How To Use Desolation In A Sentence

The general theme of the elegies is the sorrow and desolation created by the destruction of Jerusalem [2] in 586 B.C.: the last poem (v.) is a prayer for deliverance from the long continued distress. Introduction to the Old Testament
We topped the rise, encountering more of that lumberman 's desolation on the other side.
But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
The barren trees were in tune with the sense of desolation all around.
As soon as Christ was alone with his disciples he gave them a description of those desolations which is recorded in the following chapter, and is so plain, and made such an impression on the Sermons on Various Important Subjects

| Reply too …. much … … blue dong but yeah watchmen is my all time favourate book …. .but i didint enjoy the film however the soundtrack was amazing, esp. the times are a’ changin’ and desolation row EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Watchmen tonight…
Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
The real monster in them, he said later, is the amused narrator, ‘the young foreigner who passed gaily through these scenes of desolation, misinterpreting them to suit his childish fantasy’.
Those songs are so full of life and spirit here, it's impossible not to be swept up in their grandeur and occasional sadness and desolation.
A season of such hope had ended in utter desolation. Times, Sunday Times
Whom those resemble that are morose, unsociable, and unconversable, and affect a melancholy retirement; they are like these solitary creatures that take delight in desolations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
You know it has been used by thousands -- by millions -- and has strewed the land with desolation, and peopled hell with its victims; and you cannot but acknowledge that you would at once cease to make the liquor, did you not _hope it would continue to be used_. Select Temperance Tracts
Sand-engirded, alone, then first she knew desolation. Poems and Fragments
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house _divided_ against a house falleth. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition
But it was dark already and the blackness outside was underlining her desolation. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
The film's landscape of urban desolation must have taken some ingenuity to achieve.
The barren trees were in tune with the sense of desolation all around.
In Brazil, though rich in luxuriant vegetable and animal life, there is no history – all is new and progressive, but vulgar and parvenu; whereas Syria, in her abomination of desolation, is the old land, and she teems with relics of departed glory. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
In Motion's book there is a remarkable photograph of Eva Larkin circa 1970, sitting relaxedly in an armchair over the back of which her son leans, wearing a look of mingled animosity, defensiveness, and desolation; on the reverse of the picture Larkin had written: "Happy As the Day is Long. Homage to Philip Larkin
Desolation has become global and the photographer's world is decidedly anchored in formalism.
It was a depiction of legends passed down, legends of despair and desolation.
Despite the sunny sounds of some of the music, the lyrics are mostly dark, addressing suicide, terrorism, depression, and desolation.
Everyman is at-last forsaken by Beauty, and Power and Wealth, and all the other allegorical figures, and is left alone to face Desolation and the Judgment of Heaven, with only Good Deeds to befriend him. The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress
From the embrace of all desolations faith leaps forth. Les Miserables
Mountains of rubbish are piled up to form a landscape that is almost lunar in its desolation.
It is a scene of utter desolation caused by the great famine of 1770.
We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin.
A cracked, harsh voice suddenly speaks out of the darkness, conveying all the desolation of Mars.
What grim lioness yeaned thee, aneath what rock's desolation? Poems and Fragments
It is here again prophesied of, because the desolations of many of the neighbouring countries, which were foretold in the foregoing chapters, were to be brought to pass by the Assyrian army. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Like a little plumped up raisin, he exudes vanity, smugness and frailty and desolation in equal measure.
Both novels focus on the desolation of a family trapped in the quagmire of poverty, victimization, and oppression in the Harlem ghetto.
The trek from Pyongyang, across some 10,000 kilometers of Siberian desolation, took 10 days.
We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin.
A visitor in 1906 wrote of the desolation of the scene and the damage done to this beautiful area by the miners, but now the regrowth of kamahi has covered most of the relics of the mining.
The result is rather a one-sided return to barbarism or to the feroe natura -- a rehabilitation and accentuation of those ferine traits which make for damage and desolation, without a corresponding development of the traits which would serve the individual's self-preservation and fullness of life in a ferine environment. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
The moonlight caught her eyes; eyes that were trying, like the lips, to smile, but that were really looking away into the future, which she saw stripped of companionship and love, and gray with the ashiness of wretched desolation. The Call of the Cumberlands
Over on the other side, we stopped at Lille to enjoy another scene of concrete desolation. Times, Sunday Times
Days of desolation beget resolves, times of terror produce engagements, which the heart (the storm past) will wilily and wickedly seek to evade. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
Many people around the world experience, at some time or the other in their lifetimes, a feeling of wretchedness, desolation, hysteria and ingratitude within themselves.
She died on September 30, 1897 at the age of 24 after eighteen months of great physical suffering and desolation of spirit.
It descends and when the doors open he is astonished to be greeted by a scene of desolation, with dejected people dressed in rags and a smell of sulphur in the air.
Where the Lutetian Palace of Julian saluted their darling as Augustus, the sledge-hammer and the stucco of the Haussmann fiat bear desolation in their wake. Under Two Flags
It was a picture of utter desolation. Christianity Today
It brought images of desolation and destruction that most people had never seen directly into their living rooms for the first time.
Then did each page as I turned it over bring some fresh recollection of one's unspeakable sense of newness and desolation; the haunting fear of doing something ludicrous; the morbid dread of chaff and of being "greened," which even in my time had, happily, supplanted the old terrors of being tossed in a blanket or roasted at a fire. Collections and Recollections
Woods and thickets ran up the sides of the mountains, and disappeared among the sinuosities formed by the winding ravines which separated them from each other; but far above these specimens of a tolerable natural soil arose the swart and bare mountains themselves, in the dark grey desolation proper to the season. The Fair Maid of Perth
The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle.
May the ghosts of the men who mar the earth, turning her sweet rivers into channels of filth, and her living air into irrespirable vapours and pestilences, haunt the desolations they have made, until they loathe the work of their hands, and turn from themselves with a divine repudiation. Malcolm
What once had been a city was a desert now, a vast field of emptiness and desolation.
Visions of a gray uniform came blending in dissolving views with the visions of monarchs in their robes of state and soldiers in heavy armour; it meant much, that gray uniform; and a sense of loss and want and desolation by degrees crept over me, which had nothing to do with the ruin of kingdoms. Daisy in the Field
Fair warning was indeed given them, by Isaiah and other prophets of the Lord, of this desolation; but they slighted that notice, and would give no credit to it, and therefore justly is it so ordered that they should have no other notice of it, but that partly through their own security, and partly through the swiftness and subtlety of the enemy, when it came it should be a perfect surprise to them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The church was being given a taste of how the world works - its lopsidedness, its patchy rhythm of muchness and emptiness, of affluence and desolation.
To say it was depressing is an understatement: even the most liberal-minded of viewers would have balked at the moral desolation of the scene. Times, Sunday Times
Despite her desolation, Nora Simpson was not the sort of woman to be beaten by a twist of fate.
Crows and ravens flock for food to the camps broken up for the springtide and autumnal marches, and thus become emblems of desertion and desolation. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It is true, that in the prospect of the desolations which were foretold by the Saviour and were about to be poured out upon Jerusalem, 'for the present distress,' 'the short time' Paul advised, not commanded, a temporary deviation from the order of naturelike an eclipse of the sun or moonfor a 'short time' which no one could wish to be prolonged. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
He leads us again through desolation and citified alienation, but there's love in the air this time round, and it propels us through the darker moments.
Edward determined on desolation, when he placed English governors throughout our towns; and the rapacious Heselrigge, his representative in Lanark, not backward to execute the despot's will, has just issued an order, for the houses of all the absent chiefs to be searched for records and secret correspondences. The Scottish Chiefs
They may be fierce and terrible, they may bring wretchedness and ruin, they may 'demoralize' armies and people, they may be dreadful evils, and leave long trails of desolation, but they are none the less wars for victories in which men will return thanks while the world shall stand. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
She lingered, finally, over the _Metacom_, running her easting down far to the southward with square yards under a close-reefed maintop sail, double-reefed foresail and forestaysail, dead before a gale and gigantic long seas hurling the ship on in the bleak watery desolation. Java Head
“Good Heaven! how unfortunate!” said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water. Saint Ronan's Well
But these catacombs, emptiness, desolation and that old brown lilacky, crumbly Roman earth, in which no plough need move nor spade, -- that _terriccio_, that pot-mould of the past. The Spirit of Rome
I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O! there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses. Act V. Scene IV. Cymbeline
The fact that there is fear, grief and desolation in the world is something he understands, but even this only in so far as these are vague, general feelings, just grazing the surface.
Vainly seeks the eye a flow'ret 'mid the desolation drear, The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon
The strips of green herbage and forest-land, which have here and there escaped the burning lavas, serve, by contrast, to heighten the desolation of the scene.
Crystal was suddenly filled with misery and desolation.
Pillages, desolations, and murders, were the inevitable consequence of these disorders; and that is so true, that in a road of six hundred leagues, during which the Greeks always marched irregularly, being neither escorted nor pursued by any great body of Persian troops, they lost four thousand men, either killed by peasants or by sickness. A Philosophical Dictionary
The colours of unreachable nebulas mingled with the darkness and desolation of space.
When there is nothing left but ruins and desolation, a tragic vision of a world destructed by an undetermined abstract force defines what would eventually become a recurring theme in Resnais's work: the wrath of God.
There was no reproach in his shuddering sobs; only sorrow, only the desolation and eternal heart-ache of that which loves mightily, unrequitedly, and realizes that all it desires can never, never be. The Eternal Maiden
Lord '; the' desolations 'that have been made on the' earth '' He has made. ' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
A visitor in 1906 wrote of the desolation of the scene and the damage done to this beautiful area by the miners, but now the regrowth of kamahi has covered most of the relics of the mining.
The poet voices myriad experiences - dreams and desires, pains and penance, despair and desolation - which are rooted in our times.
One woman epitomizes grief as utter desolation: the wide stretch of her open, sobbing mouth tells us she will never again know comfort.
A big pond flanks the left-hand side of the fairway and an old boat, timbers rotting in the sun, gives the hole the ambience of desolation I mentioned earlier.
All around them desolation and destruction saturated the crumbled and falling buildings on each side of the street.
Little is known of his life, but it was clearly troubled, and a sense of melancholy and desolation is characteristic of all his work.
In choked desolation, she watched him walk quietly to the door and let himself out.
To northern commentators this ‘city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses, of rotting wharves, of deserted warehouses, of weed-wild gardens, of miles of grass-grown streets, of acres of pitiful and voiceful barrenness’ was a fitting end for the city where ‘Rebellion reared its head five years ago.’
To be letting on he was dead, and coming back to his life, and following after me like an old weazel tracing a rat, and coming in here laying desolation between my own self and the fine women of Ireland, and he a kind of carcase that you'd fling upon the sea ... The Playboy of the Western World; a Comedy in Three Acts
The books always had a point, even in their pain and desolation and ennui, he found comfort in their purpose.
However, the island's desolation was offset by whalers who came aboard from the ships Emma Jane and Roswell King.
With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation. The Last Man
Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
And, in one word, if the power of the protestant religion had not been preserved in the body of the people, it had, by some, been long ago given up to the papal interest, and this working effectually among us at a time when we were in dread (all that were wise and considerative) that there would from thence arise the desolation and destruction of this church. The Sermons of John Owen
For these soldiers the unexpected journey from rural idyll to battlefield desolation was anything but fantasy. Times, Sunday Times
Only her eyes betrayed her sorrow and desolation.
Pansy's, far away in the garden, -- in a partly boggish, partly hoggish manner, drenched and desolate; and with something of demoniac temper got into its calyx, so that it quarrels with, and bites the corolla; -- something of gluttonous and greasy habit got into its leaves; a discomfortable sensuality, even in its desolation. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
During the revolution, when the peasants of all the adjoining estates violently dispossessed their landlords of their property; when every adjoining chateau exhibited a scene of desolation and ruin; the peasants of this estate were remarkable for their moderate and steady conduct; so far from themselves pillaging their seigneur, they formed a league for his defence "-- Ils l'ont soutenùs," as they themselves expressed it -- _and he continued throughout, and is now in the quiet possession of his great estate_. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
Hal Lindsey, John Walvoord and many other premillenarian futurists affirm that the prophecies of the Antichrist and the Abomination of Desolation are futuristic, based upon the many citings found in Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
There was the same sadness in his eyes, however, and the same desolation.
Although this song may represent Hitchcock's most sanctimonious ego, he betters himself later on with a delicate version of ‘Not Dark Yet’ and a cheeky epic narrative on ‘Desolation Row.’
It filled me with an intense sadness, a peculiar desolation that was only partially pacified when the last note died away and Rob embraced me, kissing my forehead.
Another gate delivered them into the second court, grass-grown, and more wild than the first, where, as she surveyed through the twilight its desolation — its lofty walls, overtopt with briony, moss and nightshade, and the embattled towers that rose above, — long-suffering and murder came to her thoughts. The Mysteries of Udolpho
And the utter desolation at the end was unforgettable. Times, Sunday Times
When they only denied the fruit, he did not distrain upon them for rent, nor disseize them and dispossess them for non-payment; but when they killed his servants, and his Son, he determined to destroy them; and this was fulfilled when Jerusalem was laid waste, and the Jewish nation extirpated and made a desolation. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Certainly, in almost every Michael Chabon fiction, there is this vanishing — subtractions, desolations, and abandonments; sinister design and rotten luck. Meshuga Alaska
And behold what I would have applied to the tongue of the evil-speaker, had I undertaken to give you a just and natural idea of all the enormity of this vice: I would have said that the tongue of the slanderer is a devouring fire which tarnishes whatever it touches; which exercises its fury on the good grain, equally as on the chaff; on the profane, as on the sacred; which, wherever it passes, leaves only desolation and ruin; digs even into the bowels of the earth, and fixes itself on things the most hidden; turns into vile ashes what only a moment before had appeared to us so precious and brilliant; acts with more violence and danger than ever in the time when it was apparently smothered up and almost extinct; which blackens what it can not consume, and sometimes sparkles and delights before it destroys. Of a Malignant Tongue
It will find those who call to it, bringing desolation and misery.
The road, challenged enough in the desolation of the desert tries to stick to the longitudinal valleys that run beneath the cordillera. Kook
The desolation of the place made me cringe a little.
For these soldiers the unexpected journey from rural idyll to battlefield desolation was anything but fantasy. Times, Sunday Times
He could hardly believe his eyes at the trail of destruction and burning and the general desolation of the scene.
The desolation of Egypt hereby is foretold, and the waste that should be made of that rich country. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
I passed through a scene impressive in its aspect of desolation, and almost a tribute to the destructive power of the chestnut blight.
Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.
The sign of the telos is the setting up of "the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. Commentary on Revelation
Each month was a roller coaster of emotions: hope and then, when my menses inevitably began, pain, despair and desolation.
In fact, there's much a sense of desolation and loneliness permeating the film.
We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin.
My desolation was utter and lasted, oh, half a day. Times, Sunday Times
Here, in the words of the Scripture, is desolation of abomination, or at any rate its beginnings.
Sand-engirded, alone, then first she knew desolation. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
Getting away completely by myself, I got the most amazing sense of utter desolation stretching away all around me. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The very name Grimethorpe conjures up an picture of dirt, decay and desolation.
After a week of charting the River Jordan, the men glided onto the Dead Sea, to Lynch a scene of "unmixed desolation" and "calcined barenness," its stagnant water "the color of diluted absinthe. Old Salt, Dead Sea
Or perhaps they're the impoverished hill farmers that live hard, breadline lives in isolated, public service-free zones of desolation.
In a condition of utter desolation and heartbreak Butterfly bids farewell to her son and takes her life in a dramatically charged climax.
The hound fared on up the dale to where the water was bridged by a great fallen stone, and so over it and up a steep bent on the further side, on to a marvellously rough mountain-neck, whiles mere black sand cumbered with scattered rocks and stones, whiles beset with mires grown over with the cottony mire-grass; here and there a little scanty grass growing; otherwhere nought but dwarf willow ever dying ever growing, mingled with moss or red-blossomed sengreen; and all blending together into mere desolation. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
And in the utter desolation of the desert, Akhenaten declares his unfettered love.
Laurens particularly hated festive celebrations and believed that the Olympic Games “and other fooleries brought on the desolation of Greece.” A Renegade History of the United States
A solitary singer tramps through a winter landscape, seeing in the frozen streams and bare trees a reflection of his own loneliness and desolation.
Even at student age I wasn't old enough to appreciate the melancholic desolation which seeps through the cracks of the comedy.
Away from the army lines and great centers of cities, the suffering was dreadful; impressments stripped the impoverished people; conscription turned smiling fields into desert wastes; fire and sword ravaged many districts; and the few who could raise the great bundle of paper necessary to buy a meal, scarce knew where to turn in the general desolation, to procure it even then. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
The Lancashire desolation and remoteness was a refuge for recusants - awkward people who were stubborn and resilient, and whose best expression was not in word but in action and a capacity to come back for more persecution.
Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.
Come and see the workth of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth. The Terror
Delhi is a city of magnificence and desolation, grandeur and history, all seeped in red and purple.
I woke from deathlike sleep to find desolation all around me, but no Chaos. The Night Of the Solstice
They did his bidding and he alighted with his company of handmaids and Mamelukes; and, seeing all the folk of the city in straits and desolation and sore distress, said to the Princess, ‘O love of my heart and coolth of mine eyes, look in what a piteous plight is my sire!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The broken battlements, enwreathed with ivy, proclaimed the fallen grandeur of the place, while the shattered vacant window-frames exhibited its desolation, and the high grass that overgrew the threshold seemed to say how long it was since mortal foot had entered. A Sicilian Romance
What these Twenty Poems of Love and One Ode of Desperation depict is the meeting between two people's desolation in the shadow of destruction, and in the next major work, Residence on Earth, he is still "alone among shifting matter". Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 - Presentation Speech
In the distance the wooded Valley of Desolation takes the eye up to Barden Moor.
When a spell was laid on her to keep her from him, she fell into a fit of desolation, secluding herself and seeing no one.
We all need more desolation and despair in our lives, so long as it's beautifully and darkly written. Times, Sunday Times
There was less dust drift on an elevated roadbed, and it gave travelers a good view of desolation. THE DISPOSSESSED
History, watch over the land: it is a sepulchre; Death is within and around it; Decay writes defeature upon every stone; but the Past sits by the tomb as a mourning angel; a soul breathes through the desolation; a voice calls amidst the silence. Godolphin, Volume 4.
It is a scene of abject desolation that illustrated how glib the assumption was that the occupational hazards of swings in fortune ends up desensitising players. Football's inside-story tellers change perceptions and expose the soul | Rob Bagchi
Poetry, Fable, History, watch over the land: it is a sepulchre; Death is within and around it; Decay writes defeature upon every stone; but the Past sits by the tomb as a mourning angel; a soul breathes through the desolation; a voice calls amidst the silence. Godolphin, Complete
Mass in 1348, amid the desolation of the city, found the seven beloved ladies of the _Decamerone_ talking of death; here Martin V, and Eugenius Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
It was the turn of the moderate voices for a while, and not urging brotherly or cousinly forgiveness and love, but laying down bluntly the brutal facts; for if this stalemate, wrangling and waste continued, said Robert Bossu with cold, clear emphasis, there would eventually be nothing worth annexing or retaining, only a desolation where the victor, if the survivor so considered himself, might sit down in the ashes and moulder. A River So Long
They would have shuddered at the dust-windrowed street, the litter of refuse, the dismal lonesomeness, the forlornness, the utter isolation, the desolation. 'Firebrand' Trevison
_Carnifici_, which will protend A murdring desolation to that will, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The desolating sacrilege, the "abomination of desolations," an unambiguous reference to Antiochus' rededication of the temple to Zeus Olympus Ba'al Shomem and sacrifice of a pig on the altar. Intelligently-Designed Narratives: Mythicism as History-Stopper
There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely – shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive. Sketches by Boz
To retrieve and hold on to it at all other times - that would be something of worth to salvage from these scenes of desolation.
The strips of green herbage and forest-land, which have here and there escaped the burning lavas, serve, by contrast, to heighten the desolation of the scene.
Out of the gloom emerge the later paintings, charnel house visions of desolation.
One is Isa.x. 22, 23, which speaks of the saving of a remnant, that is, but a remnant, which, though in the prophecy it seems to refer to the preservation of a remnant from the destruction and desolation that were coming upon them by Sennacherib and his army, yet is to be understood as looking further, and sufficiently proves that it is no strange thing for God to abandon to ruin a great many of the seed of Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
At that terrible injunction, “Go and conquer,” America was desolated and its inhabitants exterminated; Africa and Europe were exhausted in vain to repeople it; the poison of money and of pleasure having enervated the species, the world became nearly a desert and appeared likely every day to advance nearer to desolation by the continual wars which were kindled on our continent, from the ambition of extending its power to foreign lands. A Philosophical Dictionary
To be letting on he was dead, and coming back to his life, and following after me like an old weazel tracing a rat, and coming in here laying desolation between my own self and the fine women of Ireland, and he a kind of carcase that youd fling upon the sea Act Two
I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses! Cymbeline
Everywhere there was desolation - trees black and bare-limbed and the ground covered with gritty black ash.
Note, The shining of God's face upon the desolations of the sanctuary is all in all towards the repair of it; and upon that foundation it must be rebuilt. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Once outside of a poor French village near the war zone, that had been bombed from the German lines, bombed from the German airships and ravaged by fire and sword, some American soldiers, looking at the desolation and the ruin of the place, so grotesque in its gaping death, so hopeless in its pitiful finality, painted on a large white board, and nailed on a sign post just at the edge of the town this slogan: The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
The assistance received made the difference between survival and desperation, and the accompanying sentiments provided emotional support at a time of desolation.
Divisions commonly end in desolations; if we clash, we break; if we divide one from another, we become an easy prey to a common enemy; much more if we bite and devour one another, shall we be consumed one of another, Gal.v. 15. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
The golden galleon of romance set all sail for Eldorado; Cromwell was published, with its polemical preface: and the simultaneous apparition of Hernani and the too famous pourpoint of Théophile Gautier showed the opponents of the new spirit, as a contemporary remarked, that the theatre had become the veritable abomination of desolation. Introduction
73 While the Persians beheld from the walls of Ctesiphon the desolation of the adjacent country, Julian cast many an anxious look towards the North, in full expectation, that as he himself had victoriously penetrated to the capital of Sapor, the march and junction of his lieutenants, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
With all its macabre desolation it is one of the most haunting images of our era. Times, Sunday Times
The mood of desolation makes this one of the most haunting images of our postwar era. Times, Sunday Times
The young wife's gaunt desolation is one of the most haunting aspects of the novel.
A few hours later, as smoke continued to pour from the smoldering ruins, survivors surveyed a scene of stunning desolation.
As someone who grew up watching contests that were the domain of giants such as Rush and Barnes, Sharp and Steven, he vividly recalls euphoric highs after victories but, equally, will never forget the desolation of defeat. IcLiverpool
The incidents that had occurred during the past few days only served to increase her sense of desolation and loneliness.
The sal forests of Garhwal and Kumaun, for example, were ‘felled in even to desolation.’
She causes, some say, desolation, evil, and decay, yet she also creates palaces of art and culture, gardens of rank luxuriance.
With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation. The Last Man
A scene of desolation greeted him in the camp that will now become his home. Times, Sunday Times
The desolating sacrilege, the "abomination of desolations," an unambiguous reference to Antiochus' rededication of the temple to Zeus Olympus Ba'al Shomem and sacrifice of a pig on the altar. Intelligently-Designed Narratives: Mythicism as History-Stopper
The broken battlements, enwreathed with ivy, proclaimed the fallen grandeur of the place, while the shattered vacant window-frames exhibited its desolation, and the high grass that overgrew the threshold seemed to say how long it was since mortal foot had entered. A Sicilian Romance
Nicola Gunn and the Desolation Angels Company of Melbourne, Australia came the furthest distance to attend the Calgary fringe, and audiences were glad they did.
Full often did I groan: "Justly has this sorrow come upon me because I deserted the Paraclete, which is to say the Consoler, and thrust myself into sure desolation; seeking to shun threats I fled to certain peril. Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes
Good Heaven! how unfortunate!" said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water. St. Ronan's Well
But that optimism was short-lived as hope turned to dread to utter desolation as her worst fears were confirmed. Times, Sunday Times
Adrian's account of "the desolation of the human spirit" was not particularly "televisual". Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
There is also a fumarole known as Valley of Desolation (or Grand Soufriere), with fumaroles, hot springs, mud pots, sulfur vents and the Boiling Lake, which is the world's second largest of its kind. Morne Trois Pitons, Dominica
His sensibility transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
If we ask what the question is that the passage overall poses, or what the change is that needs to be taking place over the time of the passage's narration, it is about the move from desolation in the face of the cross (Jesus 'cross and the implicit demand for the disciple to carry the cross also) to confidence that the process is the work of love coming from and leading to the Father. 'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture
The drones and bleeps give way to the empty spaces of ‘Native Einstein’, whose bells and cymbals and scraping violins seem to speak of desolation and loss.
For these soldiers the unexpected journey from rural idyll to battlefield desolation was anything but fantasy. Times, Sunday Times
There, a lesser, coniform elevation of the continuous chain, is mantled in living green; while perhaps by its side, another pains the eye with the well defined lineaments of desolation. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
It was a land of horror, where there was nothing but the abomination of desolation -- a land overstrewn with blasted fragments of fractured lava-blocks, intermixed with sand, from which there arose black precipices and giant mountains that poured forth rivers of fire and showers of ashes and sheets of flame. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Thus the place of creation becomes the place of desolation and eventual destruction.
The llano was a place of extreme desolation, a vast, trackless, and featureless ocean of grass where white men became lost and disoriented and died of thirst; a place where the imperial Spanish had once marched confidently forth to hunt Comanches, only to find that they themselves were the hunted, the ones to be slaughtered. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
It is all about desolation, loss of hope and an overwhelming grief where there seems to be no hope, ever again, at the end of the tunnel.
Woman is the capsheaf of the abomination of desolation -- full of all deviltry. Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life;" Also, a Memorial Chapter,
a project of rebuilding the Jewish temple -- which, if he could have compassed, it would have sufficiently answered his wicked design; Christ and the prophet Daniel having in express terms foretold not only its destruction, which was effected by the Romans under Titus, but its final ruin and desolation. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Ignatius would eventually become one of history's great spiritual masters, and he asked his followers to spend a few moments each night recalling the moments in which they felt most alive and worthwhile that day -- consolations -- and those in which they felt the opposite, dead inside and worthless -- desolations. Paul Wilkes: Art Of Confession: Jesuit And Buddhist Approaches To Confession
The food of a nation had perished, and a desolation unexampled in modern times came down upon the land.
The bus lurches along a bumpy road through a landscape of uncultivated desolation.
They are grief stricken by the desolation of the land around them.
The desolation of seeing his supposedly infallible moral sword blunted and useless, the first time he'd ever really got to unsheathe it. Country of the Blind
All I did that blessed, livelong day was to sweat and swelter in the sun, mortify my lean flesh upon the rock, gaze out of the desolation, resurrect old memories, dream dreams, and mutter my convictions aloud. Chapter 12

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