The brigade has now left the base camps sprouting along Highway 80 like some strange desert kudzu and moved closer to a desolate patch near the Iraqi border.
Do people really pay close to a million dollars for this desolate, faux existence?
I swallowed eight Valium and had my final shot in a desolate part of Brisbane close to the airport.
It's kind of amazing that you have the ocean and its underwater landscape so unknown and desolate and living so close to civilization.
Though Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller would help romanticize the waterfront, the fact remains that for close to two centuries, it meant rotting piers, desolate places where mobsters could take care of their enemies, social and economic shadiness.
When the helicopter landed here at a fort in this desolate landscape it was too close to a party tent, blowing off its roof and setting off panic among the soldiers who had spent four days preparing for the V.I.P. visit.
It's now in a desolate cove on the other side of the island — as close to Siberia as you can get on a slip of land about five miles long and a mile wide.
Close to the heart of London, the location was chosen in part for its desolate environment, but also because Jarre thought the architecture was ideally suited for his music.
It was in this desolate time, when neither her romances nor her attempted novels were working out, that she drew closest to Anglo-Catholicism, befriending clerics and converts, drawing too close to Donald MacKinnon for his wife's comfort, and reading the writers made fashionable by Christian existentialism — Unamuno, Heidegger, Berdyaev, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, Gabriel Marcel.
** It was in this desolate time, when neither her romances nor her attempted novels were working out, that she drew closest to Anglo-Catholicism, befriending clerics and converts, drawing too close to Donald MacKinnon for his wife's comfort, and reading the writers made fashionable by Christian existentialism — Unamuno, Heidegger, Berdyaev, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, Gabriel Marcel.
The gaps between the structures had been closed to form the familiar, desolate wall.
