But there it stands, denuded of most of its landscaping but largely rebuilt, the comfortable, unconventional homestead the Ledners have known for 50 years.
I stood in my now denuded, narrow office, tape measure in hand.
Every morning a throng of Latinos stand on a small mound denuded of grass but choked with poison ivy.
The insect has decimated the Tijuana River Valley, where denuded tree trunks stand in the place of formerly lush habitat.
And a Bears side still missing injured skipper Jim Troughton and the recovering Jonathan Trott could look badly denuded without stand-in skipper Bell too.
Red drapery and silver strips of sheet metal flapped like flags from the upper limbs of the few denuded trees that still stood.
They stood — a dim, ghostly flock — in a grove they had denuded entirely of grass and undergrowth.
With trees denuded, the swimming pools and strong lines of stone walls stood out like rock spines.
Located in the Crete Senese, an area of vast fields punctuated by denuded clay cliffs, lone farmhouses and their cypress-lined approaches stand out against the open space.
It's a committed performance and Young sings with familiar withering inelegance, but it has to be said that, denuded of their tasteful studio arrangements, not all of the songs stand up well to this kind of exposure.
But to some, like Mr. Bess, who do, every building with a top denuded of pressed tin, copper, cast-iron, stone, terra-cotta or even wood cornices and ornamentation stands out like a disfigured part of the urban landscape.
