Sentence examples for desolation to from inspiring English sources

There's a desolation to this symphony, a chilly, lonely introspection, that I've never felt so keenly.

It would be only natural for her desolation to obtain a new keenness in quieter times ahead.

Desmond Swayne swung from desolation to joy in just 24 hours after realising he was not for the chop after all.

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.

Having persuaded himself that his wife, Hermione, is pregnant by another man, he sets in motion a train of events that will bring suffering and desolation to those closest to him.

The Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes (inheritor of the Near Eastern section of the empire of Alexander the Great) had set up his statue of Zeus, "the abomination of desolation," to be worshipped by the Jews in their Temple.

Starting an idea of his own for a musical vision of Joan of Arc, he left sketches that seem -- judging from the "Ode to France" that was made from them -- to give far more attention to scenes of desolation than to triumph.

Urban explorers flock to the zone of alienation not to gawk at desolation but to understand the reality and experience of the nuclear catastrophe for themselves.

The Kennedys counseled us for half a century to be optimistic and to strive harder, to find the resilience to overcome those inevitable moments of tragedy and desolation, and to move steadily toward our better selves, as individuals and as a nation.

Writing in Blackwood's about the same time, John Gibson Lockhart compared Godwin's work favorably to Byron's, the two authors sharing dispositions toward "[g]loominess and desolation," not to mention "Satanic sarcasm" and an intriguing tendency to rely on narrators who are "the most incurable of madmen" (473-74).

It announces his plan to launch Jerusalem Prophecy College, a school that will hopefully educate ultrareligious Israeli Jews about the prophecies of the New Testament, and also "train a core group of leaders who can then minister to the Jews of Judea that will be turning to the Lord at the time of Desolation according to Zechariah 12 7".