wasteland

“Come wintertime, it starts to look like a post-apocalyptic wasteland—but in a cool way,” she said.

But many of his ideological precursors hailed government threats and cheered for Big Brother to assert janitorial duties in the “wasteland.”

Another resident, from the northern town of Beit Lahia, told us his area was now a "wasteland", after Israel's army razed it to the ground.

He appeared to mock the president when he said London was not "the wasteland of anarchy" it was sometimes portrayed.

During his speech the prime minister attacked "lies" that are being told about Britain and mocked figures who sought to portray London as "the wasteland of anarchy".