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The islands’ barren landscapes and stark white, cubical houses with their blue-shuttered windows bedecked with geraniums represent the Greek islands to many.
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.
As the OCEL is concerned with language, per se, one would expect such entries to treat the writer's style, and, indeed, the entry on MELVILLE does so; but the treatment is uneven: that for CONRAD, aside from quoting a passage from Heart of Darkness , is barren of comment on language, and that for BURGESS focuses on a quotation of nadtsat' from A Clockwork Orange , with no mention of the author's position (at least in the UK ) as a language guru.
It was quite barren in Nebraska, wherever Nebraska was, four billion years ago.
Betancuria, by far the most attractive and visited inland town on the island, is an oasis of greenery on this barren island.