Sentence examples for image of desolation from inspiring English sources

The turning point (what Aristotle called "peripeteia") in her magnificent performance comes when, with half-closed bedroom eyes, she seeks to renew her old amorous attachment to Pastor Manders: coldly spurned, Manville becomes the image of desolation.

"I am like a pelican of the wilderness, a mournful and even hideous object, the very image of desolation".

The images of desolation and remoteness from that day have haunted me my whole life.

"Sunday" and "Heathen" enveloped images of desolation in eerie, hovering guitar tones; "5:15 the Angels Have Gone" shifted between a mundane chronicle and a confession of desperate love.

Krause's acoustic diagrams of rainforest habitats before and after logging are powerful images of desolation: a formerly dense web of timbres now striated with mournful gaps of silence.

Permeated with images of desolation, confinement and wreckage, and punctuated with bombings, hijackings and airplane crashes (in areas that, before Sept. 11, would have seemed wildly improbable), they convey the mood of grief, anger and vulnerability that has descended over the city.

Strikingly melancholy, WALLE, directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, is surely the only children's animation ever to open with an image of apocalyptic desolation.

In most current, eroded productions of "Giselle" the dead heroine returns to her grave, leaving Albrecht alone in an image of romantic desolation.

Jordan may dwell on its image of desert  desolation but, in truth, if you're dreaming of vast dunes, gloomy bazaars and fading romance, go elsewhere.

Nakhchivan only managed to pull itself out of the image of 1990s desolation by reestablishing communications with and access to the energy resources and attendant wealth of the central government (up to two percent of the national budget goes to Nakhchivani development, along with grants of natural gas and tax breaks).

There is nothing more exquisite and penetrating than the images of total desolation in the Japanese texts on death.