Sentence examples for desolate continent from inspiring English sources
I mean the sadness of those monumental members against the backdrop of this vast and desolate continent".
Antarctica, the desolate southernmost continent boasting the coldest climate on Earth, usually brings to mind visions of ice, snow and penguins.
It is an Australian irony – the name of one of the poorest and desolate areas of the continent, 200 miles north of Alice Springs where the local health centre for indigenous people has no running water, the lone toilet is rancid and snakes can get through the cracks in the corrugated-iron walls.
"Zama" is, among other things, a ringing statement of this hemispheric condition, in an unaccustomed key of defeat: "Here was I in the midst of a vast continent that was invisible to me though I felt it all around, a desolate paradise, far too immense for my legs," Zama tells us.
In Tracks, the ubiquitous Mia Wasikowska plays Robyn Davidson, a young woman who decides to do what no woman has done before her: She will walk halfway across Australia, beginning in desolate Alice Springs and traversing 1,700 miles of desert and wasteland, walking to the ocean on the island continent's west coast.
Her expression became desolate.
