On a long, deserted street near some old shipyards, I punched it, and was impressed with how fast the car felt.

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For example, you're walking along a deserted street and suddenly a whole platoon of cavalry wearing feathered hats starts riding down the road towards you.

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And there are pictures like "The Bombed City" (1942), "Bombed Regency Staircase, Upper Brook Street, Mayfair" (c. 1942) and the "Deserted Street in Bloomsbury" (1942) with its elegant lamppost unlighted and all in shades of gray.

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Head bartender Jan Warren admits that first-time guests are sometimes "a little freaked out" by Dutch Kills' location on a deserted industrial street with a spooky lit-up "BAR" sign.

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Thanks to stylized dialogue and obviously artificial settings, viewers are always at some remove from the action whether it be on a nearly deserted rain-soaked street at midnight or in a sparsely furnished, smoke-filled room lighted only by a bare bulb.

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We walked in a warm drizzle along Main Street, which was nearly deserted, with a few parked cars and no pedestrians.

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At the southernmost tip of Manhattan, Battery Park was dark and deserted, as was much of Wall Street after normal working hours.

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The hotel and several nearby buildings are now locked in by blast walls and the street in front of the hotel entrance is completely deserted.

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