slag-heap

• “It's concerned mainly with a father (Viggo Mortensen) and son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) slogging across a slag-heap American landscape after the planet has suffered an unexplained apocalypse that killed the flora, the fauna and most of the spectrum (though the sickly light from a blighted sun does manage to produce one wan rainbow).”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Social Network': Password Is Perfection

• “Most of the flora and fauna that existed there for thousands or millions of years can no longer survive in the slag-heap once it's been "reclaimed" by invasive species.”

  Our mountains are not for sale

• “Also, there is a lifeless moon orbiting this slag-heap in case you get lost.”

  Darth Sidious: People Person

• “He made a big splash, but also amassed a slag-heap of debt--so much ballast after the old "new economy" bubble popped.”

  Forbes: Sweet Sorrow? Levy To Delist Vivendi From NYSE

• “For an hour the pageant wound through the dejected street, pursuing neither method nor set route, till it came to a deserted slag-heap, selected for the speech-making.”

  The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays

• “Baudelaire, for instance, writing a poem about a slag-heap.”

  The Road to Wigan Pier

• “The driver took no notice, He drove up to the top of the slag-heap, uncoupled the trucks, and ran the engine back to the pit, presently returning with a fresh string of trucks.”

  The Road to Wigan Pier

• “Even when a slag-heap sinks, as it does ultimately, only an evil brown grass grows on it, and it retains its hummocky surface.”

  The Road to Wigan Pier

• “A slag-heap is at best a hideous thing, because it is so planless and functionless.”

  The Road to Wigan Pier

• “When the dirt comes up-from the pit it is loaded on to trucks and an engine runs these to the top of another slag-heap a quarter of a mile away and there leaves them.”

  The Road to Wigan Pier

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