The western region of Xinjiang is a vast area, much of it desolate, that makes up one-sixth of China's territory.
The wars that have desolated the former Yugoslavia over the past four years have been, to most Americans, baffling.
It was just after the war, he writes, returning from some job in India, to "desolate" London, that he knew "that if I did not get back to a garden I should die".
The video was recorded in desolate desert landscape that resembled the location in which Foley was murdered, although the latest video showed a flatter terrain.
His landscapes, too, are as elemental as his seascapes, great ash-grey furrowed fields merging into steel-grey skies; desolate places that seem biblical or post-apocalyptic in their utter desolation.
"We are pretty desolate about that".
Some say it is a desolate wasteland that is used only by, well, Google employees and a few Google faithful.
But hell would be a good name for the rock-strewn, dusty, desolate road that brought us there.
It's a pretty desolate moment that couldn't be further from the uplifting affirmation promised by the pre-publicity.
It is a fitting act of do-it-yourself urban design for Sherman Creek, a desolate neighborhood that has never had much of the city-sponsored kind.
There have been trips on to the ice – blizzards permitting – for people to contemplate the stillness, watch penguins and investigate this desolate landscape that appeared out of nowhere.
