. Place a scant tablespoon of filling in center of a wrapper, brush wrapper rim with egg, and fold, forming a half moon.
(Bayern, in 2001-02, and Kaiserslautern, in 1995-96, wequallyally quick out of the blocks; Dortmund won the league on those occasions, too) Fifth place was scant reward for their sophisticated pressing game.
This radical departure occurred twice within a 2-year span, pulling me out of my comfort zone into a place of scant man-made distractions.
