Far from it, Belgrade was for me an intellectual and cultural oasis in the ruins of Yugoslavia.
"It's a cultural oasis; there are people who have been going for generations."
They line Audubon Terrace, a cultural oasis that is really a courtyard on the west side of Broadway, just north of West 155th Street.
At the same time she is determined to remain true to those devotees who feel proprietary about their own special cultural oasis.
The crucial thing about Bookmark however, is that to the town and wider area it acts as a cultural oasis.
With a conservatory, opera and symphony orchestra, the Queen City is a cultural oasis.
Texas and Florida aren't cultural oases, know what I'm saying?
Birds Eye View has provided a cultural oasis in which we get to see and celebrate the full potential of that missing half.
This cultural oasis boasts plenty of artwork worth splurging on.
The books, increasingly dog-eared, were a cultural oasis as well as entertainment.