"One minute Bale's Patrick is a cowering corporate geek and self-described empty shell, the next an arrogant, name-dropping smoothie, the next a hysterical wimp unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, " it said.

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Qasr Al Sarab is in the Liwa Desert, in a region evocatively called the Empty Quarter, and the name is not an instance of poetic license.

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