Sentence examples for personal desolation from inspiring English sources
Barely cloaked in each Dylan reference is a custom-built appeal for Dylan fans on their personal Desolation Row: Are you lost?
Yet the movie is haunted by death and loss, focussing on men who live in stifled grief and reconcile themselves to solitude — a personal desolation that is doubled by Japan's collective mourning for those who were lost to the country's catastrophic war.
As coal black as her imagery gets, and as overriding as the sadness in her ongoing personal desolation might be, there is an unrelenting sense that there's a reason for it.
To avoid the desolation of her personal life, Beeching would perform endlessly, ensuring every birthday and public holiday was booked up.
Having seen up-close and personal the despondency, vulnerability and total desolation in the eyes of hundreds of Vietnamese refugees back in the '70s, there has always been a special place in my heart for those who flee their country for political, religious economic or other reasons.
The horrific death of six million Jews and the widespread hatred, panic and desolation of the Holocaust is a close and personal experience for many.
Adventures of the cracked and feckless sort ensue, our druggie buoyed along by the demands of his addiction and "a positive outlook," which he defines as "a trick whereby you convince yourself that the desolation of your world is a phase in your personal growth".
"You Didn't Mean Anything To Me," written by Dee Dee, reflects the desolation and vacillation which the bassist was feeling in his personal life as well as while he was with the band.
Distress may also be seen as a perfectly normal response to adverse personal circumstances, as in the case of one young man, whose evident desolation after the traumatic death of his wife rang no alarm bells whatsoever with family and friends.
Though Mozart struggled during these years with almost constant insolvency and a string of personal tragedies, the end of his life was not, Wolff writes, "a time determined by resignation, hopelessness, and desolation" but, rather, a "new beginning".
