Sentence examples for mood of desolation from inspiring English sources

ILL Manors is not a manifesto or a direct polemic, but, like many of the best protest artforms, concentrates on capturing a mood – of desolation and anxiety.

From there she tries to extricate and renew herself in a film that devotes too much energy to sustaining a mood of desolation at the expense of characterization and story but, Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, nevertheless allows Ms. Cartlidge's "beautifully still performance, mournful one moment, defiant the next".

But the film's restraint verges on blankness; a mood of desolation builds in this story of the West Memphis Three, but not an involving drama.

Other members of the procession look downward in moods of desolation.

In the interim, Richard fixed up the house & grounds & dolefully contemplated his mood of purposeful desolation.

But the movie devotes so much of its energy to building and sustaining a mood of urban desolation that the story never quite jells.

A mood of cosmic desolation seeps like late autumn sunlight filtered through clouds in "Lights in the Dusk," the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki's haunting meditation on the downward spiral of a solitary loser in contemporary Helsinki.

Once Mr. Walker shucked off conventional pop forms to write increasingly compressed poetic lyrics and to invent sounds that, in the words of one talking head, deliberately blurred "the boundary between chords and discords," the mood of cosmic desolation that had always lurked in his singing came to the fore.

Today, though, the site is overgrown with vines and trees and the mood is one of desolation and abandonment.

As a tragedy, it is perplexing in that the chief figures of the play (apart from Hector) do not die at the end, and the mood is one of desolation and even disgust rather than tragic catharsis.

(Seitz) 'SLEEPWALKING' (R, 1 40) Filmed mostly in winter, in browns, grays and soiled whites, "Sleepwalking" sustains a mood of unrelenting bleakness, wearing its aesthetic of desolation like a badge of integrity.