The small wooden shack stands desolate against a glowering sky.
The cobble-stoned district, known for its lively street life, stood almost desolate compared to better times.
"Whenever I look at the moon I am reminded of that precious moment, over four decades ago, when Neil and I stood on the desolate, barren, yet beautiful, Sea of Tranquillity," he said in a statement.
Its sprawling neighbourhoods stand deserted, desolate, destroyed in a haunting monument to months of brutal conflict.
Pripyat now stands a desolate ghost town, but was once devised as a "city of hope" by the government of Ukraine – hope pinned on a future powered by nuclear technology.
Pripyat now stands a desolate ghost town, but was once devised as a "city of hope" by the government of Ukraine hope pinned on a future powered by nuclear technology.
The ruins at Palmyra didn't really stand in desolate solemnity for 2,000 years until Isis came along to blow it up; until the late-1920s, mofthef the structures had long been toppled and buried, with the village of Tadmur built on its site and modern huts jutting against fractured colonnades.
I stood up, feeling desolate that the interview had come to an end.
"Don't remind me of what we used to have," Mr. Sweleim said as he stood near his desolate fields surrounded by destroyed houses.
One chilly night in March 1990, Jason Nicholas, then 19, stood on a desolate street in Mount Vernon, just north of the Bronx, and fired a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun at Paul Delano, a young man with whom he said he had had a simmering feud.
The shiny, tiny restaurant stood out against a desolate evening backdrop, like Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting.
