He has come through his own "separate desolation", and wandered near the gates of paradise, and he has seen things that ordinary men and women do not see.
Every time the twins looked up and saw each other, they saw their own peculiar form of desolation staring back at them.
Bartholomew wondered if, afterward, he would want to go away; if, without her, his own misfortune would be a desolation he could not bear.
You can see the difference this will make both from the success stories – the sheer joy of a boy who finally has keys to his own place – and in the desolation of another ending, a boy who heard voices and who does not survive.
When the crash comes, you are struggling with your own emotions, grief and loss, desolation and depression, and watching as your wife, your partner, your life jumps the tracks.
After the terrors of "Gomorrah," the moral landscape of "Two Lovers," the new James Gray film, seems altogether smaller and quieter, though scarred by desolations of its own.
He recalls how he felt something that added to his fears – "a desolation, a grief in my own heart".
For Watts, go-karts are the bright spot amid this desolation: he longs for his own kart (unattainable at $4,000 in a store window) and the chance to prove to himself and his peers that he can be a champ.
They now must find a way to end their own standoffs among themselves, here in the desolation of Oregon's high desert.
But unlike "An Unexpected Journey," so weighed down by reverence to the source material, "The Desolation of Smaug" goes its own way.
