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Sula left the apartment, negotiated the crowds at the Textile Market, then ducked down a sunblasted side street, trying to keep on the shady side.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

As I'm driving across the sunblasted expanse, listening to Linda Ronstadt croon "Blue Bayou" on the radio, I'm reminded of a particular Hunter Thompson passage in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, where he describes the Love Generation and its subsequent fallout:

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Although the filmmaker might have made more of it, the city is a memorable presence - a smashed terrarium, half-empty, partially ruined, at once sunblasted and submerged in swamp water and sweat.

SF Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

Now fifteen years later Reacher stood in the Chateau Marmont’s sunblasted parking lot and said, “You found another body.”

Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007

Now fifteen years later Reacher stood in the Chateau Marmont's sunblasted parking lot and said, "You found another body.

Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007