Sentence examples for sterile landscape from inspiring English sources

The British countryside has instead become a sterile landscape of dormitories and retirement villages.

One showed the sterile landscape around the reflecting pool in front of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, and the oppressive platform-bridge over West Sixty-fifth Street, which connects the central plaza to Juilliard.

This ties in with another interpretation of Pac-Man as the ultimate modern shopper, trapped in a cycle of meaningless consumption and endless binging on electronic treats in a sterile technological landscape.

In an otherwise sterile comedy landscape of 2 Broke Girls and Russell Howard reading the headlines over audience laughter, God bless the commissioner who wasn't too scared of his audience to risk something this weird.

The ruins, the inhumanity, the gradual disappearance of language all create a sterile urban landscape which is the result of hundreds of years of civilization.

Curtis's subjects are the stuff of dreams and memories: formally dressed men and women in empty halls, ghost towns, trains or circus wagons mired in sterile sandy landscapes, Victorian houses abandoned in the desert, ladies in 19th-century dress waiting at closed gates, Civil War soldiers and musicians marching across the landscape trailed by forlorn dogs.

On the beach, where coal mining waste once created a sterile, nightmarish alien landscape, the transformation is even more heartening for those who remember the condition of the area when Dawdon colliery closed in 1991.

Even the landscape — block after sterile block of hotels and office buildings with small shops and takeout restaurants on their lower floors — can contribute to a feeling of displacement.

Dan Graham's quarrel with architecture focused on the white Bauhaus cube that he saw as the source of a sterile seriality in the American landscape and its reverberations in Minimalist sculpture.

Economically important mining operations have adverse environmental impacts: top soil, subsoil and overburden are relocated; resulting mine spoils constitute an unaesthetic landscape and biologically sterile or compromised habitat, and act as source of pollutants with respect to air dust, heavy metal contamination to soil and water bodies.

In these situations, harvest discarding was needless when volunteers were well controlled because the GM impurity in non-GM harvests was well below the EU labelling thresholds; it was useless when OSR contained male-sterile plants or when the landscape was infested by volunteers because large parts of the fields had to be discarded to respect impurity thresholds, which is financially unacceptable.