If I put my mattress back on the bunk I am too close to the light that streams in from the window, so I use the chipboard bunk as a sort of scribble pad of options: butter, a knife, peanut butter and chutney, empty tins of pilchards, bread, a small television set, many books, matches and a sprawl of candles, all in various stages of undress and disintegration".
The East Coast of the US is insanely long: more than 2,000 miles of weaving sprawl hiding all kinds of beauty and strangeness and stuff in New Jersey.
Take just one example that is considered by many the gravest charge of all: that sprawl fosters increased automobile use; longer commutes; and more congestion, carbon emissions and, ultimately, global warming.
I find it rather hard to love English because there are so many kinds of it, and it kind of sprawls all over the world now.
By the time we reach the hangar a short walk away, darkness has descended and a gravel yard is full of men of all ages sprawled across thin mattresses.
The compact scenario was projected to result in lower regional emissions of all pollutants than sprawl, with differences of − 18%, − 3%, and − 14% for NOx, butadiene, and benzene, respectively.
They command a tremendous view of suburban sprawl in all directions.
Metropolitan anonymous sprawl hides all sorts of marginalized people.
Now, of course, the real work begins: dusting off the set of the Gem saloon, allowing the notoriously prickly Milch time to formulate his cowboy coda and, perhaps most challenging of all, corralling the sprawling original cast.
Closer in atmosphere to Asian trading cities such as Hong Kong (due, no doubt, to similar bank secrecy laws and the consequent drug dollar), Panama City's urban sprawl of shimmering skyscrapers is, like all money-laundering centres, a hive of intrigue with its empty dark high-rise luxury apartments for which fictitious occupants pay astronomical rents.
