Word: barren
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...Delta lies vacant and barren all day; it broods in the evening and it cries all night. I get the impression that the land is cursed and suffering, groaning under the awful weight of history's sins. I can understand what Faulkner meant: it must be loved or hated...or both. It's hard to imagine how any music but the blues could have taken root in the black soil around...
...Sorensen's major points are barren, his prose does little to amplify them and in fact conceals their lack of substance. Politics, he asserts...
...when they have carefully, even agonizingly selected that House themselves. But, confined by distribution quotas required by the University, the subjective elements can wield only small influence. They can be only small oases in a desert of mechanical necessities. But a desert without any oases at all is terrifyingly barren. What better proof can be offered than Yale...
...than any other man in Europe," and King George III begged him to come to London as the royal physician (he refused, on the ground that he preferred to remain in Lichfield). The age's other great eccentric, Samuel Johnson, dismissed him as a provincial from an "intellectually barren" town. His current biographers tend to side with Coleridge, and there is little difference between them, but their books are less interesting as studies of genius than as revelations of the wild theorizing that passed for reason as England's age of scientific reason began...
...years ago, this barren acreage looked to the unknowing eye like plenty of sun-baked nothing. But ebullient Real Estate Promoter Thomas Darlington and Partner Kenyon T. Palmer, who bought the sand for as little as $100 an acre, saw nuggets in every boulder. Their original 800 acres, broken up into two-acre lots, have all been sold for as much as $10,000 a lot, and 1,600 more acres have been added. Fifty houses have already been built, and three or four more are started each week. The splendor of Carefree's citizenry encourages Promoter Darlington...