Sentence examples for quiet desolation from inspiring English sources
At the start of the Grave of the second sonata his sound was at is most radiant and singing; at the end it thinned into quiet desolation.
One of the most startling elements of Cronin's writing is his willingness to jump time: The Passage's opening thunders along at a popcorn-movie pace until it halts, leaping forward 93 years to the quiet desolation of an isolated colony sitting in the ruins of what was once the US.
People who love off-season Coney Island, with its shuttered carnival games and snowbound beaches, praise its quiet, its beauty – its desolation.
The quiet desolations and ambiguities of human relationships are the matters of most concern to this chronicler of the intricate disillusions of experience.
RWAKE It's been four years since the last record by Rwake, the doom-metal band from Arkansas; "Rest," with quiet tunnels of desolation amid slow repeated vamps and old-time dual guitar leads, sounds hungry and desperate.
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.
She's now a frontier wife in a covered wagon, an image she relates to her librarianship: She's an "outpost," "the chair with an ear,/the cook and comforter on desolation's porch". Despite the apparent grimness, "Quiet Money" has humor.
It's still full of garbage, ditches and desolation.
Still, what future is possible given the environmental desolation?
He evokes the quiet beauty of old Isfahan, the harsh, sunstruck brilliance of the small towns on the gulf and the desolation of the no man's land near the border with Iraq.
