Sentence examples for on desolation from inspiring English sources
He began listening one evening at Smith College in 1968 when after dinner his host turned out the lights and put on "Desolation Row -- a song bound to catch an English teacher's attention since it has the lines (or used to, until Mr. Dylan stopped including them) about "Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot/Fighting in the captain's tower/While calypso singers laugh at them".
There's one literary figure who seems to have a copyright on desolation and futility, who wrote about last things almost from the first, Samuel Beckett.
A tedium, verging on desolation, infuses this particular corner of provincial life.
State to sit in povery on Desolation Peak as a fire watcher all summer, Cascade mts.
Kerouac, I remembered, was 34 during his time on Desolation Peak and did stints in the Navy and the merchant marine.
When I was twelve or thirteen, I bought a cassette tape of "Highway 61 Revisited," and quickly settled on "Desolation Row" as my favorite Dylan song.
On top of Desolation Peak sits a fire tower where famed Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac (On the Road, The Dharma Bums) lived for a summer while serving as a fire lookout.
A life of desolation on the rainswept Yorkshire moors was a fine distraction, but it ended too soon, and I came out of the theater dazed by California sunshine and the prospect of more hours to fill.
The Robinsons are living where few people even dare to drive, here in the midst of a vast stretch of desolation on the banks of the Mississippi River east of New Orleans in St. Bernard Parish.
In the second half, "012-RAG," Mr. Matsumoto's amplified guitar emits waves of sound as Mr. Tanno, in a tattered burlap outfit, hair gray, looking increasingly spent, staggers through a desert of desolation, on a diagonal.
Remarking on the contrast between the dying figures in the foreground and the figures in the mid-ground waving towards the approaching rescue ship, the French art historian Georges-Antoine Borias wrote that Géricault's painting represents, "on the one hand, desolation and death.
