Unlike many shopping malls that seem desolate these days, Tanger was teeming with bargain hunters.
By keeping a narrow focus, they designed a place that would almost have to seem desolate.
When the trains do not pass by, the night seems desolate and vacant.
Despite the blue sky and green grass and rolling countryside, the region seems desolate, perhaps because that is all there is: blue sky and green grass.
But this year's show seemed downright desolate.
To an outsider, most of Waziristan seems utterly desolate, as if a flood had just receded from its surface.
Bacon's solitary death at 82 in Madrid seems a desolate, slightly random, parting for a London dweller whose foreign playgrounds, over the years, included Berlin, Paris and Tangier.
It seems really desolate on the surface but is filled with so much vibrance when up close, when you're paying attention.
This loss required remedy, although, in what must have seemed the rather desolate circumstances of Kentish exile, no satisfactory remedy was easily at hand.
