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But it is well worth a visit to the top (a short hike from the bus stop) to peer down into the bleak, barren crater emitting puffs of sulfurous fumes and contrasting starkly with the colorful vegetation all around it.
These two, along with the rest of their generation, are often charged with having reduced music to a set of games, making it schematic and emotionally barren.
Coetzee, the Booker Prize-winning white South African novelist and author of Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) and Life & Times of Michael K (1983), tells of barren spaces.
(Britain's war with Argentina over a few barren islands, which Thatcher prosecuted with the zeal of a Churchill, has been compared to two bald men fighting over a comb.)
I'm in a strange, barren, surreal setting and there are lots of snakes.