Sentence examples for total desolation from inspiring English sources

There is nothing more exquisite and penetrating than the images of total desolation in the Japanese texts on death.

The president of Ivory Coast's National Union of Shopkeepers, Abdoulaye Diakité, slowly sipped a coffee and explained: "It's total desolation.

The tremendous horn section of the Philharmonia did not disappoint when their moment came, closing a dazzling performance of this darkly bucolic, sylvan symphony and a Prom that had run from total desolation to glorious hope.

Port Talbot isn't a heritage shell like Glasgow's shipyards or London's Docklands, nor a crude cypher for total desolation like the ex-mining towns elsewhere in Wales.

The hub of this production, in my frenemy's flat, had a leaking ceiling, with plastic tarps on the floor and slung over all the furniture, and an overall look of total desolation.

Having seen up-close and personal the despondency, vulnerability and total desolation in the eyes of hundreds of Vietnamese refugees back in the '70s, there has always been a special place in my heart for those who flee their country for political, religious economic or other reasons.

Total: $101.6m66 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, $8m.

Total: $200.8m The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – review The stars of The Hobbit on the latest Tolkein epic.

For others, it's a weeklong look down the barrel of total emotional ruination, an entering into complete desolation.

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Total: $297.8m2.. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, $18.2m3.. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, $16.3m.