Sentence examples for playing desolation from inspiring English sources

Sheen, who says he's never known anyone shyer than Malick, recalls driving up Pacific Coast Highway after getting the part, playing Desolation Row.

Song: "Desolation Row" Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965 Now you would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row (Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music) This song is a not-so-funhouse ride through the dark caravan of rock-star fame — "desolation row," in Mr. Dylan's words.

Did he sing a bluesy "Desolation Row" for its line about "playing the electric violin"?

The sense of desolation is broken only at the end of the movie, by a scene of children playing in the street, their innocent faces making a minimal claim against despair.

When we read the autobiography now, the village parade is a gorgeous panoply: Strachey "in a tangle of his own arms and legs," and Virginia Woolf playing bowls in the garden, the indefatigable Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the jungle, the fishermen, the labors of the Hogarth Press, the different desolations of the two wars, here the struggle, there the failure, here again the unusual triumph.

Others go by in a rush of music-hall patter ("Face Down in the Mud"), druggy haze ("Alice Desgins," which you should say fast to pick up the acid reference), or build on established masterpieces ("Sunset Strip Soliloquy" plays off of Dylan's "Desolation Row").

His photographs and conceptual art are organic to Southern California — beaches, deserts, cities, mountains, the tug of light and at times a desolation playing amid a land of endless reinvention where human bonds can be provisional and many define themselves through the parade of popular culture.

They zoom off to Austria, leaving behind his pregnant wife, played by Katie Holmes with the unmistakable desolation of an actor who can't believe she is saddled with near-silent spouse roles before the age of 40.

:/" - The Note Desolation Plays.

And Bob Dylan says to Charlie McCoy, "Hey, can you play guitar on this track?" And it's "Desolation Row".

It was one of his few songs with a simple plot line, until he dismissed the band to play acoustic guitar and sing a few songs about solitary desolation.