Sentence examples for a state of desolation from inspiring English sources

In a state of desolation, a series of chance encounters over the winter of 1972 led him to a squat on Charrington Street, not far from St. Pancras station.

We're marching toward a state of unremitting desolation: the world will drop away, with no compensating replacement.

Portraying the role in what feels like a habitual state of desolation is no small feat, but Shaw is flawless.

The patients must reach a state of openness where they are willing to endure the pain of exposing their feelings of desolation and despair.

If so many organisations are working in Haiti, how can it remain in the state of extreme desolation which has been revealed?

In the twentieth century, the epoch of "The Waste Land," an aesthetic of desolation took hold.

It hinged on a lot of desolation".

A visitor passes hulking edifices, from coke ovens to huge steel-rolling mills, and finds a whiff of desolation, too.

Interestingly, she has turned what might have been a work of desolation into something more hopeful.

What's left behind is a sense of desolation and distrust.

They were haggard and sleepless, the husband unshaven, the wife's face a mask of desolation and fury.