On top of the out-of-hours desolation, it can also feel a bit geographically isolated at IAH at times.
The air felt cold and mystical, so I brought out the pages of "Desolation Angels" I had ripped from their binding for the trip.
Arestrup was outstanding in Audiard's previous film, The Beat That My Heart Skipped – also, intriguingly, in a tense, mutually resentful relationship with a younger man – but here he brings out new strains of desolation.
In his last, unfinished Tenth Symphony he laid out an imaginary landscape of desolation and emotional violence, of resignation and scant solace that by now seems eerily prescient of the calamitous century that would follow, one in which his own very great music would emerge triumphant.
Beyond, a landscape of desolation opens out – broken concrete and rubble, freight wagons, containers being shifted and stacked.
We saw the effect the next morning, a terrible scene of desolation laid out on a field edged with wild flowers.
Even so, gettest me out of this place of desolation".
We all have to climb out of the pit of desolation, or what is more likely, manage to live in it, planting our flowers among the ashes and squirting them with our gaiety.
It was the kind of location that might have been scouted for the closing scenes of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," where the shining sea turns out to be just a further extent of desolation.
Hamas is an idea, a desperate and fanatical idea that grew out of the desolation and frustration of many Palestinians.
