Set among the vacant houses of suburban New Mexico, the film offers a bleak perspective on the possibility of growth and renewal.
This is a tremendous find, not just because he discovered all these first veterans of our first war in a vacant lot.
They are often set in quasi-rural areas, with vast parking lots and vacant land surrounding them.
There he unlocked a door and pointed dramatically to a vacant bed, looking beautifully white, wide and deep.
It takes a lot of hard work to appear that vacant, but Pedrad had been perfecting Kim since long before she landed on SNL.
He turned and faced Percival, looking from him to his sandwich with vacant eyes.
The feeling then was reciprocal, and he was proposed for the vacant seat.
Novels are taken up to amuse the vacant hour—in this consists their use.
Mr. Gladstone was invited to the vacant place, but declined.
A man cutting brush in a vacant lot leaned on his axe to look after us.
late 13c., from Old French vacant, from Latin vacantem (nominative vacans), present participle of vacare "to be empty" (see vain). Related: Vacantly.