Sentence examples for create desolation from inspiring English sources

"They create desolation and call it peace," is a slogan that has often summed up the consequences of military conquest.

In discussing the Zionist approach to Palestine, he echoes Tacitus on the Roman conquest of Britain: "They created a desolation and called it peace".

The effect, he adds, is that the tonal gusts create a sense of desolation and fear.

They are tender as well toward the bleached blue California sky, the scrubby hills and high tension lines, the abandoned houses and secret creek-sides, housing tracts built to create an illusion of affluence, and the ironic desolation of an abandoned miniature golf course.

Like Mr. Antonioni, who once dyed grass in one of his films to underscore "the sense of desolation, of death," Mr. Jayasundara uses color both to create an enveloping mood and to underscore the medium's plasticity.

The immersive, shifting images create an amorphous lyricism that could be said to romanticize destruction and desolation.

Nevertheless, Susser manages to create a believable, awkward, and vulnerable romance in the middle of the desolation with two convincing central teen performances by Jimbo and Sarah, who is played by Mia Wasikowska of Alice In Wonderland and The Kids Are Alright. .

This is a world whose desolation is created and reinforced by the vileness of human behaviour.

True, Germany received billions of dollars of external aid to rebuild after the desolation it created for itself in 1945.

She decided to create a series around the town and use the shots to explore a sense of space and desolation.

"Just being in that landscape creates this feeling of loneliness and desolation," Papamichael tells me.