Sentence examples for desolation with from inspiring English sources
Her protagonists appear on a spectrum between distress and desolation, with little hope of escape.
Action movies, including Mr. Carnahan's earlier films, often turn death into sport, numbing pain, fear and desolation with the visceral rush of violence.
The scene at the foot of the bridge over the Diyala River was one of utter desolation, with the ground littered with smoldering Iraqi bodies.
When his icy gloom and patented self-pity found themselves matched by his poetic wit, however, Nemerov could invoke feelings of modern desolation with a panache that rivaled anything out of Robert Lowell.
The ending of the production is beautifully judged in its desolation, with McTeer and her female associates holding their hands of cards close to their chest in a game fundamentally loaded against them and in a landscape where only a corpse has found peace.
"Antichrist" is set in Seattle and the wilds of the Northwest, as far from Mumbai as can be imagined, and the glum interiors — the bathroom where the couple made love is now a scummy blue — compete for desolation with the great outdoors.
But as Lerman mused late in life, "the final desolation comes with the realization that life is like fiction".
There was an ominous immediacy to the most memorable Alice songs, a tone of desolation combined with acceptance, as if the music was already coming from beyond the grave.
His account of "Net, tol'ka tot, kto znal" ("No, Only One Who Knows," Op. 6, No. 6) was the picture of desolation, conveyed with thoughtful shading and a judicious use of vibrato, and he created an irresistibly raw emotional underpinning to enliven "Atchevo?" ("Why?" Op. 6, No. 5).
The characters in his works face challenges worthy of any tragedy: Evy Meara ("The Gingerbread Lady") struggles with alcoholism; Willie Clark ("The Sunshine Boys") with desolation and revenge; Felix Ungar ("The Odd Couple") with loneliness; Mel Edison ("The Prisoner of Second Avenue") with disillusion and unfulfillment.
Hospital trolleys rubbed shoulders with angels, and beach antics with desolation as the company, in costumes designed by Gianni Versace, danced their way through 20 episodes to conclude with I Want to Be Free and The Show Must Go On.
