Sentence examples for destruction and desolation from inspiring English sources

Incredible, unimaginable electronic sounds bring to mind destruction and desolation.

The immersive, shifting images create an amorphous lyricism that could be said to romanticize destruction and desolation.

Ultimately she survives the destruction and desolation of the Occupation through the books she can read in braille.

They show a land passing from "savage state" and "pastoral or Arcadian state" to achieve "the consummation of empire," which is then inexorably followed by "destruction" and "desolation".

Dr. Murphy said the political implications of "Empire's" five paintings — "The Savage State," "The Arcadian or Pastoral State," "The Consummation of Empire," "Destruction" and "Desolation" — are as clear for today's audiences as those 175 years ago.

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, speaking before Benedict at the refugee camp, also used the opportunity to assail Israel's separation barrier, saying more than five million Palestinians were living in "a large prison, amid the siege, destruction and desolation".

The leader of a machine city squares off against a prophet preaching destruction, as war, death, and desolation sprawl before them.

As in Chartres' Cathedral, as in the Lincoln Memorial, the West symbolically means death and desolation: it is the place where the sun sets.

It's brimming with destruction, desolation and impressions of a wrathful God.

Suddenly, we are there, and desolation, desperation, and death are very real.

In the slideshow below, we've compiled images from art history that give form to prophecies of destruction, desolation, madness and, occasionally, redemption.