Sentence examples for truly desolate from inspiring English sources
It was neither sprawling nor high-rise enough to be truly desolate.
He could tell they were friendsby the marked improvement in their moodswhen his was at its most truly desolate.
This was a truly desolate part of Manhattan.
"It's never really desolate," he said.
Offbeat tales such as "Two Disagreeable Pigeons" lighten the truly affecting desolate vision that colours Highsmith's work, most powerfully expressed in "The Trouble with Mrs Blynn, The Trouble with the World", in which a dying woman's focus on a petty issue, her epiphany arriving too late, provides a perfectly proportioned allegory.
Though he acknowledged the difficulty of even approaching 40 m.p.h. on many city streets, Mr. Kornegay wondered whether speeding was truly dangerous along desolate stretches where pedestrian traffic can be minimal at certain hours.
She reminds me of Celia Coplestone, the shallow socialite in T. S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party," who, devastated by a love that isn't truly reciprocated, surprises everyone in the last act by going off to do humanitarian work in a desolate corner of Africa and becoming a kind of saint.
– Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted – On this home by horror haunted – tell me truly, I implore – Is there – is there balm in Gilead?
Her expression became desolate.
