Sentence examples for desolate surroundings from inspiring English sources

The pool looked uninviting from the outside – perfectly suited to its rather desolate surroundings.

What they do share of Stubbs's work is the streak of romanticism that the older artist sometimes pursued, as in several paintings of a lion attacking a horse or other animal in desolate surroundings.

Mr. Nauman's work took inspiration from the confined worlds created by the playwright Samuel Beckett, who in many works, from "Endgame" to "Not I" to "Worstward Ho," put anonymous characters in desolate surroundings.

And a tale of an Icelandic farmer who wanted to convert his barn into a dance hall, and expected to draw huge crowds — and perhaps elves — from his desolate surroundings, is supported with music that gently underscores the peculiarity of his plan.

Border officials said today that in years of patrolling this region they had rarely found immigrants in such desolate surroundings, many of them more than 30 miles from any road or structure at a time when the heat had shot up.

The desolate surroundings highlight Sudan's reputation as one of the least developed places on earth.

The 56-year-old Ms. Mitchell, born Roberta Joan Anderson, grew up in the Canadian province of Alberta, where she internalized the bleak surroundings of the desolate land.

Surroundings are desolate.

Zeiss Contax camera and Kodachrome film, Manbo, an amateur photographer, captured family portraits and scenes of everyday life at Heart Mountain, often set against the camp's desolate but stunning natural surroundings.

Their conversations are arch, but their surroundings are raw and desolate.

Most of the surroundings of SR 186 are desolate, compared to across the border in Mexico, which is populated and developed.