Ed Ruscha's Hollywood sign goes off into the sunset; there is desolation in the mountains that contain no sign of animal, fish or human.
But there was no desolation on that block, Ms. Warner.
There's deep desolation in the songs, and an aching, bluesy edge in her voice.
For another there is utter desolation when renaissance was all he craved.
Sir Ernest Shackleton once wrote: "In all the world there is no desolation more complete than the polar night.
There's a desolation to this symphony, a chilly, lonely introspection, that I've never felt so keenly.
I had to let go of my desire to find every picture, and just experience the vast nature of the landscape around me. Yes, there is much desolation here, and many abandoned relics from businesses long gone.
From that point north, there was a startling, lifeless desolation, as if someone had decided to eradicate all signs of cryptogamic life.
Yet amid the bars and sidewalk cafes along nearby Broadway, there was a pocket of relative desolation.
