There's deep desolation in the songs, and an aching, bluesy edge in her voice.
Behind Archie's brazen façade there is a deep desolation, and Olivier caught both aspects, switching, in the words of the biographer Anthony Holden, "from a gleefully tacky comic routine to moments of the most wrenching pathos".
Jerusalem, then, is a place of deep sorrow, utter desolation but also of hope and redemption.
BETTYE LAVETTE The magnificent soul singer Bettye LaVette's latest album, "Thankful N' Thoughtful," is an anatomy of bitter desolation, plunging deep to transform songs like Bob Dylan's "Everything Is Broken," the Black Keys' "I Ain't the One," Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and the title song, from Sly and the Family Stone.
"And he knows the rock of desolation and the deep of despair".
It's a rare page in "This Magnificent Desolation" that isn't supersaturated with description — "the deep, leaded bellies of clouds," "a strange, dusken light," "the snow falling heavily through the darkness," "dark pews smelling of linseed and wood soap and the stale sweat of old women".
And she effectively conveys the dramatic desolation of Arctic landscapes — "the craggy mountain faces, the deep blue fjords and the wild white cresting sea".
You have to find a way to structure your days so that the time still passes and you aren't sitting in the cell going stir crazy, because it will drive you off the deep end if you don't take measures to combat the desolation.
Haslett may have talent to burn and the grades to get him into Yale, but his prose exudes a desolation so choking that it can come only from somewhere deep inside.
Together with the scenes of cruelty he witnessed after he left the camp in Lunghau, China, where he had been interned with his parents during the second world war, the spectacle of desolation in the empty city of Shanghai must have left deep scars.
To his credit, though, he concluded the valedictory with a sentiment that echoes deep in the core of any hiker about to leave the wilderness: "Farewell, Desolation, thou hast seen me well.
