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Desolation meaning
The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. | The state of being desolated or laid waste | A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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Director Martin Ritt skillfully juxtaposed Newman's outward sex appeal with the character's internal desolation through cinematography.
The soldier’s posture is awkward, almost inattentive; the whole mood is one of melancholy, if not desolation.
Amid the destruction and desolation left behind by Tropical Storm Helene, a spot on the South Slope has emerged as a hive of positive activity.
He arrived by chance and was thrilled by its desolation — 'vast hills and plains, with exposed black and brown earth spots everywhere, under a pallid canopy of brooding silence'.
Indeed, the desolation is also apparent in the new port security center, the flagship project.
Ms O’Malley said: ‘I feel absolute desolation and unfathomable grief at her loss.
Over the decades, we have seen the Marvel hero deal with horrific stories, but none compare to the desolation Fujimoto is capable of creating.
Actor Richard Armitage attends the premiere of "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," based on a novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, at TCL Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on December 2, 2013.
And what do we do in the battle against the spiritual virus of depression and desolation?
Duluth is the home town of famed folk singer Bob Dylan, whose 1965 song “Desolation Row” was written in part about the crime.
His voice comes through with all its steely mockery, derision, desolation and disgust well preserved and presented.
It’s a superb evocation of New York’s folk scene in 1961, with desolation and dark humour at its heart.
It’s the sound of a Land that has borne desolation, destruction, and the death of dreams – it’s calling you, finally ready for your return.
Studies have proven that when professors’ minds become dormant and inactive, this often results in desolation and anguish.
The government also banned all riverbed alluvial mining with immediate effect, except on the Save and Angwa rivers where desolation will be allowed under very strict conditions.
Dante’s View, Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Desolation Canyon, and Artist’s Palette were all used for various scenes.
Dehgan, who visited La Pampa’s desolation, calls conservation technology a “force multiplier” in areas of negligent enforcement.
General William T. Sherman of the American Army captures the dreariness of war in these scary words; “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
This is another quote from The Desolation of Smaug, but this line is said by elven King Thranduil.
Drawing together allusions high and low, from the Fire Sermon of the Buddha and the “Confessions” of Saint Augustine to gossip from Eliot’s maid, the fragmentary poem reads as a clamor of voices, linked together by imagery of water and desolation.