In cities, in suburbs and on desolate country roads.
He was one of the very first ranchers in what is still very desolate country".
The Sierra Morena forms the main watershed between the Guadiana and Guadalquivir rivers and is mostly wild, desolate country thickly covered with dense evergreen bushes and shrubs.
There were moments that recalled Metallica or Megadeth at their most roaring, and also flecks of desolate country and trancelike Middle Eastern music.
The road to Lightning Flat went through desolate country past a dozen abandoned ranches distributed over the plain at eight- and ten-mile intervals, houses sitting blank-eyed in the weeds, corral fences down.
"The Long Goodbye" is O'Rourke's anguished, beautifully written chronicle of that passage, from the innocence of a relatively privileged life to the wider and more desolate country that great loss imposes.
Before long the film forsakes linear narration altogether and becomes a matrushka doll of alternating realities, dreams within dreams, flashbacks inside of tangents, periodically intercut with shots of the six principals strolling along a desolate country road on their way either to a grand picnic or a Technicolor remake of "The Seventh Seal".
It's odd, then, that given all this hurtling life force, this hard-won happiness, my strongest impression of O'Faolain is that she is running backward -- toward the defeated mother of her childhood and toward the Ireland of the past, a desolate country of broken men and broken women.
With Stephen's misgivings "drugged", she and Mary are drawn further into the "desolate country" of Paris gay life.
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..
