He could not bear the desolateness of her crying.

"I liked the loneliness and desolateness, the heavily wooded feeling of it.

The film is uncompromising, all of a piece, its desolateness unleavened by incidental pleasures.

In its desolateness, this picture presages the landscapes recorded on long walks by a contemporary English Conceptualist, Richard Long.

His 1862 confession that he found the church he loved and had joined "very little but desert and desolateness" could have been made at many another time as well.

Bad enough to forecast his own desolateness when Lovin Child was no longer romping up and down the dead line, looking where he might find some mischief to get into.

The foregoing accounts give equally clear evidence of Muslim endurance, of their disregard for excessive heat, for the desolateness of the countryside and shortage of water.

But while Neil Patel's barroom set has a low-life desolateness that Mack the Knife might have appreciated, don't expect much in the way of lurid thrills.

This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears- he called loudly for his wife and children- the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his voice, and then all again was silence.

Amis said, "What makes Mr Gardner's book so hard to read is not so much its endlessly silly story as its desolateness, its lack of the slightest human interest or warmth.

Now the park is a well guarded open space whose desolateness amidst the humdrum of the dense traffic and crowded shanty towns of northern Delhi's urban sprawl is disappointing to the visitors.