In her mind's eye there was no painted backdrop but a stark, sere landscape that stretched far beyond the visible horizon.

The trees did not originally tower in isolation over the sere landscape of scrub but stood in dense forest.

I rowed ashore and went for a hike, clambering across a sere landscape of crusty rocks, which cracked underfoot like pottery shards.

A sere landscape, rasping with cicadas, has its own charm, but around the house and pool you do want summer greenery and colour, and that means a different cast of plants, and water.

Daneel looked across the devastated ruins of Chicago, and from there to the sere landscape beyond.

It seemed impossible that this postcard vista - a sere wintery landscape of heavy forest, distant mountains and a shimmering reservoir - could share the view with a major metropolis.

As he spoke, the sere landscape was replaced by healthier woodland, and the empty air filled with the proper sounds of wildlife and wind-in-the-branches.

The walls were decorated with a mural of lush meadows, an incongruous contrast to Sexburga's sere landscape.

Into the sere landscapes of a Hemingwayesque novel about men at war comes this Roman Catholic conscience straight out of Graham Greene, full of doubt, anger and hard-earned, hard-edged wisdom.

Countless stars twinkled madly in the ebon dome of the sky, and the near-full moon on high etched the sere landscape with bleached light and Stygian shadow.