On the screen, Liam Neeson fought his way through a barren artic landscape, battered by the weather.
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Such brilliant colors are a sign of life in what was once thought to be a barren environment.
As well as ending a barren spell, the win marked Aberdeen's first away league victory since August's match in Hamilton.
At that, all of Alcina's powers are broken, the temple collapses, and her lush island is transformed into a barren desert.
The North Cape is found in a barren, dry and mostly uninhabited area of Norway called Finnmark, an alarmingly desolate town.
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But private-equity firms are anxious to return money to their profit-starved investors and take some cash for themselves too, after a barren few years.
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Agnes DeWitt, a young Swabian nun living on a barren reach of North Dakota, discovers, on the convent piano, a sensuous love for Chopin.
Madura is a barren island, and the Madurese are known throughout Indonesia for being hard-headed survivors who are ready to fight for their living.
The determined Scot had to break a barren run at his home circuit to win the first race, not having won there aboard a superbike since 1995.
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape.
The government resettled them on a barren hillside in Kowloon.
Now the hills are a barren brown in all directions.
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The area, once a barren and bitterly contested site, has since given way to the beginnings of construction for a long awaited "Freedom Tower, " or the 1 World Trade Center.
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Summer, despite being the time where players have the most free time, is often a barren wasteland where hardly anything worthwhile is released, which has been especially true this year.
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It is not undeserved: he has succeeded in transforming a barren land into one that has 18, 000 kilometres (11, 400 miles) of tarmac roads and a network of schools and clinics.
McLaren have now set the pace in the the last four practice sessions and will be aiming to end a barren spell of 10 races without a podium finish on Sunday.
But what a barren victory: how can he or any other Israeli centrist persuade Israel's religious hawks to accept the need to give ground on Jerusalem, for example, while America has a president who is not willing to make such a demand?
In 1996 they came close to a fresh clash, over a few barren islets not far from Edremit.
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But their bowlers struggled to take wickets on a slow and barren pitch, with off-spinner Jason Krejza being hammered for a demoralising 76 runs off 11 overs following his 0-123 in the first innings.
But for a landowner, planning permission can turn barren fields into a goldmine.
They frequently rebelled under Venetian and then Ottoman occupation, with southern strongholds like Sfakia (a rocky, barren territory centred on port village Hora Sfakion) remaining unconquered.
In London alone, Reynolds has led dozens of covert digs with hundreds of flower-empowered followers to transform derelict dirt on street corners, roadways and roundabouts into places of rediscovered horticultural beauty -- one of his favorite projects, Reynolds says, is a lavender field planted in a once-barren median on Westminster Bridge Road.
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The lion's share of U.S. drone missions are flown by Air Force pilots stationed at Creech, a tiny outpost in the barren Nevada desert, 20 miles north of a state prison and adjacent to a one-story casino.
Driving towards the peninsula's tip, it's clear that human settlement has hardly made a scratch on this barren landscape.
The modern world has not been kind to the tribes scraping a living from the barren fringes of the desert.
Interest, therefore, was based on an unnatural act, that of treating wealth as though it was fertile, when it was as barren as a mule.
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Spewing volcanoes and forbidding lava fields make for a land of beautiful, barren expanses and infinite adventure.
Everything from a failure to acknowledge a birthday to my own barren wall is there in the open for all to see.
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