Rendered in winter grays by the cinematographers Pierre Lhomme and Walter Wottitz, France seems populated only by German soldiers and lone Resistance fighters.
And it is true that on a Friday night at Nopa the communal table can sometimes seem populated by men dressed to mow your lawn.
For far too long it's also puzzling why the neighboring town, a decentered heap of undifferentiated shacks with peeling paint and low illumination, seems populated only by shuffling old people who appear to be abusing their meds.
It is situated on the third floor of the Time Warner Center, a baffling place that, on any given weekday, seems populated exclusively by tourists, sharply dressed professionals taking two-hour lunch meetings, and people with the aura of those C.G.I. figures in architectural renderings people who are there just because they're there.
Hapless high school student Rick Stevens (an offhanded Nat Wolff from "The Fault in Our Stars"), who lives in a world that seems populated by rejects from TV's "Arrested Development," makes a bet with the dweeby son of a local mobster that he can bed class beauty — and all around good girl — Nina (Selena Gomez) in short order.
While the major tech companies still turn up in strength at events like BETT, their stands seemed sparsely populated.
Chase-Brand has since experienced groundbreaking moments in biology and medicine in a diverse life that seems as populated with florid characters as a Doctorow novel.
At times "The Master" seems entirely populated by monsters, though occasionally someone — in particular Dodd's cynical son Val Jesse Plemonss) — will sound a note of common sense.
Even Gatsby's parties (shot in Montreal) seem sparsely populated, as if the production couldn't afford a few more dancing extras to fill out the scenes.
But even without a houseful of children in residence, the apartment seems generously populated, thanks to works of art and family inheritances that speak to Mr. Kamara's deep roots in his homeland.
