wind-blasted

These ten small islands are so wind-blasted and desolate that they were uninhabited until 1462.

Jesse Kornbluth: Cesaria Evora (1941-2011): One of the Great Divas, Too Little Known Jesse Kornbluth 2011

Other families didn't have as much foresight; they arrived on the wind-blasted Wyoming range with no warm clothing.

Memorializing a Painful Chapter of History Stephanie Simon 2011

Or the nation's wind-blasted high streets empty bar the occasional piece of tumbleweed?

Who's the thief here, Tesco? | Carole Cadwalladr 2012

However, with some of its natural endowments melting away in the heat, the region's wind-blasted shores could be set to become a major source of power to a country that suffers from perennial underinvestment in energy infrastructure, if a major wind farm project on the lakeside takes off.

Winds of Change Peter Guest 2011

He ignored them, noting the feeble, wind-blasted hedge that straggled around the side of the house, behind which the report said the assault had happened.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

Although inspired by an anecdote about the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche , the dramatic terrain will be more familiar to anyone who loves the minimalist severity of Samuel Beckett 's plays: an old man and a younger woman, alone in a weathered cabin on a desolate and wind-blasted landscape.

Picking Out Eye Candy Steve Dollar 2011

Mr. Dallas took the name Abdalqadir al-Sufi and set up his own sect, the Murabitun or "the people of the outposts" before settling into a wind-blasted mansion named Achnagairn near Inverness in the Scottish highlands.

Malaysian Muslims Go for Gold, But It's Hard to Make Change 2010

I know I'm not alone in being swept away like this: When you look out on wind-blasted peaks that sweep down into valleys of frosted trees - when you are "out there" among the eloquence of the elements - thought of this "romantic" type comes in purer form.

John Wihbey: After Copenhagen Chaos, A Bit of Emerson for the Soul 2009

Above ground, wind-blasted ice crystals can erode plant tissues that extend above the protective snow cover.

Arctic environments north of the treeline 2009

The camera follows Alemseged up the wind-blasted hillside where Selam's face looks up coyly from the dark soil and he carefully brushes aside the loose dirt and lifts up the skull announcing the dawn of a new day in paleoanthropology.

Meet the Ancestors 2009