Sentence examples for cry of desolation from inspiring English sources

I Ain't Got No Home in This World Any More is a cry of desolation and despair.

Jesus' cry of desolation — "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" — though primly edited out or explained as an apropos quotation from the Psalms by later evangelists, pierces us even now from the pages of Mark, across all the centuries and Church comforts.

The story begins with Jesus' adult baptism, with no hint of a special circumstance at his birth, and there is actually some grumbling by Jesus about his family ("Only in his home town, among his relatives and in his own house, is a prophet without honor," he complains); it ends with a cry of desolation as he is executed — and then an enigmatic and empty tomb.

It's a masterwork of desolation, loneliness and rumination and if you truly listen to it and feel it, you will cry, because we've all felt this way at some point in our lives.

It hinged on a lot of desolation".

The sense of desolation is by design.

What is the abomination of desolation?

What is the price of desolation, and who pays.

But the courage was perhaps born of desolation.

Even so, gettest me out of this place of desolation".

In Baghdad, the scenes of desolation are more workaday.