Sentence examples for desolation at from inspiring English sources

There is a fatalism and desolation at the heart of Prodigy's music.

"You are honest and good," Ivetta had finally declared from her desolation at the edge of the bed.

I still remember the anxiety following those positive tests, the desolation at the smears of blood weeks later.

That makes all the difference: the quickness with which Dido lets Belinda and company make Aeneas's case becomes more comprehensible, as does Dido's desolation at his departure.

In a slim volume of autobiography, Wind in my Sleeve (1992), she wrote of her "grief, anger, desolation" at the Beijing massacre but the book attracted little attention.

To imagine the readers of, say, Home and Food being treated to a Patricia Highsmith story is to experience a sense of desolation at what would be on offer in a comparable magazine these days.

The great pleasure of "Blind Date" comes from watching Ms. Foote's Dolores progress from determination to desperation and, finally, desolation, as her efforts at matchmaking go splat.

The scenes that greeted Lancashire's 2011 Championship success on a sunny September afternoon at Taunton were in stark contrast to the desolation seen at Lord's less than a year later as they contemplated relegation from Division One.

Whipping winds toward the late afternoon added to the air of desolation, pulling at mounting piles of garbage on sidewalks and sending some of the refuse rolling like tumbleweed down the empty streets.

In "Destruction" the state is swallowed by a tempest of smoke and fire; finally "Desolation" reigns at the site, now a pile of rubble, with only decayed traces of humanity.

To inheritance and personal history, Ellen Sherman added descriptions of his behavior: he seldom ate or slept, had lost human contact with others, and scarcely talked unless repeating his obsessions that "the whole country is gone irrevocably & ruin & desolation are at hand".