Oblivion centres on a late 21st century drone repairman named Jack Harper (Cruise) who patrols an abandoned, ruined Earth that was mostly destroyed in a war with alien invaders 60 years earlier (humanity now lives above the clouds in sky cities).
The Sacré-Coeur church, where I had my first communion, was mostly destroyed, but the cross stood defiantly in the ruins.
Though Kobani is mostly in ruins and the threat from Isis has not disappeared, its people are very conscious their city has become a symbol of Kurdish heroism and determination, the equivalent of Verdun in France or Stalingrad in Russia.
Tintern Abbey, made famous by William Wordsworth's poem, is one of many (mostly ruined) abbeys, priories, and castles scattered across the Welsh countryside.
Built in 1385 and now mostly ruined, it is still possible to climb the towers' spiral staircases for a glimpse of the views its medieval inhabitants would have enjoyed over the Rother Valley.
By Hendrik Hertzberg In a season of dolor — when the news is mostly of economic ruin, climatic foreboding, the abduction of children, and, of course, terrorism, war, and rumors of war — the rescue of the Quecreek Nine was an interlude of gladness.
The rightwing populist masses of the 1930s were mostly drawn from the economically ruined lower middle class.
While the outer concrete walls were mostly intact, everything else was ruined, covered by dirty tree branches, leaves, glass and debris.
In Pagan (founded c. 849), architecture is the dominant art; except for the big brick icons, mostly ruined, sculpture and painting play a subordinate role.
Jahanpanah's ruins are mostly concentrated in South Delhi in the present suburbs of Kalu Sarai, Bijaymandal, Adchini, Begumpur village, IIT, Delhi crossing, Aurobindo Marg, Malviya Nagar, Panchsheel Enclave South, Sadhana Enclave, Press Enclave road, in the urban village of Chirag Delhi, Tuhghlaqabad and Qutub Minar.
