Sentence examples for urban desolation from inspiring English sources
But the story, in this well-made feature, was what has flourished in such urban desolation.
Furthermore, the concentration of dance companies, museums, performance spaces and whatever else on newly developed acreage is a recipe for urban desolation.
Set in a moral landscape that is as bleak as the North East location, by the climax the windswept urban desolation is starting to regenerate.
But the movie devotes so much of its energy to building and sustaining a mood of urban desolation that the story never quite jells.
Watching one scene on the monitor, I remarked to Mr. Kashyap that the frame was beautiful and evoked the urban desolation of Edward Hopper's famous painting of a New York City diner, "Nighthawks".
What is certain is that in these six square blocks of vintage storefronts and artists' studios, a trolley ride across the Arkansas River from downtown Little Rock, urban desolation is giving way to urban cool.
That we could do with table tennis clubs and parlours to re-open in our areas of urban hopelessness and desolation, goes without saying.
In the dire days of the 1930s, Harlem descended into urban decay and cultural desolation.
Hanging in alphabetical order (by artist name), works by 56 of the 80 printmakers supported by the W.P.A. in New York City abound in images of hard labor, urban ennui and rural desolation.
Urban architecture — its beauty and desolation — is a central theme of Genzken's work, which mirrors the city's seething heterogeneity and embodies its extremes of rawness and refinement.
Still, fears of creating dead zones have been muted in Manhattan, where congestion routinely trumps desolation as an urban crisis and where, as a result, some residents actually prefer the sense of solitude.
