French paintings of harems, for instance, tend to focus more on flesh and the availability of women, whereas British harem paintings present intimate, tranquil domestic scenes, devoid of lasciviousness.
A fellow-student, Boris Becker (not the tennis player), takes powerful, precise photographs of landscapes, buildings and street scenes devoid of human presence, while Simone Nieweg, one of a number of Becher students championed by the Goethe-Institut in London, focuses her talents on subdued studies of fields and allotments that punctuate the industrial Ruhr and lower Rhine regions.
In doing so, SOPHIE and PC Music have created a scene devoid of the macho, lad-driven elements underpinning the house revival.
Wireless network surveillance applications are characterized by a wide variety of scene content, ranging from complex motion sequences, e.g., crowd or traffic monitoring, to surveillance of scenes mostly devoid of significant motion, e.g., fire and home monitoring.
They included reinterpretations of the Annunciation and the Resurrection as biblical scenes either devoid of their characters or populated with repetitive images of the artist's signature grinning man.
Still, even with the outcry over bonuses, the British financial scene remains devoid of a human symbol to define the public distaste.
Moreover, the scenes are always devoid of people or signs of human activity.
He gives us the balcony scene almost totally devoid of narrative or characterization (and of dancing for Romeo), though his device of making the famous two pause, amid their first declaration of love, to kneel and pray side by side is a novel effect.
But the music Gounod wrote for this scene is almost entirely devoid of sensuality.
Though devoid of music, scenes pulse with the rhythms of brutality as our antihero sharpens a knife to the beat of a metronome, and gurgled screams echo off screen.
Many of the trips have been to the highlands in southern Chechnya, where the fighting is often intense but devoid of the grim scenes of destroyed apartment houses and terrified civilians that typify Grozny.
