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godforsaken
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godforsaken
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adjective
a godforsaken place
synonyms
: desolate, dismal, dreary, bleak, wretched, miserable, gloomy, deserted, abandoned, forlorn, neglected, remote, backward.
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Voyeurismo.(Travel)(The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; ...where you live. Bigger and stronger tribes drove you down from the better land higher up the slopes, so you fell back on a godforsaken place full of reptiles, insects and malarial encephalitis. West Papua's rainforests are hell; but at least you feel safe and...
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The city in the wilderness. (headquarters of British Airways in Harmondsworth, England)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...an intricate spatial matrix for the variety and activity of working life. Harmondsworth has from time immemorial been a godforsaken place. Traditionally a barren moor to the west of London stalked by highwaymen and splattered with a few dingy hamlets, it was...
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Winter fishing.(Editor's log)
Magazine article from: National Fisherman
; ...deck of a fishing boat in the Gulf of Maine or the Bering Sea in late January and send him to Georges Bank or some other Godforsaken place, tell him he's going spend a week, day and night, stumbling over checkers on an icy deck, the boat rolling from rail to...
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Jim Shaw's top ten.(art events)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...paces with a pistol, and plays a carol on a penorgan. A one-woman variety show for Jesus. 2 It's hard to imagine a more godforsaken place than Slab City, California, at the southern end of the festering Salton Sea. Yet this is home to SALVATION MOUNTAIN and...
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Port Angeles: An Apology.(Poems)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Confrontation
; ...haberdashery for big and/or wide Northwestern skulls. I am sorry, lo siento, for the acid rain sunsets, the purpling of the horizons at dusk, when every Godforsaken place shuts down and all the day vampires scramble back inside their coffins.
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In defence of the Sacred Heart.(Back Burner)
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times
; ...front of Jesus, face pressed tight to his chest and holding on for dear life. Tears filled my eyes. Even here, in this Godforsaken place, and everywhere, in every dungeon of despair, the Sacred Heart beats. There was no suffering in which the Sacred Heart...
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Once in a lifetime.(Story)(Short Story)
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; ...the street sticking with the heat of it, arguing the merits of a hirecar and Only a fool would've thought to come to this Godforsaken place you said, and Who said anybody thought? Jamie said. His martini phase, him just shrugging and The motel's got a pool he...
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Water and ice.(Antarctica tour)
Magazine article from: School Administrator
; ...curiosity were rarely matched by others. I heard a lot of, Who in his right might mind would want to visit such a desolate and Godforsaken place? Isn't it freezing? and What's to see? There isn't anything there. Oh, what you missed! Yes, it was a bit chilly, but you...
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Shots in the dark: what a gritty film about 19th-century Australia can tell us about imperialism today.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT--MOVIE COLUMN)(The Proposition)(Movie review)
Magazine article from: Interview
; ...the psychotic leader Arthur (Danny Huston)--but also against the colony's endemic chaos. He further describes it as this godforsaken place, while a soused upper-class English cutthroat (played with rhetorical glee by John Hurt) labels it this godforsaken hole...
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Poet of the hidden God.(poet R.S. Thomas)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...in his congregation, who struggled mutely to endure on the barren land, made him wonder where God was in this apparently godforsaken place and what his own role as priest there could possibly be. Writing poetry was his way of pondering these questions with unflinching...
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