In the second half of the book, your heroine, Violet, is tricked into leaving the courtesan house for the desolate Moon Pond village.
Troops in the frontline village of Pisky have a nickname for this desolate stretch: Doroga smert.
The movies, maybe, for the lush atmospherics, for the desolate scenery, for the power inherent in casting and close-ups.
Do people really pay close to a million dollars for this desolate, faux existence?
If that is a cure, it is homeopathic; for the desolate and lonely, only wilderness and solitude.
Schikaneder's incongruously cheerful lament for the desolate Nadine sounds like an outtake from "The Beggar's Opera".
When Jarman filmed there, though, those then-derelict wharf buildings were perfect settings for his desolate vision of England.
Edward Hopper, the American 20th-century painter famous for his desolate images of cafés and garages, is an artist after de Botton's heart.
EXHIBITIONS September * "ARVERNE: HOUSING ON THE EDGE" Teams from Yale, City College and Columbia University are among the designers of proposals for a desolate oceanfront site in Queens.
Heads together, they walked through the area, fantasizing about improving its accessibility — perhaps a monorail from Manhattan, as at Walt Disney World, Ms. Buzzell said — and envisioning a grand future for the desolate stretch of boulevard.
If this is so, then the plump, plastic pulchritude seen here, one miniaturized model to a picture, indicates a yearning for a desolate, self-sufficient and totally narcissistic femininity.
