sertao造句

• Salles moved the setting from Albania to the arid and desperately poor Sertao region in Brazil's northeast.
• They were to build roads and airfields and consolidate control over the territory, known in Portuguese as the " sertao ."
• But after spending some $ 2, 500, all they found was salty water, which is not uncommon in semiarid regions like the sertao.
• "He left the Sertao ( Brazil's drought-prone scrub lands ) at 12 and bought his first store at 18 ."
• Under orders from President Getulio Vargas, they also built airstrips to consolidate control over the vast, untamed tropical territory known in Portuguese as the Sertao.
• His principal musical influences have been the music of Luiz Gonzaga, Forr?and in general the music of the Sertao in the Brazilian North-East.
• He won even wider fame in 1985 when he played the lead role in a 25-installment television miniseries based on " Grande Sertao ."
• The series, which ran on Brazil's largest television channel, reached a huge audience and made Nardy so famous that a university program devoted to the study of the sertao region was named for him.
• Rosa was so enchanted with his guide that soon after completing his collection, " Sangrana, " he began work on " Grande Sertao, " which was hailed as an instant classic when it was published in 1956.
• Chronic drought has devastated Brazil's " sertao, " or northeastern outback, for as long as anyone can remember, and is a key reason the region remains the poor, undernourished cousin of Brazil's prosperous southeast.
• Dedicated to resisting the dominance of Hollywood, finding a truly Brazilian cinematic style and exposing the unexplored lives of real Brazilians in the favelas ( slums ) and the sertao ( drought-parched backlands ), Cinema Novo filmmakers were possessed by a cinematic fever.
• With support from Marshal Candido Rondon _ a pioneer who wired Brazil for the telegraph, took Teddy Roosevelt into the sertao for big game hunting and headed the country's first Indian protection agency _ the brothers founded Brazil's first Indian reservation in 1961, the Xingu Indigenous National Park.
• He often identified with the sertao, the vast stretch of arid backlands in the Brazilian northeast known for hardening its inhabitants . " Dry like a cactus, " was how Furtado described himself, even though he attended law school in playful Rio de Janeiro and made that city his home in Brazil.
• When Rosa, a doctor-turned-diplomat-turned novelist, came to the ranch in the late 1940s to do some literary research for a collection of short stories, Nardy became his guide, accompanying him on horseback and regaling him with stories of the old days in the strife-torn upland plains known as the sertao, the Brazilian version of the Wild West.
• But Rosa's 1956 masterpiece, " Grande Sertao : Veredas, " relied so heavily on a stream-of-consciousness narration, with convoluted stories embedded within convoluted stories, and used so many made-up words that more than a few college graduates found what one breathless critic called " the greatest literary adventure since Ulysses " every bit as difficult to get through.