It's an austere piece, set on a desolate, soil-strewn stage and shot through with violent imagery.
Without consulting with the community, the investors were planning to forcefully relocate the community into tiny brick homes on a desolate ridge without soil or water".
Note Mark Twain's description of the Israeli flora from his trip there in 1867: "A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds... a silent, mournful expanse... a desolation..
Even the desolate view of rusty soil, lifeless valleys and bare mountains is shrouded in a permanent orange haze.
Yes, it could be pretty in its own way, but the thin sandy soil was a desolate burnt brown.
Through the broad windows of the low, nondescript building in which we stood, we could see massive white radio antennas outside against the Martian-red soil of the desolate Chajnantor Plateau, their dishes thrust towards a pure blue sky.
On the northern shore, just an hour's drive from Charlottetown, you stare out at what looks like infinity from a series of low-lying, red-soil cliffs with a peculiar, desolate beauty.
Open land is the land that is unused, desolate, barren or ravaged.
They have camped on a desolate patch of New Mexico desert land called Cabinetlandia, owned by the art magazine Cabinet, wedged between an active rail line and screaming traffic on Interstate 10, where there is little more in the way of amenities than a mailbox and a filing-cabinet community "library" embedded in a concrete-and-soil wall.
With its high sloping, treeless hills, this desolate landscape resembled a desert -- one made of sodden soil instead of sand.
Ten minutes from the car-rental place, these began to give out, and I found myself in a desolate landscape in which there were no trees or bushes or really even soil.
