Sentence examples for stark wilderness from inspiring English sources

It cuts a steel swath through the stark wilderness where Israel and Egypt meet, glinting in the desert sun as it snakes across barren hills and sandy plateaus.

There she is, formidably trailing a departing lover across Sweden's stark wilderness in the video for "I Follow Rivers", a song that was remixed by the Magician and topped charts around Europe three years ago, selling 1.2 million copies (it also featured on the soundtracks for the films Blue is the Warmest Colour and Rust and Bone).

The captain escorted us for the day through a stark, gorgeous wilderness of towering brown and red cliffs crumbling into blue water.

Hardcore nature-lovers drive an hour to Joshua Tree National Park (just north of the Coachella Valley), over a thousand square miles of stark high-desert wilderness.

We know because the serpent reappears in the wilderness, in the stark desert landscape that is Eden's opposite.

The Valley of 10,000 Smokes stood in stark contrast to this postcard Alaskan wilderness.

The wolf's-eye view of American wilderness is not quite so stark, but today's untrammeled landscapes are fragmented and shrinking.

On Friday the pianist Ben Model will accompany Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Bride of Glomdal" (1926), an unusually lighthearted (and reportedly, substantially improvised) lyrical drama from the Danish Mr. Dreyer, here making rapturous use of the Norwegian wilderness just before embarking on the stark, modernist adventure of "The Passion of Joan of Arc".

For them it is a clash of civilisations, a clash between the romantic dreams about nature cherished by soft, "chicken-in-the-microwave" urbanites and the stark reality of life in the heart of a natural wilderness.

The film is marked by a stark, visually expansive style rooted firmly in a historical frontier wilderness.

This is a stark reference to the choreographer's past, summoning memories of the wilderness drug years during which it seemed he might never work again.