Sentence examples for human desolation from inspiring English sources

There is a sadness and a loneliness to these stories that goes beyond the postmodern and touches on some essential human desolation.

"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".

Tippett's inspiration was realising that the spirituals convey a significance beyond their origin as 19th-century American slave songs, and that their music transcends time and place to poignantly unite the two extremes of the human condition: desolation and hope.

Andrew Bromfield's translation of Hamid Ismailov's The Dead Lake (Peirene Press) captures the poetry of loss in a contemporary telling of tragic human and environmental desolation on the Kazakh steppes.

To grow prosperous from pain and sorrow and the desolation of human failure.

"American Masters" salutes Dorothea Lange, the photographer whose intimate images helped put a human face on poverty, desolation and hunger during the Great Depression.

Adrian's account of "the desolation of the human spirit" was not particularly "televisual".

Essential to Camus' existential isolation was the discrepancy between the power and beauty of nature, and the desolation of the human condition.

A wilderness of monkeys is a figure for the desolation of the human heart when faithfulness and honour have fled it.

Lyrically, much of Aquemini features introspection about the desolation of the human condition.

The quiet desolations and ambiguities of human relationships are the matters of most concern to this chronicler of the intricate disillusions of experience.