Sentence examples for its desolation from inspiring English sources

Zombie-like, its portrait of inactivity is perhaps more dystopian now in its desolation than it was during its heydey in Ridley Scott's youth.

North Philadelphia in 2011 was hardly alone in its desolation.

Palestinian society, in its desolation, seems more susceptible than ever to the romance of martyrdom".

The pool was pristine, inviting in its desolation, the water a Mediterranean blue, brushed by the wind.

Accounts of Ndongo as rich and populous in the 16th century gave way to lamentations about its desolation in the 17th.

an angry work, though narrower in its desolation, more explicitly didactic and to that extent less alive [than Barker's earlier novels].

If I were really writing to you I wouldn't need to tell you how your work, your photographs and your words, have, over decades, inscribed a vivid map of humankind in our part of the world – its pain, its joy, its violence, its sorrow and desolation, its stupidity, its cruelty, its sheer, crazy complicatedness – on to our consciousness.

It became a matter of conscience to him to be European and American, to relish the sensual world and yet be true to its desolations.

But to environmentalists, its unspoiled desolation, and its role in the complex ecosystem of the North Slope, argue for leaving it untouched.

Tobin, demonized and idealized, perceived as both a pariah and a prophet, is a target onto which the community of Midlothia projects its own desolation, a totem of its refusal to think.

Its convenient desolation has made it a place where city dwellers come to run wild, myriad movies and commercials are filmed and experimental military drones soar in the sky.