He thought his room was "quite horrid, and it opens into a long suite of desolate rooms by a door which has no fastening".
The chamber was arranged to look like a desolate hospital room, with grimy walls and a small bed draped in dirty white sheets.
Sharon Lockhart's video of children at play in a grim courtyard in Łódz, Poland, and the desolate grey room of scant documentation that accompanies it at FACT, is dispiriting, and like the Whistler show has an air of self-regard, but in a pared-down and preachy modern manner.
Beyond Caring remains Graham's best-known series; laminated versions of these photographs were toured by the old Greater London Council to TUC conferences in order to lobby MPs for better conditions in these desolate waiting rooms and interview booths.
Jim sneers at Bob for his "graduate dorm" living, but Bob's own feelings are poised between relief at the anonymity of apartment dwelling and an existential dread when his squabbling downstairs neighbors move out and he catches sight of their desolate, empty rooms.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Sept. 17 — Eli Manning was surrounded in an otherwise desolate Giants locker room Monday.
Hunter trudged off the pitch looking utterly dejected, and there were more tears from several other players in a desolate England dressing room afterwards.
These survivor-witnesses, who were arrested on different charges, alternately walk through the building's desolate halls and rooms, movingly relate their stories on camera and stare silently into space, sometimes while their voice-overs continue.
There's a chatty cocktail scene at the lobby bar, but Rare, the fiery orange dining room, was desolate.
"Something to Remember Me By" offers the most hectic plot of these shorter short stories: an adolescent boy becomes, at first innocently, involved with a prostitute and ends up stripped and robbed and desolate in a strange room.
