Sentence examples for war desolation from inspiring English sources

Coppola finds a balance of tenderness and despair — the girls seem too drugged by the place, with its First World War desolation, to care about being manhandled — that he has never repeated elsewhere.

It is on its trial here, and the issue will be civil war, desolation, and anarchy.

They're songs about love, death, war, poverty, desolation and faith, and they seem to have recharged Mr. Dylan.

The novel is set in a society 5,000 years in the future, where only those who have completed a fixed term of military service are allowed to vote and where teachers tell their pupils (in direct opposition to Wilfred Owen) that: "the noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and war's desolation".

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation.

O! thus be it ever, when Germans shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation... .. Francis Scott Key was himself a slave owner and enforcer of slavery.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation... .. What Francis Scott Key was describing was a land of the free and a home of the brave for white people - the freemen, and a land of the unfree for the enslaved black people of the United States.

A fine imaginative touch has this Glaswegian (plus plastic baby in a high chair) seeing her husband go off to war to the desolation of Glasvegas's Daddy's Gone sung by the cast.

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.

The leader of a machine city squares off against a prophet preaching destruction, as war, death, and desolation sprawl before them.