No, the character, played by the brilliant Benedict Cumberbatch, is an oasis of calm.
For income-focused investors, Real Estate Investment Trusts have been an oasis in the desert lately.
Las Vegas' success as an oasis for sin-seekers owes itself to a lack of any other trade.
Figuring out how to create an oasis of relaxation in the middle of a crazed travel schedule?
The service sector has been India's salvation over the last decade, an oasis of remarkable productivity growth.
But descend the steps, hewn from wooden rail ties, and you enter an oasis of playful, post-modern elegance.
The beautiful wetlands that served as an oasis for wildlife have been destroyed.
With its extensive collection of African and Asian art, the Majestic building is an oasis in a cultural desert.
"Playing football has been an oasis for me at the moment, " he added.
From the countries of the war-ravaged Great Lakes region, such as Congo and Rwanda, Nairobi appears an oasis of calm.
Beds are voluptuous and the quiet rooms look onto the garden, an oasis of calm with an inviting timber-decked pool.
The Infosys campus, on the outskirts of dust-choked Bangalore, is an oasis of manicured green lawns, swimming pools, gyms and tennis courts.
He's part of a new breed of self-made businessman, who says his neighborhood in Moscow's toniest suburb is an oasis of luxury.
He opened up his new place, Stanley's(ph), even before the Quarter officially reopened, an oasis on a street full of empty storefronts.
Also at risk from the war next door could be Albania's status as an oasis of religious tolerance in a sea of sectarian hatred.
We bootstrapped the business, but key successes (each seemed like an oasis in a cashless desert) breathed new life and cash flow into the business.
Set in the midst of parched lands, it's an oasis of mango and banana trees, home to deer, peacocks and several other species of birds.
The Israeli team sprayed acacia trees in an oasis in the southern desert region of the country with a sugar solution containing the insecticide Spinosad.
The two buzzing squares make Piata Libertati feel like an oasis of relative calm, its trees offering shade to anyone who cares to sit and watch life sweep past.
Then you'll find yourself in an oasis of beauty and solitude, in a hotel located in the Daintree Rainforest and right by the Great Barrier Reef.
Indeed, ministers are seizing on Liverpool's enthusiasm for such ideas as having a directly elected mayor with the relief of a thirsty desert traveller stumbling on an oasis.
When she reached the epicentre of the crowd an oasis of space suddenly opened up and she cartwheeled forward, bumping into a distinguished looking man sitting amid the mayhem.
And the Cbeebies website is likely to provide an oasis of calm when my three-and-a-half-year-old son - strung out on Christmas e-numbers - becomes too much of a handful.
Rugby league, with its sets of six, is ideal for such an approach, and the summariser is often an oasis of calm and good sense as the commentators call the action.
When completed, the museum, located on Saadiyat Island, will resemble a perforated dome floating above the water, designed to represent rays of sunlight passing through date palm fronds in an oasis.
But if the firm is still imprisoned in the assumptions of shareholder capitalism, then the sales unit focused on noble customer purpose will be operating like an oasis in an unfriendly desert.
Sure, they're "poised" and have "momentum, " but they made sustained profits sound like something way off in the distance like an oasis in the desert or a regulator taking a bank to court.
With persisting worries in the European Economy and a sluggish recovery in the Asia Pacific and Africa region, the U.S. market could serve as an oasis for the company which is seeking growth ahead.
SHIK. Mr Ceka says he has already mopped up seven gangs in the north and around Tirana, the capital, which has become an oasis of comparative calm, luring migrants from the rest of the country.
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