Sentence examples for tone of desolation from inspiring English sources

There was an ominous immediacy to the most memorable Alice songs, a tone of desolation combined with acceptance, as if the music was already coming from beyond the grave.

As Saint-André said in tones of desolation: "This group of players and staff gave everything for three months in the build-up to this competition, but perhaps three months every four years is not enough.

But aside from the occasional clunker ("His schedule was shot; tomorrow was going to be a nightmare"), the tone of bleak desolation is remarkably faithful to its illustrious model — an achievement that proves more elusive in the second novel.

She seemed entirely in the spirit of desolation.

Although the British thought that they had suffered an unimaginable loss, France had lost 1.4 million men from a smaller population, and in France the dominant tone of war memorials is desolation – Marianne grieving for her lost sons.

Other members of the procession look downward in moods of desolation.

"Sunday" and "Heathen" enveloped images of desolation in eerie, hovering guitar tones; "5:15 the Angels Have Gone" shifted between a mundane chronicle and a confession of desperate love.

It hinged on a lot of desolation".

But despite the overwhelming sense of desolation that confronts the three women, there is such political passion at the heart of her writing that Tearne ensures her elegiac tone is never maudlin.

But the courage was perhaps born of desolation.

What is the price of desolation, and who pays.