| Except in this story, which sticks closely to Mr. McCarthy's original text, the landscape is that of a devastated and almost peopleless North America. |
| The next day, he was in Ashgabat, the surreal, peopleless capital of Turkmenistan, a hermetic state where the post-Soviet dictator renamed the days of the week and devoted a national day to the muskmelon. |
| He sat alone with the lieutenant in the peopleless city of Belgrade and waited for his captors. |
| Five minutes later he was plodding steadily ahead of his big Mackenzie hound into the peopleless barrens to the south and west. |
