He was appropriately jocular and inoffensively rambunctious, but he was simply swallowed up by the vast, sprawling, expanse of studio that he had been plonked in.
The town of Rustenburg borders the Magaliesberg nature reserve, a sprawling expanse of high veld grasslands and bush veld savannah, separated by the towering Magaliesberg mountains.
But thanks to an accommodating bend in the highway, the new extension is a sprawling expanse — a wide blanket draped across a luxurious nine acres of land, pier and marine table.
Kerr and I were having this conversation at Wellington's Botanic Garden, a sprawling expanse of lush floral curiosities, manicured lawns and shaded labyrinthine walkways offering some of the most extraordinary views of the city.
Eventually, they fled to Kenya, joining nearly half a million displaced people living in the world's biggest refugee complex, a sprawling expanse of tents and rudimentary houses set in the sun-hammered scrub and sand outside Dadaab.
There are now 2.8 million citizens spread across Mississippi's sprawling expanse of 82 counties, and at mud derbies, catfish fries, county fairs and N.R.A. banquets, Barbour has extended his hand and said "How you doin', I'm Haley" to a lot of them.
A short drive from Oslo is a massive, beautiful forest: the Nordmarka, a sprawling expanse of spruce and birch.
Perhaps the most daunting aspect of getting settled in Berlin is the sheer volume of activity spread across the sprawling expanse of the city.
The camp, a sprawling expanse of canvas tents provided by the United Nations, is outside of the port town of Obock, an almost four-hour drive north of Djibouti city through a barren landscape of volcanic rocks and stunted shrubs marked by occasional goat-herder shanties and camels.
