Sentence examples for a desolation of from inspiring English sources

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

"I do mourn and resent what seems to me to be a desolation of learning," he says.

In "A Desolation of Learning", a book published on May 22nd, Mr Woodhead surveys state schools in England and sees a wasteland.

Mont Ventoux, on the schedule Thursday, is a 21-kilometer (13-mile) climb past the tree line into a desolation of strewn rock.

For as always in his novels, modern life is described – with wilful comic terror – as a dead landscape of circumscription and ennui: a desolation of microwave meals, bored sex and smoking bans.

A savage deadly heaviness, a desolation of the spirits, an evil gnawing at the very roots of our life: if we're unlucky enough to feel that, we will know from experience that the opposite of that abominable condition is not happiness, but energy.

This is a desolation born of the fact that we remain, and have always been, a nation in which only some parents, specifically the parents of America's black and brown children, must continually suffer loss with no justice.

I listened and then it came, the howl, a sound full of the desolation of a lonely animal on a snowy mountain.

The scene becomes a panorama of desolation, of rocks and scrubby trees, lava fields and herds of goats.

In these earlier paintings life looks relentlessly bleak, be it the cinematic desolation of a wrecked car on a blasted heath, a grey stone staircase spiralling to nowhere, or the hopeless humdrum walls of a prefab office.

"Where is everybody?" This empty road in India had the familiar desolation of a road in an absurd dream from which you woke up sweating.