They are allied with environmental groups, who say drilling is a short-term energy fix that will permanently scar this austere but beautiful landscape.

In a concise style, Li blends his sympathy with a careful depiction of the helplessness and stagnation of peasant life against an austere landscape.

His austere landscapes are frequently reproduced in books on Romanticism, and neo-Romantic painters liberally borrow from them today.

DISTANCES are long in the austere landscape of central Washington State.

The way the jagged, austere landscape is conveyed, and that we know nothing about the suicidal protagonist, not even his name, suggest that mundane matters like geography are not Mr. Reygadas's main concern.

These are Niemeyer's buildings, romancing an austere landscape.

The sun was warm, but there was a slight chill to the breeze, the only sign of au- tumn in the austere landscape.

The elder fellow inhabits an austere landscape of grays.

Mr. Fortress painted melancholy and austere landscapes, while Ms. Iles produces paintings and sculptures that bring to mind fantastical child-friendly narratives.

The austere aural landscape of "The Others" makes us listen in the same way as we do when disturbed from sleep, decoding each distant rustle in the darkness, assigning it a malevolent purpose.