The phrase "desolation about" is not grammatically correct or commonly used in written English.
It is unclear what the intended meaning is, and it is not a complete sentence. It is possible that the intended word was "desolate" or "desolation," but in either case, it is not used in this way. Instead, a more correct and commonly used phrase might be "feelings of desolation" or "a sense of desolation." Example: After years of war, the once-thriving city was left in a state of desolation, with abandoned buildings and a pervasive feeling of emptiness about.
She had severe gastrointestinal issues, and discussed her desolation about it with Dr. Baker daily.
By Wednesday it was apparent that the killing threatened to splinter the already fragile alliances between Afghanistan's ethnic groups, leaving a sense of desolation about the country's future.
He expressed feelings of desolation about United's mere 13 points from 10 games – "I feel very lousy for the fans" – and suggested that it could be three years before he has turned things around at Old Trafford.
There is an air of slight desolation about this event following the decision of Caster Semenya not to double up with the 800m, and the gold medal looks Felix's for the taking.
These Marines have joined the epidemic of veterans in this country who are taking their own lives, who cannot tolerate another day with their memories and with the spiritual and moral desolation brought about by their experience in war.
Vice: How did Desolation Wilderness come about?
When I moved to Seattle last year, I started hearing about Desolation Peak.
Coppola finds a balance of tenderness and despair — the girls seem too drugged by the place, with its First World War desolation, to care about being manhandled — that he has never repeated elsewhere.
(Sisario) T K WEBB AND VISIONS (Saturday) A Brooklynite by way of rural Missouri, the singer and guitarist T K Webb plays ragged, stark Delta blues about desolation and dying young, surrounding his creaky tenor with a halo of eerie reverb.
For more than a year now, the desolation Lyndon Johnson felt about his position had shown in his posture — in the slump of his shoulders — and in his gait, the slow steps that had replaced the old long Texas stride with which he had walked the corridors of Capitol Hill, and in his face, on which all the lines ran downward, his jowls sagging, so that reporters mocked in print his "hangdog" look.
For this reason, the response that Samuel, a secular Jew who questions spurts of born-again Judaism in his friends and family, seems to provoke is, "Enough already!" The truth about "Desolation," which has been translated by Carol Brown Janeway with a nice feel for Reza's idiomatic prose, is that it would be more effective as a recorded book.
