Seeing it again here, outside the aridness of a big international survey, I found myself paying more attention to real estate than anything else.

North from the tower the aridness turned to desert.

The aridness of the region made agriculture difficult, and its distance from the sea cut it off from much trade.

In death investigation, the term mummy refers to a dead person whose body has been exposed to extreme cold or aridness.

It was somehow like a narrow line of whitecaps moving impossibly over aridness.

The aridness, the dessication, the lifelessness of everything about was somehow shocking.

In the aftermath of the countercultural 1960's, the very students who had protested the aridness of university life stayed on to become its victims.

I was amazed at the beauty of France after the aridness of North Africa.

Now we have been left in the darkness and in the thick forest and in the aridness of the desert."

They rise above the aridness and pretense of the art world, and in their unclouded affection for American life they resemble at least one artist.

Mole poblano, a spicy dark red sauce with a hint of desert aridness, enhances the combination; the creamy greens douse the fires.

Book Report: 'A Great Aridness'

During the first dream the dragons had spoken of Krynn's aridness and of Tarris's hidden ability to save people by finding liquid with a stick.

The aridness of the island - also attributed to the fallout from Perseus' feat - and its treeless mountains are at first glance more off-putting than welcoming.

The first time I went back after moving, I could barely contain my excitement, silently urging the N train forward from the aridness of Wall Street.

We travelled through the scorched aridness of the Scinde desert, lived in the Himalayas facing the peaks of snow, saw cities and mud-walled villages.

If 'philosophical inquiries' provided material for Tolkien to brood on, these 'lyric cores'gave him the stimulus to go on brooding, to keep philosophy from aridness.

William deBuys is the author of "A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest."

A similar aridness tinges "B-Minor," a folk tale about a sinister stranger (Salgado) who challenges a village shoemaker (Russotto) to a song contest.

That spring, however, with both her children off to college, she became increasingly aware of a certain aridness in her marriage and felt besieged by the demands of a new full-time job.

Despite the aridness, the residents of the province are proud tillers of the earth and like most Nguni tribes in Southern Africa they practise animal husbandry to supplement their diets.

Irrigating enough of this crop can require anywhere from 900 to 1,800 gallons per pair of jeans (depending on lots of variables like the aridness of the region it is grown in).

We adore all the stunning photos from our readers this week, from the aridness of Jordan to the green of Ireland, to sweeping views in Utah, New York and Peru.

Even when painting children in the midst of nature, as in Niños, a subject long associated with beauty and hope, his treatment of the landscape and the children's facial expressions suggest aridness and sadness.

"They want water, I give them water - everyone," said Mr. Jeppiar, a most happy dispenser of liquid patronage during the dry days when grass-roots constituents are parched in a city shimmering from aridness.