Sentence examples for wilderness like from inspiring English sources

This was wilderness like our children had never seen before.

Politicians who return to office after a spell in the wilderness, like Peter Mandelson, well understand the virtue of perseverance.

The post-apocalyptic landscape, though repeatedly described, is never more than generic wilderness, like the backlot set of a low-budget movie, and never acquires regional specificity.

A wilderness like Sylvania opens clogged arteries of memory and thought, it renews and heals, it is a portal into the mystery and wonder of life.

It's not an untouched wilderness like a mountaintop, but a ramshackle wildness in which people and the land have conspired to strangeness.

The grounds circled by Addison's Walk, near Magdalen College, where C. S. Lewis taught, have the air of a park aspiring to wilderness, like Lewis's imaginary land of Narnia.

The range offers a wilderness-like experience for human visitors.

Then I indulged in a little orgy of consumerism at R.E.I., where the Crusovian romance abides in the aisles of ultra-lightweight survival gear and, especially perhaps, in certain emblems of civilization-in-wilderness, like the stainless-steel Martini glass with an unscrewable stem.

WHEN the proposal finally became law this year, the 35-acre site became the 391st national park, part of a network that includes great wildernesses like the Grand Canyon and Yosemite and urban areas like Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

His fixation on growing into new markets resulted in franchise shifts out of hockey hotbeds like Winnipeg and Minnesota into wildernesses like Phoenix and Dallas.

She painted four bathroom floors herself, including the Rousseau-like wilderness on the sixth floor, the rose garden on 5, the waves crashing on rocks on 3 and the carp pond on 2.