Sentence examples for a desolation from inspiring English sources

Take, for example, the magazine dated June 16 , 1945 in which we see a "Desolation Note" that does not look quite desolate enough to us: "The Minister of Reconstruction in the present Italian government is Signor Ruin".

There's a desolation.

Ellis Island was a desolation.

There's a desolation to this symphony, a chilly, lonely introspection, that I've never felt so keenly.

He was fifty-seven, and his sudden death came as a desolation.

22 May 2009 Due to publish A Desolation of Learning, a critique on the current education system.

There is perhaps no better way to depict post-catastrophic Chernobyl's drop-in-a-bucket desolation than through the constrained power of the cinemagraph.

It was more important to find a way into a raw desolation that stands apart from everyday fripperies of sport and controversy, celebrities and prizes.

Such are the images of daily life for American troops fighting in Afghanistan: A clinically organized desolation, a war without the fight, a set of still lifes amid the violence, each day of their deployment.

There is a marathon 'Desolation Row' which has an enchanting tune and mysterious, possibly half-baked words".

Buzz Aldrin, for instance, described the lunar landscape as a vision of "magnificent desolation," a grand phrase for a bleak truth.