Sentence examples for desolation caused from inspiring English sources

The poverty, bloodshed, and desolation caused by his campaigns gave rise to many legends, which in turn inspired such works as Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great.

"Asking about their 'dominance'?" The prickly defiance remained throughout yet, by the time Coleman departed the stage, the true sense of desolation caused by this defeat had been properly exposed.

In its current dilapidated state, it only serves as a reminder of the desolation caused by Superga, and many attempts have been made to revive it in the past.

But a trip to Moscow intended as a reward for promising young Marxist intellectuals proved instead to be a turning point, exposing for him what he described as "the enormity of material and spiritual desolation caused by the Stalinist system".

With the marching armies came the plague and its effects, which were particularly devastating, since it hit a population already weakened by famines and desolation caused by the war.

And from this awareness we might begin to feel the grief, the soul's sadness, both for the outer ecocide and for the less noticed but just as tragic spiritual desolation caused by our forgetting.

The South Bronx 1977 resembles Aleppo 2016, though its desolation is caused by cluster bombs of political neglect, corruption, crime and poverty.

They release him, and he then spends the five years of the novel's span trying to pick his way through the psychic desolation his experience has caused.

And absolutely, in retrospect I do now see these ugly feelings as not just pure, but also caused by other things, I mean not just the waiter's rudeness or indifference but also for instance the desolation I was trying not to think about when alone in the house with Candy.

"As images of human desolation were beamed into our homes this week," wrote Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror tabloid, referring to the Japanese tsunami, "rich and famous people were hunched over laptops alerting us to the grotesque injuries caused to their reputations".

Defeat in this cup is never a cause for utter desolation.