There was an edge of disconsolateness in my voice this time, along with cold-blooded fear.

Instead of the overfullness of squalor, we have the disconsolateness or forlornness of underfurnishing.

What mattered was that right at the end, with an emphatic conclusion in sight, Mr. Glass drew back, took his music into darker, more chromatic territory, had his choir re-enter in moaning disconsolateness, and only then moved toward his close.