Sentence examples for desolate like from inspiring English sources

The latter is initially seen as a pratfall prankster, but is eventually glimpsed on the no-man's land of a beach, alone and desolate, like a tragic clown only just beginning to realise that the joke is on him.

"A decade ago, the town was rundown and desolate, like the dying-out of an era," said Kathy Danielson, a 14-year resident who in July opened the Lyric Coffee Shop in a former vaudeville theater.

Chaobei New City is the reincarnation of six flattened villages: a desolate, prison-like, rubbish-strewn ghetto.

Her earthly prison, part of a desolate Teton-like range conceived with brilliance by Tom Pye (set) and Jean Kalman (lighting), has heroic dimensions.

A desolate, desert-like landscape will serve as the backdrop for the exchanging of the vows.

Prominent new Relovilles will pop up in sleepy old towns like Castle Rock, Col., and Gaithersburg, Md., and others in desolate prairies like Frisco and Flower Mound, outside Dallas.

The West Bank is small, but in desolate spaces like this one it feels huge, mythic.

It was a last-minute holiday around November time - pre-panto - but it felt a bit desolate and like it was trying too hard.

The letter has a desolate feel, like a note from Mr Godot's office informing the tramps not to bother waiting any longer.

The tram tour travels through the starkest portions of the desolate landscape, like the site of a springhouse, built in 1935, that was overtaken by sand by 1962 and is now invisible under eight feet of sand.

Yet as biting as Mr. Newman can be in his comic and disgusted modes, his most durable songs are very nearly sympathetic to their narrators: desolate cityscapes like "Baltimore" and "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" and boobytrapped love songs like "Real Emotional Girl" and "Marie".