Gnarled holm oaks offer cool respite on hot days, but otherwise the landscape is raw and uncompromising.

BBC: On the trail in Sardinia

These creatures apparently debase the otherwise breathtaking landscape of strip malls and freeways.

ECONOMIST: Visual blight

The brown and black marbling on her otherwise white fur looks somewhat like the Martian landscape, although that's not why he adopted her.

CNN: His other car is on Mars

But for the time being, Autonomy is a rare bright spot in an otherwise depressing high-tech landscape.

ECONOMIST: Software in the recession

Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.

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