blot on the landscape
Example Sentences
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“Such investments will soon be stranded assets — a blot on the landscape and a blight on investment portfolios.”
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022
“Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape and a blight on investment portfolios.”
From The Verge • Apr. 4, 2022
"Westfield is an appalling blot on the landscape," he said.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2013
But like Bastion itself, the detention facility Britain has erected within its walls has become a blot on the landscape.
From Time • May 30, 2013
Of course the scenery is beautiful—almost too trite to write—but the beauty is lonesome and terrifying, and my city-bred soul longs for some good, homely, human "blot on the landscape."
From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
