Sentence examples for in a desolation from inspiring English sources

In "A Desolation of Learning", a book published on May 22nd, Mr Woodhead surveys state schools in England and sees a wasteland.

There is perhaps no better way to depict post-catastrophic Chernobyl's drop-in-a-bucket desolation than through the constrained power of the cinemagraph.

Take, for example, the magazine dated June 16 , 1945 in which we see a "Desolation Note" that does not look quite desolate enough to us: "The Minister of Reconstruction in the present Italian government is Signor Ruin".

He recalls how he felt something that added to his fears – "a desolation, a grief in my own heart".

A detachment of the Martian Police Force that includes Lieutenant Ballard (Natasha Henstridge) is assigned to bring in an escaped felon, James (Desolation) Williams (Ice Cube), who is hiding out at the Shining Canyon mining center.

Damon Galgut sets his novel in an inherited desolation.

Tyrannosaur inhabits a closed-in atmosphere of desolation – though not despair – that some will find compelling, others oppressive.

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On one hand, he spun tales of damaged power: a newspaper tycoon rises from poverty and ends in desolation; a cop fakes evidence in order to convict people he thinks to be guilty; a macho director secretly longs for the young male stars of his pictures.

There's barely a moment that doesn't feature some giddy effect, and many are certainly striking: the camera rockets away from Ralston wedged deep in his gulley, then vaults into the skies to reveal his prison as a tiny fissure in a vast ochre desolation.

In a state of desolation, a series of chance encounters over the winter of 1972 led him to a squat on Charrington Street, not far from St. Pancras station.