| 单词 | desolate |
| 例句 | But when I found it, this new road proved, if anything, more desolate than the one I had left. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The desolate picture of wildlife loss had changed little when the biologists resumed the studies broken off in 1955. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Easy access from the air, but remote and desolate for land-bound humans. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was a desolate, cratered face, sooty with care like an abandoned mining town. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And for such a desolate place—she looked around and saw nothing but a barren landscape—he was oddly dressed, in a fashion that was unfamiliar to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Its top was crowned with a circle of weathered stones, a ringfort of the First Men that had stood desolate and abandoned for hundreds of years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The hospital ward had dissipated like smoke into that desolate stretch of earth, surrounded by shadowed structures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was the same vehicle whence, a year ago, I had alighted one summer evening on this very spot—how desolate, and hopeless, and objectless! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The dream is something about silos and a truck and a yellow field, no longer desolate but full of color. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He’s trying to run alongside her on the dry, desolate Highway 12. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If Annabelle ran on US Route 12 and not the desolate 200, she’d be facing blind curves, and navigating tight spaces next to guardrails and steep, forested cliffs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The big room was echoingly empty and she felt desolate and lost. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Fadi pressed his nose against the cold glass, peering across the desolate landscape. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Now, it’s home to some of the most desolate land in the state. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They were the first cowboys in a wild and desolate land which they took from the Indians. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With a sigh, I turned around and trudged back the way I had come, in a mood neatly suited to the desolate landscape. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Is the color right? Is it desolate and terrible?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z So Will knew that all those things were part of having a dæmon, and that whatever his dæmon was, she, too, was left behind, with Pantalaimon, on that poisoned and desolate shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Other pages of the newspaper had photographs of burning buildings, boarded-up stores, and desolate streets. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I’d never entered Coosa Liquors, but it was every bit as desolate as Alaska described. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It could not have been Jello for the scent did not have the bitter odor of an angry and desolate wolf. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As I made my desolate way back to the stairs, my wise self took the opportunity to berate me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Its long, steep inclines lay broad and desolate; its high-curbed gutters swarmed, most winter nights, with traveling rain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sophie peeped over the rim of the ear and watched the desolate landscape of Giant Country go whizzing by. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ugly, desolate store, with posters of Marvel superheroes taped to the wall, where all you heard were stories of things that might have happened. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He turns into his usual spot, reaches into the back for his backpack, gets out, and starts walking across the desolate lot. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Sparling became restive and bitter and began to talk in a desolate monotone about his eleven months in France during the Great War. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z So desolate were those places and so deep the horror that lay on them that some of the host were unmanned, and they could neither walk nor ride further north. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He yanked my arm, and dragged me through the desolate orchard. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She knew how these desolate homeless men felt, for she herself had come to Africa with a few friends fleeing from her brother who wanted to murder her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a place the Fallen Angels might have built as a spite to Heaven, dry and sharp, desolate and dangerous, and for me filled with foreboding. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z So do I leave us upon this ship anchored by a smoldering, desolate town, where we have been drifting for more than a month, sickly with the smallpox, which only spreads its infamous depredations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It is a desolate region, and we had no map of it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But the flowers, the smell, the movement of the leaves persist, rich, mesmerizing, desolating, infused with grief. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But there were not many black people visible on this day and Paradise had the look of a town desolated by plague or the rumor of plague. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I would lie down on her bed, bury my face in her pillow, caress the objects she had left on her night table, and feel completely desolate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It stood dark and desolate behind the remains of a collapsed sept where only rats had come to pray for near three hundred years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Uncle Al is desolate, weeping and honking into his red handkerchief and allowing himself only the occasional upward glance to gauge whether the procession’s speed allows for maximum crowd enlargement. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The area around Castle Anorak, which had been crowded with warring avatars a split second before, was now a desolate and barren wasteland. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I couldn’t fully comprehend why we had been displaced, why people would resent us so much that they would drive us from our homes into this barren, desolate place. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The water was desolate, the sky was cloudless, deep blue, and the wind was steady, strong, and dry. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I’m making my way over paths across desolate fields, with the lights of the vuvv compound in front of me. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No man thinks of walking in this desolate place.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My bed was unmade and breakfast dishes lay desolate in the sink. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They lived in a log cabin, in the desolate hill country outside Austin, where they herded cattle and scratched the earth for whatever food it might yield. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z From a distant radio I heard the desolating music of a dance orchestra. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But the stronger it got, the more desolate he became. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z If there is a more desolate, inhospitable habitation anywhere on the planet, I hope never to see it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It still lay in furrows, looking rather desolate, and a few weeds had come up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I knew from my clock that the earth was about to reappear, and right on schedule it popped into view, rising like a blue and white jewel over the desolate lunar horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded at intervals with the fog whistle from the lighthouse, a higher note, more desolate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Papa Papa Papa Papa,” Marie-Laure is saying, but her body seems to have detached itself from her voice, and her words make a faraway, desolate cadence. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In her desolate wanderings she came to Eleusis and sat by the wayside near a well. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He was standing in the middle of a desolate but strangely familiar room, with peeling paper on the walls and all the windows boarded except for one. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z These were vast, airy marshes, some of them thirty miles wide, as splendid as fields of ripened wheat, yet as desolate in some ways as the dark side of the moon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Isolated and desolate, it had no main streets. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As we walk back to our seats, Luke begins dragging himself across the screen with complete, desolate desperation. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The landing site was at the near edge of the great desolate region, a peat-marsh too boggy to be farmed or settled, and now in mid-Irrem a flat frozen waste many feet deep in snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But once I drove a few feet down a dirt road through the initial roadside stand of oak and pine trees, it was every bit as desolate as Grovepoint Acres. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z "The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath and there's a persistent wail all night along the North Shore." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I hurried by, desolate, my ears ringing with the noise of the place. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He said that he couldn’t bear to think of them spending a lonely, desolate Christmas in England. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The station looked eerie, desolate, frozen with only remnants of the chaos that had taken place. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She was cold and desolate, alone and desolate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All the other places they'd come upon had been empty and desolate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Still—I was desolated when he climbed away and headed back west. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may become desolate, and street, battleground, and flesh may become fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Around them the land turned ever more desolate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She could not have conceived of a more desolate cortege. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He sits on a bench and sketches the town houses in the Place des Vosges, walks along the desolate gravel paths in the Luxembourg Gardens. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The more desolate and isolated a place was, the better Mom and Dad liked it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The riders vanished beyond the trees and the grove seemed empty and desolate. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The land is so pale and desolate that I might be standing on a distant, dead moon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Pseudovisions had been pointed out to me a couple times before on drives with my parents, but I’d never seen one so desolate. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Babi ended up sitting alone on a folding chair in the hallway, looking desolate and small. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z At the time, however, the rift with Van made Elizebeth feel desolate. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Not to deceive myself, I must reply—No: I felt desolate to a degree. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She saw a desolate sadness in its place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At this very moment, no doubt, she is pondering with regret decisions made in the far-off past that have now left her, deep in middle age, so alone and desolate. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Matt and Chacho walked over a landscape even more desolate than the area near the saltworks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After the night of desolate loneliness I felt very good to be surrounded by warm and friendly but cautious people. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z That part of school, on the North Hampden side, was usually peaceful and desolate, the snow trackless and undisturbed beneath the pines until spring. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The old people, Ultima said, always helped each other; through good or bad they stuck together, and the friendships that were formed in that desolate llano were bonds for life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton knew—everyone knew—that they could not hold out on that desolate spot all winter. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But the Boss had no idea what he would find when he returned to the desolate spot where he had left his men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Without stickball, the school yard had an eerie look, as desolate as Chungking during an air raid. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “I shall be desolate if you don’t remember me, Prince,” she cooed at her reflection. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t love him, she couldn’t trust him, but she had to admire him, and the extravagant luxury he’d assembled in this desolate wasteland, and the power of his ambition. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They clung together like survivors of a shipwreck, shivering on a desolate coast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Now will you tell me where we are?” asked Tock as he looked around the desolate island. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the way now lay through the Strellon Game Reserve, country that was more desolate and rugged than anything they had yet encountered. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing be-side a desolate rock on the seashore. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the sound of an engine, so curiously out of place in this desolate wilderness, was getting alarmingly loud. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A desolate loneliness settled on me—almost a frightening loneliness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good God!” cried Mr. Pocket, in an outbreak of desolate desperation. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The ship looked desolate there upon her side, with no one on her decks, and her thin black funnel pointing to the shore. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The years he spoke of are now past; the night comes when a bitter marriage overtakes me, desolate as I am, deprived by Zeus of all the sweets of life. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never before been in so desolate a place. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the emptiness of Abuelo’s room inside myself, the cold, stippled walls desolate and hard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was that kind of desolate feeling—just looking at huge hills of rubble: of brick and broken wooden slats that had once been houses. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes and Felicia and Javier are middle-aged now and desolate, deaf and blind to the world, to each other, to her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A desolate banging, from a girl who could count the years since she felt any real presence on the other side of that door. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s desolate voice pursues her, even as his body remains on the other side of the locked gate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Choosing the loneliest, most desolate spot he could find, he backed under an overhanging tree in the far corner of the lot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt too desolate to charm the grownups that night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the fury of his torment he tried futilely to rouse the omens that had guided his youth along dangerous paths into the desolate wasteland of glory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Jaja said that when he looked through the keyhole, Papa was holding Yewande’s hand and praying, telling her to repeat “none of those who trust in Him shall be left desolate.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z All day they have moved through this strange and desolate region and have seen nothing but sunflowers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The moon was desolate and gray by comparison. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I studied the clouds’ dark shapes—flocks of lost sheep straying across a desolate wasteland, blown to rags and tatters by the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Parts of the South Side had become desolate as businesses shut down and families continued to move out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The foragers were there before us and they brought about dramatic changes even in the densest jungles and the most desolate wildernesses. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I could picture his excitement at finding a flower he couldn't categorize, growing in some lonely, desolate part of Iraq. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He had fallen overboard as a baby from the side of his father’s ship and been washed up on a desolate shore, where a female wolf had suckled him and kept him alive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I wonder how it got out there in the desolate part of California like that. Somebody must have put it there. No way to tell what for.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z And the loneliness—the desolate cold aloneness of the landscape made Andy whimper because there wasn’t anybody at all in the world and he was left. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman—almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She was left with the desolate certainty that her father would have done again what he did fifteen years ago. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was obvious to any outsider that Cange needed some kind of community health system, but the place was so desolate that it was hard to know where to start. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The alley behind the school was desolate, and so was the playground. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He took the road for Cambridge, crossing desolate Charlestown Common with its salt marshes, clay pits, gallows, and gibbet. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw his desolate eyes through the broken tiles and had no reaction of shame but rather one of alarm. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But the Northern Lands had long been desolate, and the North Road was now seldom used: it was grass-grown, and the Bree-folk called it the Greenway. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Commons lawn stretched out wide and desolate like some Napoleonic battlefield: churned, sordid, roiled with footprints. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It made Mm fed desolate, to be abandoned by tbs water of the well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was swept with sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that Bill was no longer talking to him, and he felt suddenly desolate and alone. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s just a very lonely, helpless feeling at first—a kind of desolate feeling. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “She expired without a sigh. How desolate it makes one to think of her frank cordial manners.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The landscape turns more and more desolate—sand and scrub brush, jackrabbits and snakes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z To get to downtown Johannesburg, one had to travel along a desolate highway that cut through an unpopulated area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The day has been filled . . . with talk about supers, single weapons capable of desolating a vast area,” Lilienthal recorded sourly, his earlier admiration for Lawrence shattered by the latter’s enthusiasm for this loathsome new weapon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If you were to sicken or die, I should be desolate. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A dust devil twirled eastward from the sage across the flat deserted fields, catching tumbleweeds, bouncing them along and letting them go, weaving among the crumbled houses and rusty car hulks—a truly desolate scene. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "She used to be able to understand. We'd sit for hours----" He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “I wish you were....Sometimes one is desolate, there are moments when one is in hell, as it were, but—it also brings with it other and better things.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I looked out and saw a white countryside, desolate except where ripples of blue broke the snowdrifts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When little Vladimir finally relinquished her, with assurances that he was ‘desolated to leave so early’, she was ready to rest, and see how her recreant knight had borne his punishment. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z More desolate, more desperate than ever, it seemed from contrast. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Cullen was a "beach pounder," and one of his duties was patrolling the three-mile stretch of desolate shoreline for any suspicious activity. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Our neighborhood will be desolate in a day or two,” he concluded solemnly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z For three weeks we trudged all over that desolate land with enormous loads on our backs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z So they set off across the floor of that great desolate plain, and the harpies wheeled higher and higher overhead, screaming and screaming. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “But,” he thought, as he met once more her desolate eyes, “what is she good for now?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s who the minders are like—the adults of Omelas, the ones who smile and go about their day and revel in the false illusion of freedom while their souls are withered, desolate things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They turn onto a bumpy road off the highway, which grows bumpier and bumpier as it climbs up into wilder, more desolate country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He had never felt so desolate in his whole life. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In a fragile whisper, she said, “They have flying machines,” and watched, desolate, as the understanding changed their three faces, bullying out the last defiant shred of hope, leaving nothing but despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In this baked, desolate, treeless landscape, scattered with small tin-roofed huts and dusty walking paths, we drove through a gate and onto smooth pavement. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Compared with the desolate scene outside the car, his eyes look like the dancing flame of a lit match. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It was a longer walk than I’d expected, and it soon took me off the main road and through some particularly desolate country near Mount Cataract. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But here and there, interspersed among the desolate shells of the heavy old public buildings, I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mama was so desolate, her oldest brother Charlie couldn’t stand it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z After seven empty villages, they had all come to dread finding Craster's as dead and desolate as the rest, but it seemed they would be spared that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I stood behind him as he opened the door to my room and saw over his shoulder the desolate, windowless cubicle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it for ever with the bitterest remorse. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z She invited us onto her property, a desolate piece of land we would have never imagined was inhabited, set far enough back from the road that we hadn’t seen it through the trees. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It might have come from the cold spaces of the dark sky outside, so unearthly and desolate was the sound. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Enemy must have some great need or purpose,” said Radagast; “but what it is that makes him look to these distant and desolate parts, I cannot guess.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Now the three travelers were standing on a desolate plain, with no signs of any kind of life whatsoever. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I stood there for a lifetime, carved out and desolate, and kept saying Otto’s name. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Fadi took in the desolate junction, trying to imagine bustling streets, shops overflowing with stacks of gleaming paper, customers haggling over prices. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror; but when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The township encompassed the Union Stock Yards and two large parks: Washington Park, with lawns, gardens, and a popular racetrack, and Jackson Park, a desolate, undeveloped waste on the lakeshore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The witch did not step toward them, she did not call to them, she merely stood there, completely still, the center of this desolate universe, while the air bowed to her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Summer and Grey Wind and Shaggydog had begun to howl before they crossed the drawbridge, in voices drawn and desolate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When Admetus returned to his empty and desolate house Hercules was there to greet him, and by his side was a woman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion was surprised at how desolate it made him feel to say it, even after all these years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On the sidewalk I’ll feel her girlish walk take over, and die movement brings back a kind of emotion, a desolate and gossipy sympathy for the girls I see coming home from school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Through the open door she could see her employer pacing up and down with a desolate air. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z How flat and desolate his path had been! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z China, taking advantage of the chaos, launches its full arsenal of nuclear weapons at key US targets, initiating a full-blown thermonuclear war that ultimately renders the planet a desolate wasteland incapable of supporting life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They stood on the bank, overlooking the tiny beanfield surrounded by desolate land, busted fences, rotting houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Had their families recognized them when they’d emerged from their desolate work? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z At the end, Colonel Gerineldo Márquez looked at the desolate streets, the crystal water on the almond trees, and he found himself lost in solitude. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then she went on: 'But that doesn't mean to say, of course, there aren't occasions now and then - extremely desolate occasions - when you think to yourself: "What a terrible mistake I've made with my life." The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z This woman now returned to her, more desolate; it was herself, not knowing where to put her foot; she waited, trembling, for the mists to be parted that she might walk in peace. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The desolate landscape was painted in blues and grays by the moon. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was not fear touching his heart, but the wordless sorrow of dry leaves rushing desolate before the wind. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Before them, the concentration camp at Auschwitz spread out, a desolate flat place surrounded by heavy chain-link fence, topped with coils of barbed wire. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She pivoted, shackles clanking, and took in the desolate waste that was Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I imagined that should I look out through the shuttered window, I would see the willows that stood at the back of that desolate estate. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On December 14, weary of paddling, he hauled the canoe far up the beach, climbed a sandstone bluff, and set up camp on the edge of a desolate plateau. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was once a time before life, when the Earth was barren and utterly desolate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But here the countryside is too desolate and dry to live off the land, and begging is too chancy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I looked upon a desolate shell, soulless at last, unhaunted, with no whisper of the past about its staring walls. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And then he wept, despairing, for his own land, trudging down beside the endless wash of the wide, wide sea, weary and desolate as the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a land of blue and pale gold that goes on, blending into soft lines at the sea—not like the green fields and forests of Germany, but not like the gray, desolate camps, either. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The haven now was sunk from sight and Lookfar’s painted eyes, wave-drenched, looked ahead on seas ever wider and more desolate. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Out of Pinky’s marginalized life, Restrepo conjures a lush but nevertheless desolate cinematic atmosphere. ‘Los Conductos’ Review: Lost Souls Above Medellín 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z He doesn't so much deliver as let fall the beautiful, desolating "how ill all's here about my heart". Hamlet; A Number; Enlightenment; Faust 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Probably the most desolate is in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Getting Creative With Small Hotel Rooms 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z In the course of a tour that took him through sturdy English towns, wild heaths and desolate coastal areas, he mused and brooded on the present and the past. Movie Review: ?Patience (After Sebald),? a Documentary 2012-05-08T22:32:23Z I see blue sky and a lot of desolate, empty space. Searching for the remote: Cabo Raso, Patagonia’s coastal ghost town 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It sounds desolate and cold, like camping on the moon. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z With a wall of jagged mirrors in the background reflecting the scene, there seem to be hundreds of desolate souls in the underworld. Music Review: Muti Directs ?Orfei ed Euridice? at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-02T21:59:00Z “Mirrored Sea” surges off a lonely, arctic synth line, matching the track’s desolate ethos, especially Angelakos’ warbled pleas of “And it was alone, and it was alone.” There's Nothing Light About Passion Pit's Gossamer 2012-07-23T18:09:47Z The author, with her husband, Mark, of three books about southern Africa, Owens here surveys the desolate marshlands of the North Carolina coast through the eyes of an abandoned child. From a Marsh to a Mountain, Crime Fiction Heads Outdoors 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z His desolate snarl of "there's nothing to believe in" reveals an emotional nihilism, and The Noose of Jah City finds him "suffocated in concrete". King Krule – review 2013-04-01T16:51:32Z The most desolate wasteland is the cultural void of North Korea as revealed in Mads Brugger’s ghastly/funny stunt documentary “The Red Chapel.” Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z He seems resigned to this isolation, aware that the alternative is to remain in the desolate, helplessness of the cycle of poverty that is plaguing others in the Aboriginal community. Mystery Road - Sydney film festival review 2013-06-06T00:54:00Z It might almost be described as an episode of "CSI" written by Chekhov and filmed on the desolate steppes of rural central Turkey, which takes two and a half hours to reach its ambiguous destination. Cannes: Malick's "Tree of Life" wins Palme d'Or 2011-05-22T21:45:00Z Now the space is back to looking desolate. In ‘Cane Fire,’ When an Image of Paradise Creates Loss 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z “The Colony,” on Discovery — now advertising for Season 3 volunteers, if you’re interested — sticks a group of ordinary folks in a desolate urban or suburban landscape. Critic?s Notebook: Gutting a Porcupine and Other Tips for the Apocalypse 2010-12-29T20:22:17Z The project on a tiny piece of desolate grazing land was completed in October 2005. Vandals target quirky artsy West Texas Prada Marfa 2011-03-25T13:01:04Z In That Sinking Feeling some unemployed teenagers in a desolate late 1970s Glasgow plan the robbery of a warehouse containing stainless steel sinks. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z “After a while, it was like, how dark and desolate and without hope can we make Sonny? And I said, ‘I’m not doing that again.’” Don Johnson Is Back as ‘Nash Bridges.’ Why? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare enough to draw crowds. No place like home: America’s eviction epidemic 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Even in the depths of the pandemic — even when the world locked down, leaving billions isolated and desolated — there were those who danced. After months in lockdown, a weary world is ready to dance 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z A gruff man sits at a grungy karaoke bar in the desolate Australian outback. REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z On a filmed safari back to this landscape, the normally loquacious, suddenly hushed Mau finds the family’s abandoned farmhouse on a desolate road that dead-ends in an endless forest headed toward the North Pole. Bruce Mau: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The author directly explores her uncomfortable history in the opening story, its mythology forming the framework for desolate pieces in tune with the heat and downbeat lives of the inhabitants of the Nevada desert. First fiction – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:03Z Maybe only there, in our desolate landscapes, is there room for our large and complicated selves. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Lee Child’s “The Truth About What Happened” is a jaunty yarn with an O. Henry-like twist, and Block himself chips in with a satisfying tale of a cunning big-city grift based on the desolate “Automat.” What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Benny returns to his desolate hometown after 20 years in the United States to find it in the grip of a murderous drug boss, falling in with El Cochiloco and his gang of hitmen. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z Let’s not forget concierge Iris, who wants to die because her son Donovan, desolate since being dumped by the Countess, wants nothing to do with her. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 3: Mother Issues 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But when the settlers arrived, they found swamps instead of gold and endless fields, and the people began dying off due to scarce resources in the desolate area. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z The characters are all as desolate as the land, and Bana cuts an imposing figure as he observes the townsfolk, deducing their secrets that could incriminate them. "The Dry" is a desolate, engrossing mystery in which everyone – even Eric Bona – is guilty 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z A miniature set of the town sits above the screens, but the striking cinematography of this desolate landscape, bracketed by the Rocky Mountains, keeps your focus. Critic?s Notebook: Going Under the Radar, and Into the Unknown 2011-01-11T23:53:39Z Buoyed by Christopher Plummer’s velvety narration, the movie follows a lone Alpine shepherd as he plants thousands of acorns, his industry finally rewarded by a forest that transforms his desolate surroundings. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z It was a desolate comedy with child labor.” Books of The Times: ‘The Forgiven,’ by Lawrence Osborne 2012-09-25T21:17:10Z Sometimes you run across a sight that’s bleak or poignant — a desolate alley or suffering person. Review | GALA’s ‘Dancing in My Cockroach Killers’ is gritty and lyrical 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Any desolate locale will do: cabin in the woods, empty motel, middle of the ocean, Detroit, just somewhere no one can hear you scream. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z They are what transportation engineers categorize as low-volume roads—roads otherwise described as desolate. Dirt-Road America 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The aim, says Brooks, is ‘to change the suburban street from a desolate place into a little working community’. Newhall, Harlow – review 2013-02-24T00:05:35Z Out of touch since high school, Calvin nevertheless cares for his helpless charge, bringing him fast food and giving him the run of his comfortable, desolate house. Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Each story in this collection is set in a different desolate corner of the earth: rural South Africa, the Australian backcountry, some lonely highway spanning the stretch between New York and Canada. New Short Fiction, Including a National Book Foundation Honoree 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Locals avoided this stripped-down, desolate corner of the city, preferring to spend time in the Petrzalka suburb across the river. Bratislava: Slovakia’s capital makes a remarkable comeback 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z “The Angelus,” named for a Catholic prayer, shows two more Hazmat-suited men weighing how to dispose of rusted chemical barrels on a desolate beach. September gallery highlights: From Antarctic ice to apocalyptic flames 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Insolent, fearful, desolate and touched with the antic brilliance of madness, this Fool becomes a jagged, glittering prism for the unhinged world of “King Lear.” | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z This novel is a dark beast of desolate nostalgia but imbued with Heller's trademark sardonic humour and a gnawing and worrying truth. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z If the overall feeling of “Everyday Robots” was a desolate one, Mr. Albarn said he liked to operate in a mode that was “dystopian yet hopeful.” Damon Albarn Is Releasing ‘Everyday Robots’ 2014-04-25T19:26:37Z The film's first image is of a man and his domestic beast of burden trundling across a desolate landscape in a howling windstorm. 'The Turin Horse': Facing the abyss in slow, black-and-white film 2012-04-19T20:22:06Z Bill Forsyth's film version, made in 1987, is an unswervingly faithful adaptation, preserving the narrative shape, the tone, the desolate backwoods atmosphere, even finding visual correlatives for Robinson's scriptural, luminous prose. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z Painted with watercolors that emphasize the vivid natural beauty of landscapes others might see as desolate, the book is about the tug between self-reliance and community. The Origin Story of the Depressingly Good “BoJack Horseman” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Greg and Rachel are white and middle-class and live in neighborhoods and houses depicted as inviting; Earl is black and poor, and lives in a desolate, quasi-industrial neighborhood in a seemingly dilapidated house. What’s Missing from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It is the only inhabited town within 100km; I see blue sky and a lot of desolate, empty space. Searching for the remote: Cabo Raso, Patagonia’s coastal ghost town 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z One of the best stories, “Good Monks,” makes use of a local landmark: an abandoned lime pit — desolate, lurid, ruined — known as the “Lost Planet.” Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z I stood paralyzed with fear on an empty curb at a desolate time in a foreign city trying to get a taxi and praying I made it to my hotel safely. Please tell me about your delayed flight 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Foggy and desolate, but so beautiful, the moorland was like nothing either of us had seen before. Going to great lengths: Cycling Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groats 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The desolate landscape of industrial sprawl in the fictional city of Vinci, just outside Los Angeles, is much bleaker than the fields and swamps of rural Louisiana. Review: ‘True Detective,’ Season 2 on HBO, Plays a Symphony of Misery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Wispy clouds hovered over random giant boulders and small hills that punctuated the eerie landscape, so desolate and untamed. We walked half of Scotland’s West Highland Way to fulfill an old hiking dream 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Edison’s visits to desolate demimondes and Max’s virtual existence bear the clear influence of cyberpunk. Max Headroom, Original Talking Head, on DVD 2010-08-07T02:20:00Z The sere, desolate chaos of military maneuvers is well conveyed, as is the confusion of Cherry’s character. ‘Cherry’ Review: A Very Different Tangled Web for Tom Holland 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Visiting these desolate stretches of the country can be as exciting as scaling a mountain. Exploring Modern Ruins in Southern California 2014-03-19T21:24:02Z The showcase gathered 10 acts, nearly all of them laptop-equipped lone DJs, in an apt environment: subterranean and desolate yet high tech. An Apt Basement Celebration of Tri Angle Records 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z It was obscure not because it was theatrically desolate and raw, but because it was the opposite of that. Footsteps: Poetry Made Me Do It: My Trip to the Hebrides 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z A storm is gathering over the desolate stretch of land where humans look puny in the lurid light that brings out of darkness a crumbling square tower. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z Fig Newtons and “King Lear,” bitter lemon as well for Othello, that desolate conspicuous soul. Review: In Rita Dove’s Verse, Tangy Words to Savor 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z But this is more than just a wonder at vastness or the desolate beauty of space – it's a wonder at how everything makes sense, how everything is connected. Casualty and Wonders of the Solar System | TV Review 2010-03-29T05:45:00Z Parts of Newark are breathtakingly desolate—vast empty lots filled with brush, garbage, and homeless camps. Photographing Newark 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, the desolate streets of SoHo were home to many brands of weirdness. A Judd Celebration of Trisha Brown Dance 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The crack epidemic took its toll, making the desolate streets of the industrial areas more dangerous by day and night. Downtown L.A.'s hot art scene? It was just as happening in the '70s 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z He called the movie’s digitally desolate New York “downright uncanny.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Broad City’ and ‘I Feel Pretty’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Long a connoisseur of abandoned houses and mysteriously desolate landscapes, Mr. Riggs said he was drawn to odd or disturbing photos that suggested lost back stories. Ransom Riggs Is Inspired by Vintage Snapshots 2013-12-30T22:52:09Z There was more to see in this desolate, weird landscape. Journey to an Ethiopian volcano located in one of the hottest places on Earth 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s a richly textured, savage movie, spare and desolate. To appreciate the ‘Masterworks’ of Paul Thomas Anderson, here are 5 essential movies of his to watch 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z They stood behind velvet rope, penned off — shoulder-to-shoulder and armpit-to-face — in an otherwise desolate hallway in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The hearing that shut up Washington. And then . . . 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z She glares back at the now desolate Theranos building, still screaming. What comes after "The Dropout" ending: What Elizabeth Holmes, Erika Cheung and others are doing now 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z That voice is airborne and supple, tenderly concerned, playful and percussive; then it grows increasingly tense, distraught, desolate, embittered. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z A "creeping tide" of harm moves through these stories, "flooding in" as they reach their desolate conclusions. The Pre-War House and Other Stories by Alison Moore – review 2013-05-17T13:01:01Z Right in the centre Beatties, the department store which was once the pride of the town, is also shuttered and desolate, its lifeblood drained by the out of town Merry Hill shopping centre. One in 10 English churches needs urgent repairs 2010-06-30T14:05:00Z When Juliette is cast out by Bernard in the finale, she sees the ugly truth: The outside is, in fact, desolate and poisonous. ‘Silo’ Creator on the Show’s ‘Cautionary Tale’ About Tech 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z He lived with Mr. Fisk north of the academy in a desolate, industrial area, where he would watch bodies being carried into the city morgue from a window. Museum Show for David Lynch, Who Began as a Visual Artist 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z At first, Ms. Satpathy said, she felt desolate: “I experienced this shocking sense of loss of my hold on dance.” A Great Odissi Dancer Conjures Gods and Demons Alone 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z In the biological process called “succession,” a desolate, disturbed area is gradually, by a predictable sequence of returning plants, restored to ecological continuity and durability. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z This allows for an unusually generous open hall and staircase, as well as a dedicated ground-floor home office – attempting to change the suburban street from a desolate place into a little working community of "shopfronts". Stirling prize 2013: shock of the new as five first-time nominees shortlisted 2013-07-17T23:01:00Z Low Winter Sun, which premieres after Breaking Bad, is also a story of grim men doing bad deeds in a quasi-allegorical, desolate landscape. TV Weekend: Low Winter Sun and Detroit as Urban Desert 2013-08-09T13:55:05Z The temples were stunning, clusters of oval rooms built from giant slabs of cut yellow limestone and set on a desolate bluff overlooking the water. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z More traditional photographs depict sites of mines with desolate beauty. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Lucy Osborne's design, with its gravelly surface and trash-bins, also adds to the desolate atmosphere. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z With its obvious, though never heavy-handed metaphors, about gardens and soil, Another Year moves the viewer through warmth and humour until a desperate and desolate sadness creeps in. Cannes: tales of misery, money markets and Maid Marian 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z Her parents, Emilio and Magdalena Fernández, began cooking paella on the cliffs in the 1970s, she told me, and steadily built the business despite the desolate site. In Spain, finding peace — and paella — on Mallorca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The contours of this desolate future are lightly sketched rather than fully explained, which is always a good choice. ‘The Rover,’ a Drama With Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z He undertakes a thrilling, harrowing journey, driving in a blizzard on dubious roads through locked-down villages and desolate farmsteads. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z “Cancer 4 Cure” is not the after-party of hip-hop fantasy, but a desolate afterworld populated by killers and thieves. Album review: El-P, 'Cancer 4 Cure' 2012-05-21T01:44:00Z Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia and once a nearly desolate ghost town, is one of the big surprises of my recent travels. Bratislava: Slovakia’s capital makes a remarkable comeback 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z “That was a desperate, desolate moment, but she turned it into something profoundly beautiful, this whole cocktail of being human.” Joan Shelley’s New Songs Soothe Old Wounds 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z I’m here in Chicago, 7,000 miles and 15 years away from Jalalabad, a desolate town in southwestern Afghanistan. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Standing there on that desolate bluff, all alone with these ruins, I marveled at how all of this was accomplished without the use of metal tools. Scotland’s Orkney Islands: remote rewards far from the maddening crowds 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z You can understand the appeal of the most desolate reaches of far west Texas to an artist whose need for room had multiplied. The Out of Towner: Where Lone Stars Don?t Feel So Alone 2011-06-23T22:25:49Z Turbulence marked the outer movements, particularly in a finale that offered little consolation, while the second and third held their shape, sinuous and desolate. Review: Brahms at the Boston Smphony, With Hélène Grimaud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Compared with his debut album, “High Top Mountain,” from last year, which was lonely and desolate, too, this one feels even more skeptical, and is richer musically with only a few extra brush strokes. Sturgill Simpson’s ‘Metamodern Sounds in Country Music’ 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Amos stands on a white, desolate world, jagged ice all around her. "Never was a cornflake girl": Why a 1994 album by Tori Amos belongs in "Yellowjackets" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Like most of these pieces, it takes place in Sofia, a once glorious capital now filled with desolate Soviet-style apartment blocks. Review | In ‘Cleanness,’ Garth Greenwell explores the mysteries of love and pleasure 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The big top set up in a desolate field outside Mumbai seats 3,000 people. Indian circuses struggle to adapt after court bans 2013-05-17T06:56:08Z In “Hear My Call,” accompanied by sparse piano chords and string arrangements, she prays for healing in a desolate, breathy voice. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z “A desolate, empty parking lot is always a good place to dump a big body,” he said. TikToker Lands the Role of a Lifetime: Playing Dead on TV 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Leon Panetta, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, recounts an agency manhunt for the planners of a 2009 suicide bombing at a desolate base in southeastern Afghanistan that killed seven of its employees. Review: In ‘The Spymasters,’ C.I.A. Leaders Recount Tactics of the Post-9/11 Years 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Wearing a T-shirt and jeans, his hair flopping prettily, Arash is posed in a desolate vista that brings to mind “Giant.” ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’: a vampire and company 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The spots chosen by Rickard are in the economically ravaged fringes of cities: the waste lands and desolate roads that form the constant backwash of America's broken promise. How Google Street View is inspiring new photography 2012-07-14T18:36:10Z The first sign was that anyone could be so happy to approach the Javits Center, a vast, uncongenial structure crouching on the most desolate stretch of Manhattan’s far West Side. Inside the passionate “girl-topia” of BookCon: Where authors are rock stars and geek-chic girls rule 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z In the film a 15-year-old girl growing up near the desolate Salton Sea follows three street kids to Los Angeles, to disastrous ends. This Year, Sundance Will Savor Its Homegrown Projects 2011-01-18T23:19:16Z In the remaining pictures, Spice looks increasingly desolate and withdrawn. A Tale of Two Female Outcasts in the American Southwest 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Yet that’s what beaches once were: wild, desolate places where the ocean fought the land to a vicious draw. Explorer: Hiking Washington State’s Rocky Olympic Coast 2012-07-13T16:31:29Z Five friends camping in Texas have their vacation derailed by an accident on a dark, desolate country road. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Many of the arrangements are eerie and astringent, and the mood, even in love songs, is desolate. Peter Gabriel Says, ?I?ll Sing Yours, You Sing Mine? 2010-03-01T22:48:00Z “Death Spiral” and “Winner Take Nothing” are dissected, unstable R&B ballads that chart the affair’s collapse and desolate aftermath. Dirty Projectors Confronts a Breakup, Emerging With a New Sound 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Fowler has always been fascinated with "real fear" and his stories are littered with desolate tower-blocks, haunted council estates and nasty surprises in the fried chicken. Campaign for Real Fear aims to shock the horror fiction world 2010-03-31T08:05:00Z Some highlights in the shapely score: the opening ensemble lament in a desolate union hall, "Scrap." Review: 'The Full Monty' at Village Theatre turns hard times into fun 2010-09-23T20:35:00Z Raphaël enters shortly afterward, a lonely uniformed figure limping across a dark, desolate French field. ‘Scarlet’ Review: A Father and Daughter Endure 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Increasingly desolate, he leaned heavily on his second wife for emotional support. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z White's monumental, bayonet-wielding infantryman stands alone on a desolate plain looking skyward. Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z But, in this desolate landscape of lost souls, she can’t stifle her true nature. Isabelle Huppert and Her Daughter Meet on Screen at Cannes 2010-05-18T11:48:00Z In the charming documentary Babies, French filmmaker Thomas Balmes presents us with a quartet of babies, infants freshly birthed in urban settings in Japan and America, as well as sun-baked Namibia and desolate Mongolia. Babies Review: The Awwww Heard 'Round the World 2010-05-06T23:30:00Z I could no longer look on in silence, and I told her about the desolate state of teaching in the German department and the psychic pressure students were forced to endure. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z And I get quite bored with people bemoaning the fact that their high street is desolate. The return of radical bookshops 2010-04-12T08:34:00Z They don’t yet know her fate, whether she is alive or dead; they are desolate. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z Both the professor and his girlfriend are outsiders, with desolate homeland prospects thanks to a widespread economic and environmental Crash, upping the stakes of the investigation considerably for themselves and their unborn child. October must-reads: "Call Me by Your Name" sequel to memoirs galore 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z It was in this desolate state that we projected on to each other our sense of a life having ended without our consent, and with no picture of another that would satisfactorily replace it. From empty nest to full house: three generations under one roof 2012-06-08T22:00:57Z A desolate ambience is established by David Ogle’s set, encompassing the entire room. In ‘Deepest Man,’ an Immersion Into a Watery Beyond 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Whenever I'm on a road trip, it's like a desolate road or in the middle of nowhere, vintage country just sounds better there. Kurt Vile breaks down his “mixtape” solo album, from acid house to “the K-hole of country m... 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z After unpacking, I sat on the veranda for a privileged view of the sun setting across the desolate steppes. Fauna, Flora and Freighters in the Danube Delta 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Have you ever paused to consider the spiritual and physical affinities between the desolate universe of Samuel Beckett and the wacky world of vintage Warner Brothers cartoons? Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The painting depicts a desolate, dark green clapboard house with a 'For Sale' sign beside it, reflecting the melancholy of the time. Hopper work sells for record $40m 2013-12-06T11:34:57Z Mr. Horvath shadows two diggers in Dawson City, a desolate, ramshackle town that was home to the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, chronicled by the writer Jack London. Review: ‘Earth’s Golden Playground,’ a Documentary on Prospecting in the Yukon 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z At the time these works were made, Mr. Nares hadn’t yet developed his signature single-brush-stroke paintings, but he was honing his intensely physical formula by swinging giant pendulums through desolate alleys. Art In Review: JAMES NARES: ?1976: Movies, Photographs and Related Works on Paper? 2012-01-26T23:25:11Z Alone in a desolate plantation house, Jacobina, a sub-lieutenant in the National Guard, finds his reflection growing dimmer and less distinct. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z Dark thick forest alternated with bucolic sun-dappled farmland and bare, desolate mountains overlooking quaint lakeside towns. Where the Journey is the Destination 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z But Conlon's conducting also was alive to the desolate tragedy, the tender lyricism, the flashes of grotesque humor and circusy burlesque. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z The Hawkins brothers have an envelopingly moody visual style that strives for offbeat touches, at times easily conjuring the existential threat in desolate areas. Heist flick 'Bad Turn Worse' runs out of juice 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It follows a prophet-like figure who returns to a rundown village, but it’s all about the spell that the crisply desolate images exert. Neverending stories: five of the best very long films 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s a remarkable turnaround from the desolate spot the property had become after the Sears center shuttered in 1993. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Kline imagines the inner life of the woman with polio crawling across a desolate field in Andrew Wyeth’s iconic painting, “Christina’s World.” Paperback Row 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Filling eight city blocks, with 25 residential high-rises and mixed-use buildings, the $1.1 billion pop-up neighborhood was built on a desolate stretch of industrial land along the city’s waterfront. Heads Up: An Olympic Village in Vancouver Is Reborn 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z Nothing, however, can quite compete with Lange — the intricate cigarette-smoking behavior, the shaky inhales, the surges of anger, the desolate collapses. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 6 Recap: Midnight Descending 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z But it’s telling that the places Aussie writers are inventing are often so geographically vague — so generically featureless, so uniformly desolate — they could be plonked almost anywhere on the national map. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z As the actors take up their places, a desolating video begins to play. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z Glints of that lost world haunt the poetry Schubert set in the shimmering of the moon on desolate nights, the beauty of sun-filled landscapes, or the specters of dead girls and other Gothic phantasms. CD reviews: A modern symphonic master 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z I used to go running every day, because otherwise you start feeling slightly desolate that you're in America, thinking, 'Why aren't I at home? Fiona Shaw: 'I'm not frightened of hard words' 2012-07-17T18:01:00Z You can only hope to move through vast canyons and experience their wonder, because even when they are desolate, there is a beauty in their breathing. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Here, robust, jutting Hungarian folk rhythms are spun together with desolate, unyielding melody. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z Familiar or far-flung, crowded or serene, developed or desolate — anywhere works as long as I can envision spreading a towel on the sand and soaking up the sun. Miss the sea? These documentaries about the ocean go beneath the surface. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But everything in the Senate’s surreal and desolate visual presentation only underlined that we are light-years away from normal. Fauci Hearing: Who Were Those Masked (and Unmasked) Senators? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The film is set in Russia’s desolate north. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z There are horseback riders silhouetted against retina-singeing vistas, desolate outposts appearing like sunbaked hallucinations, and low-angle shots that magnify people into mythic figures. In ‘The English,’ Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer Saddle Up 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z I stood paralyzed with fear on an empty curb at a desolate time in a foreign city trying to get a taxi and praying I made it to my hotel safely. Please tell me about your delayed flight 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z His back is covered in scars and tattoos, his desolate room is littered with empty bottles of whiskey, his hair is perfectly tousled even though he barely takes care of himself. Preacher recap: season one, episode one – Pilot 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Travel to some desolate planetary outposts, observe some opponents and either attack their position or defend yours. Game On: 'Prejudice' delivers value 2011-05-10T18:02:05Z The film’s first image is an extended, deep-focus tracking shot of a man and his domestic beast of burden trundling across a desolate landscape in a howling windstorm. Movie Review: Bela Tarr?s Final Film, ?The Turin Horse? 2012-02-09T22:58:40Z Shot in an atmospherically desolate pocket of the Mojave Desert in Southern California, the movie opens with a question mark: a car driving into some chairs on a road. | 'Rubber': The Tread Life on This Tire Is Something Else 2011-03-31T22:24:37Z It is dotted with sparse ranches and miles of empty, desolate fields. Rural resort draws visitors by offering exotic, lap-of-luxury experience 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Degas is more desolate in his painting of a woman in a cafe contemplating a glass of absinthe. Oiled on canvas: the art of intoxication 2012-12-31T12:05:44Z This ersatz father-son combo heads out on the open road in a fortified muscle car, across a desolate but pretty much recognizable American landscape that's probably Mickle's greatest creation. Pick of the week: Indie vampire saga "Stake Land" 2011-04-22T01:01:00Z She says this idea still echoes, citing the 1991 gulf war, when the news media focused on aerial and satellite images of desolate reaches of sand. Art Review: Mideast Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-12-26T22:22:28Z In the video, Mr. Longstreth is pictured alone, in landscapes both lush and desolate, the picture of isolation. The Playlist: Ed Sheeran Returns With a Foot in the Past and an Eye on the Future 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z For the famous scene in which a crop-duster strafes Cary Grant on a desolate road, Mr. Boyle combined location footage with a toy airplane and toy truck on a miniature field created in the studio. Robert F. Boyle, Film Designer for Hitchcock, Dies 2010-08-03T19:00:00Z It’s easy to imagine dinosaurs roaming this desolate land millions of years ago – it looks like a deserted Flintstones set. Wining and dinosauring in San Juan, Argentina 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Jaunty rhythms are layered into a feisty canvas in “Bold and Defiant,” and slow, murky musings lend a desolate air to “Suppressed.” Classical Recordings: Sebastian Currier: Piano Sonata, Other Works ? CD Review 2011-12-22T15:26:52Z He “liked the idea of these old, desolate walls surviving the lives of their human inhabitants,” she said. A Schiele Townscape in Decline Will be Restored With TEFAF Funds 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z As before, an unmarked steel door is set back from the sidewalk on a desolate stretch of Eldridge Street. Boîte: Attaboy in the Lower East Side 2013-07-10T21:38:11Z Portman’s desolate face fills the cramped frame; her world has literally shrunk. Good grief: cinema’s new mood of despair 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s a work of both desolate sadness and desperate tedium for violin and cello, just barely breathed into life, in almost total darkness, by Tarn Travers and Chris Wild. Review: Ensemble Dal Niente Brings Its Intense Whimsy to the DiMenna Center 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Marvel at the desolate expanse of the Dune Sea! Commission us: the most homely fictional worlds 2010-10-12T11:22:00Z And maybe that is truly the most important task of art, to make something that catches our eye and captures our imaginations among all that is desolate, drab and indeed terrestrial-brown around us. The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z With its desolate vistas, freaky villains, spike-adorned cars, massive sandstorms and extensive explosions, it's a bit boggling to think this is from the same guy who directed "Babe: Pig in the City" and "Happy Feet." 'Mad Max: Fury Road' trailer is an eye-popping peek at the apocalypse 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In this crackling World War I novel, a young medical student is dispatched to a desolate hamlet on the Eastern Front, where he teams with a rifle-wielding nun to treat soldiers. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z And so it remains in storage, locked away in a desolate place. Our lock-and-leave culture: the rise of self-storage and clinging to stuff we hardly use 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The scene we’d imagined, with colonies of flamingoes strutting around a topaz shore, was instead a dust bowl, friable and desolate. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z In the future, a corporation housed in a huge complex in the sky looks down upon a desolate world that is home to a penal colony. Review: ‘The Osiris Child’ Has It All, and Then Some 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z I can move slowly across a desolate beach in Vancouver with my camera, and stop at an abandoned lean-to made of driftwood. Essay: Through a Lens Sharply 2014-04-09T18:16:12Z Suddenly her DJ drops a stark beat that recalls dirty water dripping somewhere desolate. Mykki Blanco – review 2013-02-03T00:07:03Z “How desolate and grand! The far-away, lonely and terrible places of the earth were the most beautiful and elevating.” The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Then, at around 1 p.m., he rides two subways to a desolate block in Ridgewood, Queens, to spend afternoons at his garage-turned-shop. Book Agent in the Morning, Carpenter in the Afternoon 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The narrative intermittently returns to the wounding past — to the Price marriage and Malcolm’s desolate childhood — while in the present it becomes clear Frances has her own exit plan, as her oldest friend suspects. Review | ‘French Exit’ gives a witty look at a rarefied world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Ribot was playing music from “Silent Movies,” his winningly desolate more-or-less solo guitar album that was released by Pi last fall. Music Review: A Solitary Stroll Gives Way to a Full-Band Excursion 2011-01-06T23:00:03Z Like the Durrenmatt play, this adaptation — set in a desolate European town called Brachen in the aftermath of a great war — is on one level a harsh parable of inhumanity and avarice. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “Somewhere in Your Heart” takes the shape of a heat-warped desert crawl; “Sometimes at Night” suggests a desolate country waltz. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-07T23:20:47Z There’s one more cover, which closes the album: “Don’t Take My Kindness for Weakness” by the Soul Children, slowed to a desolate crawl. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z The mood of despair peaks on Are We Really Through, a lonely lament worthy of Hank Williams at his most desolate. Ray LaMontagne 2010-09-30T21:15:00Z It’s a seamless composite, transforming disparate images into a plausible landscape featuring a shack and a crumbling pier in a desolate arid setting. Photography is the star of the show at Henry Art Gallery exhibition 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z It's there in the desolate emptiness of the Portisheadish Hold Back the Night, and in the distortion that makes a harmonica sound like a sitar on These Days are Mine. I Am Kloot: Let It All In – review 2013-01-17T22:05:01Z The images convey a reverence for desolate, panoramic landscapes—human occupants, when they appear at all, are, like Harry Dean Stanton in the roving opening shots of “Paris, Texas,” dwarfed by wide expanses of scenery. Wim Wenders’s Open Road 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Despite a tendency to drift formlessly, there's true beauty in some of their desolate soundscapes, which get eerier as the album crawls along. Esben and the Witch: Violet Cries - review 2011-01-27T22:40:00Z The vast desolate beauty of Erzincan province's snow-covered landscapes seems to muffle the emotions characters struggle to express. Modern take on Abraham's sacrifice dissects Turkish village life 2014-02-13T10:50:21Z For his latest solo show, “Jardins Secrets,” at Axelle Fine Arts in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, he presents a selection of surreal scenes set in lush, burgeoning nature and desolate blue-gray moonscapes. Immerse Yourself in Eric Roux-Fontaine’s Surreal Landscapes 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z By the time the vampire in the chador is skateboarding down a dark, desolate street, director Ana Lily Amirpour has ensured that “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” will roll on in your memory. ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’: a vampire and company 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z In trying to outmaneuver their mortality and reconnect with one another, Orpheus, Eurydice and Eurydice’s father each arrive at an oblivion more desolate and lonely than what they’d known before. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z A wide shot captures the desolate locale they've chosen to complete the act, a place devoid of witnesses, color or any sign of joy. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z “He’s put the fun into working out and the community back into the lives of people. He’s made a great big alienated, desolate world feel very small, and all you need is your phone.” Is This the Breakout Star of Virtual Fitness? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Paul Nash is best-known for his paintings of the desolate landscape of first world war no man's land. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z How to fill the evenings in these desolate times? What I'm really watching: golden age Hollywood comedies 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The salt formations faded into the distance, as did the desolate brown beaches beyond them. The Otherworldly Beauty of a Dying Sea 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z This also exposes Bill's survivalist front as a camouflage hiding a desolate cavern Frank leaps into. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z It is a punishing, desolate space determined not by physical distance from the capital but by isolation from all the healthy parts and spoils of the globalized economy. When White Working-Class Fury Came of Age 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Sometimes you’ll almost discern the contour of a landscape or the dark shading of a limb, but ultimately the shapes all drift back into a desolate, spacious abstraction. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z When he returned to a desolate New York in May, he asked if she’d find him a temporary spot in Woodstock, N.Y., which she had retreated to after recovering sufficiently from her illness. An Adventure in the Conventional 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Against this desolate but beautiful backdrop, we meet two lonely road-maintenance workers spending the summer of 1988 painting yellow divider lines. Sundance film festival 2013: Prince Avalanche – first look review 2013-01-24T16:55:49Z Radiohead was in unimpeachable form — ominous, frenetic, mathematical, enraged, edgy, meticulous, desolate, funky — on Bonnaroo’s giant main stage, through a sound system with the clarity and punch of good headphones. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z The play presents six characters trapped in a Catholic chapel on a desolate Indian reservation. Review: 'Angels Fall' cast wages emotional war, with truth as the prize 2010-06-08T22:38:00Z He wrote that the Puritans arrived in “a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men.” Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z When I first hiked up to the ruins, it was overgrown with trees and entirely desolate. A tale of two delightful castles, in Germany and Austria 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Over the course of three sweaty days, we traversed a marshy basin, climbed to a gap where gale-force winds nearly knocked us over, and passed through a misty, desolate zone dotted with green salt pools. The Hidden Route to Machu Picchu 2011-06-24T19:06:22Z That environment is, of course, the somewhat desolate, dangerous Lower East Side of the late ’70s. Review: ‘Boom for Real’ Is a Beguiling Look at a Teenage Basquiat 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The desolate stretch of territory alongside the South Branch of the Chicago River is littered with the shed husks of the city’s industrial past. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z His wife in hospice, he’s another desolate soul. Newly Released Books 2011-08-17T22:44:30Z Yet, however autumnal, these desolate trees are quickly drained of whatever emotional reference a landscape picture might carry. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z For “Donation Box,” he’s filled half a storefront in a down-on-its-heels mini-mall at the edge of town with a deep layer of sand, piled into a desolate landscape of gently rolling dunes. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Shore, 35, said he is “intrigued” by desolate retail spaces, which includes malls but also big box stores like Kmart. Auctioning Off a Dead Mall 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The movie relocates the elemental animosities of the old Hollywood Western to the desolate Australian outback — a scorched purgatory for lost men. REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Her cries have the same desolate quality as Agnes’s in Cries and Whispers – Bergman has the same need to amplify and complicate the proclamation of sex. Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Few compare with Golden Boten City, a project that promised a beehive of economic activity in northern Laos by the Chinese border, but today sits lonely and desolate. Bungle In The Jungle 2011-07-27T22:00:00Z Her new book focuses on two teenage sisters, July and September, who arrive with their mother at a desolate house on the eastern coast of England after leaving school for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z I don’t want Smith to be buried in this flat, desolate graveyard. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z A plate image in the book shows a desolate empty location, and he laments the mutilated statues on the road from the village of Selçuk. Summer readings: In the Steps of St Paul by HV Morton 2011-08-18T11:41:01Z Eventually, like his language, James disappears from view, leaving us to look at a desolate and empty stage. Somersaults ? review 2011-03-22T18:55:00Z An abandoned multistory structure of indeterminate purpose looms over the entire desolate scene. Next Stop: Swedish Island of Gotland, a Spot for Respite or Revelry 2010-07-24T04:45:00Z Although winter means cold temperatures in most parts of the country, desolate green spaces, and mugs of hot chocolate and hot toddies, there is an upside: It's pomegranate season! How to store pomegranate seeds during peak season 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Some led to desolate beaches like Sombrio Beach, strewn with driftwood and coffee-colored ribbons of kelp, as shiny as glass in the sun. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z It goes beyond documentary, drawing on a visionary stage vocabulary and creating individual stories that are both desolating and stirring. The Accrington Pals; Di and Viv and Rose; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show – review 2013-01-27T00:06:22Z The scene begins in a large, abandoned theater and moves to a few desolate locations. ‘Lost River’ (With Movie Trailer): Ryan Gosling Narrates a Scene 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z In Anna Karenina, the desolate Kitty knows that Vronsky has fallen for Anna when she sees the two of them dancing together at a ball. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z Alluding to Korea’s 1945 partition, the desolate DMZ’s unusual natural habitat and its 24-hour monitoring, it is a characteristically intricate Yang production. Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z A black man is shown to be correct in his unease in walking around a desolate white neighborhood. A horror movie for our time: “Get Out” is frighteningly topical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z But on this night he was deeply affecting as Wagner’s clueless youth, who chances upon the sanctuary of the desolate knights of the Holy Grail and is baffled by their sacred rituals. Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z “Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare,” Matthew Desmond writes. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z In a metaphorical land not far from reality, a beautiful palace rises from a desolate plain of want and envy. Art Review: Learning About the Marketplace and Entering It 2011-08-11T21:32:30Z The images, elegant, bleak and harrowing, place her in a desolate landscape devastated by the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Eiko, Without Koma, Creates in Philadelphia and Fukushima 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Now that you realize you’re in a foreign country in a desolate location, what do you do? ArtsBeat: What Scares Oren Peli? 2012-05-25T19:16:26Z The shell-shocked monologues that follow are a little mannered, but these fragments form a mosaic of loss that ranges from desolate sorrow to survivalist brutality. | 'The Argument': In City of Loss the Dead Shall Dance 2011-03-09T22:00:45Z My wife and I walked our dog, Uncle Mort, down a desolate street. For the healthy, safe and secure, the coronavirus shutdown is also an opportunity to let go 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z My eyes swept over a desolate landscape of dirt patches punctuated by green lumps. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z He is an executioner in Oldham, England, a desolate town near Manchester, in and around the day in 1965 when the death penalty for murder was banned in Britain. Martin McDonagh’s ‘Hangmen,’ a Mordant Stage Homecoming in London 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Sakamoto opened his concert with music from “Out of Noise,” the desolate electro-acoustic rumble of “Glacier” emanating from loudspeakers even before he took the stage. Music Review: Sylvan Sounds, Meant to Be Seen 2010-10-19T22:05:00Z This year marks the 200th anniversary of the emperor’s final defeat at Waterloo, “that desolate plain,” as Victor Hugo called it in a famous poem. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Wild farcical action is overlaid with some of the most desolate lines imaginable. Week in theatre 2010-12-12T00:05:00Z Enticed to this “desolate slough,” he and his family rot and go mad. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z It's got everything in it: It's tragic, sometimes wild and fast, other times slow and desolate. Teen violinist Mari? Rossano to solo on Shostakovich with Seattle Phil 2011-04-07T19:29:04Z You can feel oddly desolate after being public in that way. This Week in Fiction: Zadie Smith on Inhabiting the World of Billie Holiday 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z When you first meet him, Diego is waiting for a transfer from a desolate outpost. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z We emerged into the blinding brightness of a vast mountain valley desolate save for our train’s lonely track as it descended onto Lake Baikal’s northern shore. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z While members of the Kidnapping Club stalked Black men and women as they walked alone along the desolate wharves, Ruggles stalked them in return. When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Black Rock Desert, a flat stretch of about 1,000 square miles, is so desolate it’s used to launch rockets. Q&A: Don’t Miss the Tiki Bar at Burning Man 2012-08-03T16:44:37Z He favors foreboding minor chords and orchestral depths, a backdrop that brings out the most desolate sentiments of his collaborators. ‘Wakanda Forever’ Forges International Alliances on a Somber Soundtrack 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z There was an emotional distance in Shostakovich’s desolate masterpiece of the Eighth Quartet. The Minetti Quartet is enjoyable but not striking at Austrian Embassy 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z As Clean tools through desolate semi-urban streets in the dead of winter, stopping at the junkyard to feed a wiry dog, it’s clear that right now bliss isn’t part of the man’s program. ‘Clean’ Review: Taking Out the Trash 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Printed in a rich array of blacks and grays fading into dusty white, the desolate image seems sooty. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z It depicts a wide expanse of desolate, frozen lake. Antonia Wright pulls a disappearing act at Luis De Jesus 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Honigmann is good on loneliness, whether showing desolate cityscapes as they float by or watching the musicians during their stay in Buenos Aires. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z These works contain their own multitudes: gorgeous desolate landscapes, a sign of ecological end times. Sterling Ruby Pipes Down, a Bit 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The finished song is desolate but resilient, a hell of a plaint. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z What did the media write and talk about in those desolate winter weeks between the end of the regular season and the Ultimate Game? Dumber than Fox News: Super Bowl hype is brain-dead sports media at its worst 2014-01-31T19:51:00Z The album’s quietly desolate centerpiece is “Summer’s End.” John Prine Returns to Songwriting, Jaunty and Dark, on ‘The Tree of Forgiveness’ 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z In other words, the recognizable existence of a desolate kid. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z In this “desolate, grim beauty,” Roosevelt found solitude and built a cattle ranch. Oil drilling threatens solitude of national park 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z On a desolate country road shrouded in fog and bordered by bare trees, sounds of the wind and lonely music drift on the soundtrack as spindly branches reach across the frame like fingers. ‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Two Glorious Sides of Tilda Swinton 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Haussmann’s boulevards, where vehicles once cut through Paris with speed and ferocity, were suddenly desolate. In a gray, empty Paris, this corner shop’s colorful posters transport you wherever you want to go 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z West of the chapel, in an otherwise desolate neighborhood where tumbleweeds would find ample room to roll down roads, sits a funky drinking establishment called ReBar. Las Vegas After the Shooting: Renewing Vows, Embracing Community 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z When Godspeed performed this music live, it was against a backdrop of scratchy films of desolate wastelands, or electricity pylons looming against grey skies, interspersed with a single word, HOPE, beaming in the darkness. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z Pulling the camera from the pocket of his leather jacket, he showed off a snapshot of an enormous warehouse standing in isolation on a desolate block in Bushwick. The Gimlet Eye: Heeding a Call to Cross the River 2010-10-20T20:07:00Z The desolate American years of Heinrich and his wife, Nelly, form just one of the many fascinating but often distressing side stories told in “The Sun and Her Stars.” Review | Turning a spotlight on the Hollywood doyenne who gave refuge to artists fleeing Hitler 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Valka Lager, Nuremberg, West Germany, 1950 A desolate image that captures the trauma of a Europe still struggling to recover from war. A history of Europe in pictures: 1900-1945 2011-03-15T13:15:00Z At times, the film feels oppressively claustrophobic, as walruses surround the marine biologist's small cabin; at other times, it feels empty and desolate, with the wintry Arctic landscape shutting us off from the outside world. Salon's totally (possibly) infallible Oscar predictions: Who will win? And who should win? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The facility, based in an otherwise desolate office park in Tampa, resembles a collaboration between Marriott International Inc. and the people who brought you “Black Mirror.” “Homecoming,” Reviewed: Julia Roberts in the Heavy Weather of a Late-Capitalist Dystopia 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The first plateau was dewy with tropical greenery and plants; another was dusty and desolate. In Guatemala, a treacherous hike to one of the world’s most active volcanoes 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Yet for all the losses and sorrows Pamuk's characters endure, "A Strangeness in My Mind" is poignant rather than desolate, in keeping with the indefatigable spirit of its flawed but lovable hero. 'Strangeness in My Mind' explores Istanbul with the eyes of an amiable Everyman 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z But hell would be a good name for the rock-strewn, dusty, desolate road that brought us there. Personal Journeys: In Guatemala, a Torturous Drive to a Remote Eden 2012-09-14T16:37:56Z But here it is, a bright and modern little hangout with room for about 50, loudly pumping funk music on a desolate stretch in Silver Spring. Could a new wave of boutique coffee, beer and bao buns remake ‘Silver Sprung’? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Yet nothing turns out as expected in this tense, beautifully acted movie, which is set against the stark, desolate beauty of Sicily in and around Palermo. Critic’s Notebook: New Directors/New Films Highlights Include ‘Fish & Cat’ 2014-03-24T22:13:52Z Now it’s the sight of desolate men’s faces that made me want to look away: stunned by the realization that their lives are coming to an end. ‘T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Is the scorched and desolate city post-9/11 New York, or a vision of an even more profound doom? A Heroine Who Lives at Once in Elizabethan England and 21st-Century New York 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Instead they stretched Baker’s songs into gorgeously desolate epics that echoed through an outdoor amphitheater at the premiere at the Ojai Festival in California in June. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Stravinsky used elements from multiple Tchaikovsky scores; this finale dwells on the desolate melody of the song “None but the lonely heart.” How Balanchine Turns a Fairy Story Into Tragedy 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z His “real monument,” Walt Whitman wrote after the Civil War, was not his gravestone, but “the desolated, ruined South; nearly the whole generation of young men between 17 and 30 destroyed or maim’d.” John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Glistening apartment blocks gird a desolate construction site where the bodies are found and where Bia — in a scene that encapsulates the picture’s silly-chilly mood — gently kisses the bloodied lips of one near-dead girl. Review: ‘Kill Me Please,’ a Summer of Murder and Teenage Kicks 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Zunino himself had to be won over for some of the displays, including one in particular that shows a few burned-out cars in a desolate, black landscape strewn with tires and dead trees. In a Fading Industrial Past, a Chance for a Rich Future 2011-03-21T12:35:04Z They have become the pop-up plant of our desolate age. Looking sharp! How the cactus became the planet’s most-wanted plant 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z This rather cheerful surround contrasts with the dusty and desolate array of the items themselves, packed in shabby cardboard boxes and suitcases on the floor, along with appliances, a motorbike and a bicycle. Art Review: Ai Weiwei Survey Lands at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-04-17T21:00:53Z They were taken to 10 government-run camps, most of them in desolate, windswept patches of federal land in six Western states. Where is the best place to present Japanese American internees’ art? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z There is a vast emotional range in the work, with sections that are exuberant, tender, desolate and whimsical, moods that Mr. Sohn illuminated here with a thoughtfully conceived and poetic interpretation, enhanced by tasteful ornamentation. Music Review: The Honens Winner Minsoo Sohn Performs at Zankel Hall 2012-10-09T22:01:37Z She’s standing on a rugged Icelandic shore, wind rippling the folds of her yellow gown: a human beacon of survival in a hard, desolate landscape. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z But for Erie Smith, the fidgety man who comes up with that desolate description, this morgue is the only place to be. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z As a new father going through a hard time, I was extraordinarily moved by McCarthy's celebration of the love between man and son in a desolated postapocalyptic world. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z A ‘desolate wilderness’ or ‘Paradise of all parts’? Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z “Muazzez” is one of those stories, by turns playful and desolate, and now translated nearly verbatim into a monologue directed by Mr. Wellman at the Chocolate Factory Theater. Theater Review: ‘Muazzez,’ a Monologue Based on a Mac Wellman Story 2014-01-13T22:17:09Z Douglas's music formed a more explicitly jazzy backdrop to the desolate snowscapes, whirling cell-structure patterns, Bavarian wedding footage and baleful crowd scenes of Morrison's film. Dave Douglas/Gary Lucas ? review 2010-11-22T22:31:00Z In the first chapter, he described Cappy, a desolate French town near the bank of the Somme River: A wall. The search for Hurricane Katrina survivors: Door to door in St. Bernard Parish 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z By Tuesday, both the writers and their fans had departed, and the walkways and common areas felt as desolate as a Welsh sheep farm on a rainy morning. A ?6,000 Auden bargain 2010-07-16T14:34:00Z He had won the girl and was ditching Lee on a desolate spit of land in a distant corner of Norway. 'The Bachelorette' Ditches 4 Guys On 1 Scandinavian Trip 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Whether the camera observes horseback riders atop a bluff or a distant thunderstorm on the horizon, you are mesmerized by the desolate beauty of the Great Plains and the changing sky overhead. Review: In ‘Songs My Brothers Taught Me,’ Reservation Dreams and Their Limits 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Or a clump of red and yellow tomatoes beside a green sink, or, in a desolate, gray back alley, orange paint juxtaposed with rusty bricks and a building’s decorative coral touches. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z She remembers watching astronauts exploring “a lunar/ landscape/ that looks/ quite a bit less desolate/ than news photos of war zones/ down here on this wildly spinning,/ orbiting, soaring, impossible-to-understand/ earth.” Review | Three inspiring books for young readers, from preschool to high school 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The place where he crossed was desolate and mountainous. In praise of refugee chefs: They came from Syria, but they represent an American ideal 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The 1969 moon landing turned an achievement seen only in the imagination and sci-fi movies into a most improbable television event, a live broadcast starring Neil Armstrong and a desolate landscape. Correction: TV-Moon Landing Specials story 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Pain and emptiness are the eternal qualities of Mr. Powers’s desolate novels, whether they grapple with the Civil War or Iraq. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Downtown, along the once bustling and now desolate Millburn Avenue, restaurant and shop lights hinted at dinners and outfits to look forward to once the public health threat subsides and restrictions are eased. Porches, Yards, Driveways, Parking Lots: Where the Neighborhood Is Now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z She lives in a town called Rosary, a dusty evangelical hinterland in a desolate part of California. A Coming-of-Age as American as Apple Pie 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z In cheerier times, the tree might have been a metaphor for green shoots of recovery, but in this desolate place, it is a symbol of humanity's destructive power. The Garden | Theatre review 2010-03-26T23:30:00Z We supported one another on what would at times be lonely and desolate stretches on the course. Move Over, Penguins, Marathon Coming Through 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Johnny’s investigation took him into a desolate section of Raven County known as Hush Arbor, the eponymous “Hush” of the current novel. Review | ‘The Hush’: Murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive love 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The story swerves and swings from executive suites and conference rooms to hectic Manhattan streets and desolate Florida subdivisions. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It segues easily into “Tom,” an earthy soul ballad featuring graceful embellishment by the blues guitarist Doyle Bramhall II, along with a desolate opening couplet: “There’s nothing between us/Except the feeling of nothing.” New Albums by Miranda Lambert, Meshell Ndegeocello and Taylor McFerrin 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s a majestic dirge framed by sustained bass tones and electronic air horns and twinkles up above, as the verses envision destruction and alienation — “I don’t have anything for you” — with desolate calm. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Much of the desolate terrain resembles the uncharted wilderness of the film “The Revenant.” Summer, Reimagined — Minus the Gridlock. Five Alternatives 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z After safely easing my now inoperable vehicle from highway speeds to a rolling stop on the side of some desolate road in the American hinterlands, I could take to the backcountry. Book Review: ‘SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition,’ by John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z She and others who appear to be immune are brought to a creepy hospital in a desolate part of Kansas, where their health is monitored by a skeleton staff overseen by the ominous Dr. Bek. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z There are sections that are more controlled and desolate, too, like your solo for yourself. Her Longtime Dancer Died. Instead of Moving On, She Embraced Loss. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Much later, revisiting Bruton, we saw the buildings looking empty and desolate. Country diary: Bruton, Somerset: Historic dairy farm finds its place on the international art scene 2013-02-18T20:59:01Z Photograph: Daniel Smith Beyond the doors lay Herons Creek, dust-blown and desolate. Baz Luhrmann on The Great Gatsby: 'Fitzgerald was a clown, just like I am' 2013-05-16T18:30:01Z Much of Upper Mustang is a desolate place, inhabited by about 5,400 people and once crossed only by Tibetan pilgrims and yak caravans. Explorer: Myths and Mountains in Nepal 2012-10-28T06:23:48Z Unrelated begins in sociable aimlessness on an Italian holiday that becomes subtly desolating. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z "Let his homestead fall desolate; let there be none to inhabit it." How Joseph Barsabbas's letter might have read 2011-04-07T09:00:01Z As it meanders through desolate stretches of California's Mojave Desert, it's being watched by a Greek chorus of onlookers including Chad and that greatest of schlock-movie stalwarts, Wings Hauser. 'Rubber': When tires go bad 2011-04-07T19:25:04Z It looks flat and broad and desolate, and it looks set to join any number of other failed post-Friends projects for LeBlanc. The one with the other TV show: ranking the Friends cast's next steps 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The last time Kyrgyzstan made a ripple on the global newswires, it was protesters, not wedding parties, populating Bishkek’s desolate squares. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z With an area of some 105,000 square kilometers an covering parts of Peru, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, the Atacama is regarded as one of the driest, most desolate places on Earth. Just like “The Martian”: Scientists are trying to grow potatoes on “Mars” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z “Well, you’re standing by yourself in a desolate area,” he said. Freek’s Mill Spins Romance Near a Superfund Site 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The tale is set mostly on Britain’s desolate Lancashire coast, where the 15-year-old narrator, his family and certain members of his church take a retreat every Easter. ‘The Loney’ and other best horror, sci-fi and fantasy this month 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z That’s the unfortunate fate suffered by Daughter’s sophomore effort, “Not To Disappear,” whose chilly songs sound as desolate as a frozen tundra. Best of 2016: 14 criminally underrated albums that came out this year 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Eventually, the pitiable child is imprisoned by his usurping uncle in an isolated tower in the middle of a desolate plain. Review | What we all could use right now: Tales of magic, wonder and the triumph of goodness 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z There’s no solace at the end, only the desolate drone that began the song. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The desolate piano music from “Tristan and Isolde,” by Saint Laurent’s favorite composer Wagner, was played by François-Frédéric Guy, while the mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch later joined him in another musical tribute. A Memorial to Yves Saint Laurent, 5 Years After His Death 2013-06-11T16:21:24Z The band could sound open, hollow and desolate, or swirling with mixed feelings, or something like heroic. | The Antlers: Strumming Off This Mortal Coil 2009-12-17T05:48:00Z Still, its very presence had transformed the desolate beach from a place of despair into one of promise. Life Lessons from “Fishing With Dad” 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The desolate landscape appealed to people with initiative. Greetings from a new-look Asbury Park 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z In the unforgiving light of the crash, these remade places looked even more desolate. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z A few trees emerge at opposite extremities of a desolate immensity, vaguely suggestive of a strand. Drawing Outside the Lines of the Times 2010-03-26T13:30:00Z Everywhere in this desolated settlement, the forest, whose decline the episode had just detailed, is reclaiming its space. Watching ‘Our Planet,’ Where the Predator Is Us 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The Argentinian won with surprising ease, leaving the Mongolian so desolate that it was actually quite hard to watch. BBC red button Olympics: Fencing, Judo and Dressage 2012-07-30T13:47:03Z “It was desolate but not dangerous,” he recalled. View From the River Café: 40 Years of Feasts and Firsts 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z In “Café Müller,” six dancers inhabit a desolate space, scattered with tables and chairs, that is inspired by the cafe Bausch’s parents owned in Germany. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z It describes exactly what you’re looking for, so a blank or desolate profile communicates that you don’t want anything serious. Singles Have to Think Outside the Screen 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Upon reaching a desolate apartment block, she encountered an elderly Palestinian woman, who began sobbing. No Light at the End of This Tunnel 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Now, there’s one man alone, stranded on a seemingly desolate distant planet with only his wits, his fists and his voice-over. Movie Review: Vin Diesel Returns in Latest Riddick Film 2013-09-05T21:52:59Z Pondering these desolate ruins, you can imagine the bleakness of being a young Roman soldier stationed here centuries ago. In Europe’s border walls, a divided history and a united future 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z It is a stirring place, desolate and imposing, and not at all hard to imagine as the kind of stronghold from which one might have set out marauding. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Will Smith stars as Robert Neville, a former soldier and scientist who — after a frightening pandemic caused an apparent zombie apocalypse — is the last man alive in a desolate, wild version of Manhattan. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor: the Greatest Seasons’ and ‘Amélie’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z He has purchased the plastic dome of the title, a huge tent that he’s going to erect in a desolate rock-sheltered plain and in which he plans to perform. Juleen Compton, a Director and Actor Whose Career Was Tragically Overlooked 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first two months of the year are desolate times for movie lovers who prefer to gorge on new releases. The Hidden Gems of 2017 Movies Are on ... Netflix? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The underpopulated bar where Kyra meets Mr. Sutherland’s character seems desolate enough to be the set for a staging of “No Exit.” Review: ‘Where Is Kyra?’ Portrays a Descent Into Poverty 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Unlike Mr. Massini’s original version, the current “Trilogy” begins on the eve of Lehman Brothers’ end, with a fleeting glimpse of a vast, desolate office that is clearly of the 21st century. Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z I looked around at all the houses that surrounded us on this desolate street, and again felt exposed. U.S. soldier finds his identity as a gay man while serving in silence 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z "Oliver Halliday saw from his window the desolate line of hills, jagged in the higher reaches, then falling to a slow curve, describing the course of a fever." Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z It’s also using a lot of the same camera techniques – wide shots of the desolate landscape, creative split screens, quick moving action sequences – that it used the first time around. Rip it up and start again: why so many shows press reset for their second season 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z In “Aningaaq,” we see an Inuit fisherman, stranded in his own desolate landscape, with his own issues of life and death to deal with. The Carpetbagger: A ‘Gravity’ Short for a Winter’s Day 2013-12-10T21:54:38Z Actually, compared to the frozen slush of the Northeastern megalopolis in February, the desolate beauty, perpetual sunlight and endless seafood buffet of an Arctic Ocean summer look like Barbados. "How I Ended This Summer": A thriller from the Russian Arctic 2011-02-04T01:30:00Z "It was a truly desolating moment," Bills said. Gigantic plaster horse returns to restored Watts Gallery 2010-11-21T23:27:00Z As do ’s car crash and electric-chair paintings, Mr. Prince’s works set up a collision in the viewer’s mind between the aesthetics and spiritual aspirations of Modernist painting and the desolating finitude of terrestrial reality. Art Review: Richard Prince at Gagosian and Salon 94 Bowery 2010-05-27T21:22:00Z As these two drift through forbiddingly quiet forests, sparsely populated towns and eerily empty homes, Affleck’s camera takes in the desolate, dead-end majesty of this shattered world. ‘Light of My Life’ Review: Together at the End of the World 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z There are numerous opportunities to spy white egrets, common kingfishers and other species, and visit desolate sandy stretches washed by tumbling waves. Instead of the Camino de Santiago in Spain, take one less traveled 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Lying there, I remember thinking that those weren’t the routine training rounds I’d heard a hundred times as they hit some random target in a desolate training area. He was a soldier once…and young 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z "It was such a desolate sight — with stray dogs, graffiti and brambles everywhere," she says. The True Story Behind Victoria and Abdul 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Dejected, Superman flies off to Buffalo, New York, or some other desolate, snow-covered landscape. Every single thing that is wrong with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “My daughter missed her big sister,” says the mother, “and said she had lost her best friend. We were desolate.” Our first Christmas as empty nesters 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z With its muted, desolate landscapes, “The Rock From the Sky” is hilariously dark, especially about social relations. Jon Klassen Meets Samuel Beckett in a Hilariously Dark Picture Book 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Rendered as a cartoon cutout, Clark sits on a bulbous rock formation in a desolate Western landscape, his shirt open to reveal his Superman costume. Art Review: Llyn Foulkes Retrospective Opens at the New Museum 2013-06-20T23:05:46Z An inspired minimalism in the tricky last scene, in which Nina has to flap on as a gull, shows desolate Konstantin looking at the world outside – a chandelier and spectral figures – through gauze. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z Celebrate on the lavish, yet desolate yacht of your choosing. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The new day’s terrain was a subtle shift from Iowa and Illinois — a bit less green, more yellow, a little more rolling and much more desolate. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “It’s desolate. They have no light. It’s wet. Scientists say people can starve within three days. There are just many ways to die.” She’s the Secret Weapon in a Film About the Thai Cave Rescue 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z ON a recent Saturday night, in a desolate corner of Red Hook, Brooklyn, a crowd gathered at Sunny’s, a family-owned bar that’s been soothing homesick sailors for well over a century. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z Some tracks, like “Killing It,” begin to suggest the desolate languor of a band like the XX. Music Review: Mining Multiple Sources for Synthetic Character but an Organic Effect 2010-12-14T06:00:18Z Miss Duval creates completely the illusion of a woman distraught, pleading and at least desolated.” Denise Duval, French Soprano and Foremost Poulenc Interpreter, Dies at 94 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Pick up the road south towards Fuencaliente through a gigantic banana plantation to end amid the desolate beauty of the volcanic landscape at the southern tip of the island. 10 great road trips around the world: readers’ tips 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The promising debut of Lance Hammer, a writer-director from California, Ballast centres on a group of black people in a desolate corner of the flat, depressed Mississippi delta. Ballast ? review 2011-03-20T00:05:16Z On painterly soul tracks such as DLM, the clock is always stuck at 4am; the aim: going one more desolate than the xx. James Blake: Overgrown – review 2013-04-06T23:05:10Z The packed streets and teeming bars that have tended to the nocturnal needs of drunken poets, louche musicians and revellers seeking adventure have been left desolate by the coronavirus lockdown. Silence shrouds London's deserted midnight party land 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The desolate, stubborn, overcomposed indie rock of “Folklore,” though, is a tough thicket to tame. Taylor Swift, a Pop Star Done With Pop 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Magnolia was the last film I saw in the 20th century, one desolate afternoon a few days before Christmas, at a screening attended by about three other people. Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Depressingly realistic scenes result: desolate towns, isolated families and public services pushed to collapse. From Albert Camus to The Walking Dead: a look at pandemics in culture 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z This exquisite, deceptively quiet novel opens with a 12-year-old Iranian girl and her donkey, trekking down a desolate desert road. Review: ‘Small Admissions,’ ‘Freebird’ and More 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z I shot a worried glance over to the desolate building that overlooked the dark field just down the road from us. U.S. soldier finds his identity as a gay man while serving in silence 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Filled with desolate vistas, a feathered and furred menagerie, and multiple aperture-like windows, these fragments quickly establish a moody tone and over time become dolorous refrains. Review: The Persistence of Abbas Kiarostami’s Vision in ‘24 Frames’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The central one involved the larger story of the Mandalorians themselves, who overcame centuries of class conflict and religious squabbles and united in an effort to restore their desolate home planet to its former glory. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season Finale Recap: A Sort of Homecoming 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Driving through its downtown at that desolate hour, you could sense how it might have been back in its gold-mining heyday. Journeys: ?We There Yet?? When ?There? Is the Arctic Circle 2011-07-08T19:04:46Z But for most of “Keys,” she plays a woman in thrall to her feelings, by turns connected, needy, amorous, giving, desolate, jealous, and, eventually, healing. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Lower, a historian of the Holocaust who has worked with Nazi hunters, ponders a photograph, taken in October 1941, in the once thriving, now desolate Ukrainian town of Miropol. When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The solution, in this case, is a four-pronged narrative, each strand involving a lost soul who washes up at a detention center in a desolate stretch of South Australia. Review: In ‘Stateless’ on Netflix, Cate Blanchett (and Immigration) 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Miles of flat, desolate sand stretched to the horizon in all directions, dissolving into an immense dome of pale blue. 4,000 Miles, Seven Countries: An African Adventure on Two Wheels 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It becomes a character, howling around the Earnshaws' tiny cottage on the desolate Yorkshire moors, never satisfied, never quieting. Dark passion envelopes 'Wuthering Heights' 2012-10-18T20:17:06Z Bleak, desolate seascapes reflect the depressions he went through. LS Lowry exhibition in Salford reveals artist's dark side 2013-06-19T16:33:18Z Two utopians from different eras establish private idylls on California’s desolate Channel Islands; this novel preserves their tantalizing dreams. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z Long shots of a desolate, dry and unwelcoming land are there with all the grit and glory; director of photography Jens Schlosser is often right down in the dirt and mud that cake the boots. 'The Salvation' a western that gets lost in the genre 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He is particularly recognised for his trademark matchstick men represented in desolate industrial and urban landscapes. LS Lowry collection under the hammer 2013-05-29T07:53:55Z Nicol notes that the "rootless, transient" gumshoe became a quintessentially noir character, inspired by the 1920s pulp fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett and embodying the "desolate, uncertain world" of the 1940s and 50s. The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies by Bran Nicol – review 2013-07-26T17:15:00Z Over here is just about the most desolate, melancholy landscape in the world. Perspective | The no-pressure holiday gift you won’t even have to wrap 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Photograph: BFI Cary Grant runs through a desolate cornfield, pursued by a crop duster overhead. Alfred Hitchcock: from silent film director to inventor of modern horror 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z Most of Nevada is still the literal Wild West, the stretch between Las Vegas and Reno filled with desolate beauty and scrub cities in all directions. Las Vegas was built by gangsters, and we celebrated those stories 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The only resident seems to be a woman who runs a food truck in a desolate parking lot. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The shots of a desolate field of the lost put into relief the desperation of the comic characters we’ve been watching for a year and a half. Last Night's Last Man on Earth Was a Truly Great Sitcom Episode 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Many of the images are gruesome, the stories recounted harrowing — each heightened by interspersed desolate electric guitar riffs. Crime and no punishment: New PBS documentary series shows there is no justice for war criminals 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Secluded in splendor, the Armitages, too, harbor desolate private struggles that lead them to inflict external racial terror. “Get Out” and the Death of White Racial Innocence 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z This includes the name of the town, Neverest, the site of some of the story’s moving parts and an assortment of marching bands that have competitively converged to blare and toot down the desolate streets. Movie Review: ‘Swerve,’ a Thriller Set in the Australian Desert 2013-12-05T23:27:49Z If the final Adagio lacked a certain desolate intensity, the third movement’s rousing march showed off this orchestra’s characteristic combination of power and class. Music in Review: ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY 2011-03-07T21:45:11Z Like firecrackers exploding around downtown Durham, clusters of small businesses are popping up and enlivening one desolate block after another. A Corner of Durham, N.C., Comes to Life 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Clearly then, it is to the ideas embodied in this book, and not to its often powerful depiction of a priggish, proud and desolatingly lonely personality, that she wishes us to respond. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-20T08:00:12Z “Black Star,” a cat-and-mouse tale of two astronauts stranded on a desolate planet, comes out in May. Beyond ‘Black Panther’: Afrofuturism Is Booming in Comics 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z From my own bookshelf, I pick up “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography” by Kathleen Norris and find myself in a place where the wind howls and the vast sky opens to long stretches of desolate highway. Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Driving up and down Utah’s desolate Route 117 with the trucker Ben Jones is an education. Keep Watch Over Your Children: Danger Lurks Everywhere 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z At night as I walked home from a pub or from the National Library, the street that led from Stephen's Green to Hatch Street was empty and desolate. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z There were moments that recalled Metallica or Megadeth at their most roaring, and also flecks of desolate country and trancelike Middle Eastern music. Music Review: Fresh Off Hiatus, Pleasing Fans and Testing Stamina 2011-03-16T21:54:58Z The sandy stretch opening "Point and Shoot" looks equally as desolate until we hear the watery sighs of the sea joining the windy whoosh, letting us know this is the beach, not the desert. "Better Call Saul" goes deeper into the grey as it accelerates toward the end 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Washington is opposed to using the expression “food desert,” which she calls “an outsider term” that calls desolate places, rather than places with enormous potential, to mind. Let's call it what it is: food apartheid 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z It also has songs of desolate stoicism and disconsolate fury. Playlist: Sad Out West, Rocking Out in Brooklyn 2011-03-06T01:44:59Z Sequestered on the desolate Texas plains, and force-fed Koresh’s terrifying visions of Armageddon for hours on end, Koresh’s followers gradually lost their moral compass. An Audiobook Gives New Life to the Haunting Memoir of a Waco Survivor 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Together, Campion and Wegner battled the extreme conditions of the New Zealand landscape to transport audiences to a desolate ranch in 1920s Montana and create an unforgettable piece about human fragility. Ari Wegner: The other woman behind ‘The Power of the Dog’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter presents these and other images as vestiges of human existence in this documentary, conjuring a dystopian age with desolate environmental shots. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and ‘Comrade Detective’ 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z It's an elegiac movement recorded by a symphony orchestra that features desolate violins swelling around a barely there synthesizer pulse. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z Dancing On My Own is the irresistible sound of heartbreak on the dancefloor, desolate solitude in a room of euphoric revellers. Our best track of 2010: Robyn - Dancing On My Own 2010-12-20T14:01:53Z Conversely, I'm rather liking the sound of Kosinski's other project, a planned adaptation of his own comic book about a soldier assigned to patrol a desolate planet who meets a mysterious traveller. Will Tron 3's empire strike back or crash out? 2011-04-07T15:11:37Z This was a more desolate beauty, remote and isolating. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z It was 3 a.m. by the time we turned down the desolate road that leads to the Ion Luxury Adventure Hotel, an hour’s drive east of Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland, Seeking a Luxury Hotel Amid the Rustic Charm 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles City Council tapped the private, nonprofit Discovery Science Center to try to bring the desolate Hansen Dam building to life. Discovery Science Center's L.A. offshoot museum to open in November 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z One by one, members of the Traveling Symphony disappear as the Prophet pursues them through the desolate countryside, mimicking the narrative in “Dr. Eleven,” a comic book created by one of Arthur’s ex-wives. Sci-fi & fantasy by Emily St. John Mandel, Robert Jackson Bennett, Lauren Beukes It is, in other words, the life and soul of this otherwise desolate streetscape. What price success? London Design festival misses a trick ? again 2010-09-28T15:09:00Z But then she finds that Earth has become desolate in her absence so she returns, bearing spring. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “When I visited him a few weeks before he died,” Mr. Sides said, “I asked him, ‘Why did you pick such a lonesome and desolate and faraway place to be buried?’ Kurt Markus, Photographer of Cowboys and Models, Is Dead at 75 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Pasture fenced by sagging barbed wire, a collapsed barn, a cabin and two wells are the desolate relicts of past life and labor. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z Some images show signs of human life—houses, streets—but many are desolate, dusty landscapes. “Best of Luck with the Wall” Puts the Borderlands Back in Context 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Yet if the bust he was carving was a source of isolation, it also sustained him in that desolate place. Ginger Rogers bust, sculptor’s letter displayed at National Portrait Gallery When human habitations are introduced to these desolate scenes the effect is jarring and unsettling. Poisoned Landscapes 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Within the production’s alternating visions of the claustrophobic boardinghouse and desolate roadscapes, the fraught denizens of Duluth seem perched precariously on the brink of infinity. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The story unfolds in a desolate, somewhat dystopian Mediterranean landscape, though the setting is never explicitly identified. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The screenplay, by Caroline Court and Ben Ip, moves the story to the fictional Stanley Island, a desolate retreat off the coast of England, and pushes the period back to 1934. | 'Cracks': At Desolate Girls? School, Diving Teacher Rules Roost 2011-03-17T22:29:06Z Mr. Lee was one of many young people who grew up along Cleveland Avenue, a desolate South Atlanta corridor, and were inspired by Mr. Williams and his transformation into the global star Young Thug. Violent Gang, or Rap Label? Prosecutors Say Young Thug’s YSL Is Both. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z I work in a desolate area without food options. The Drink That Stands Between Recovery and Relapse 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z There’s a chatty cocktail scene at the lobby bar, but Rare, the fiery orange dining room, was desolate. Six New (and Affordable) Boutique Hotels in New York 2010-06-18T21:58:00Z “Nocturnal,” about a femme fatale with a “desolate interior,” explodes out of a skulking bass line with distorted guitar and shards of dissonant piano. New Music: Grace Woodroofe, Tim McGraw, Richard Galliano - Review 2012-01-23T23:00:11Z About midway through the darkly engrossing novel “A Million Drops,” a young woman with too many questions on her mind arrives at the hellscape of a desolate Western Siberian town. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z As always, Slinger is compelling to watch: he mines every phrase, utters heartwrenching cries of desolate grief and, more than any Hamlet I recall, is obsessed by Ophelia, whose corpse remains visible to the last. Hamlet – review 2013-03-27T18:17:55Z The camera cruises past a desolate field of rubble and broken glass. Phantom Ride: Simon Starling's Tate Britain time machine 2013-03-11T18:08:11Z It’s a radically upbeat note that’s too contrived in an otherwise desolate situation. Review: ‘Rosa Chumbe’ Offers Little Hope for Redemption 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Is a therapy robot really going to help a Rocket Man stranded on a desolate surface, floating in his own ironic detachment? Perspective | Six graphic novels to read while you self-quarantine 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The colossal party scenes – in the pool, on the beach, in the hotel room, on the balcony – are coolly choreographed in montage, and the more desolate "reportage" shots outside all-night convenience stores look good. Spring Breakers – review 2013-04-04T15:58:00Z When D’Amore isn’t speaking — and for most of those three minutes and 40 seconds, she is silent — her body language is desolating. "Untouchable" Harvey Weinstein: Everyone agreeing with Dave Chappelle on #MeToo needs to watch 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z He called the Memphis strike another step on the journey from “the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.” 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The house sits in the middle of a barren stretch of land, looking desolate and abandoned even when it’s newly built and full of people. ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z He does these calculations over some of the most desolate production of his career. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The stage backdrop was a flat, empty prairie, and the songs were just as desolate: mostly slow, mostly in minor keys and almost entirely bleak. Music Review: Jakob Dylan at Town Hall, Bleak and Somber 2010-04-22T21:42:00Z I wondered if he would still be there when I returned alone, late at night, when the station would be desolate, and started charting another route home. The Power of #YesAllWomen 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Perched atop a stage resembling a desolate mountain hideaway fit for a villain, 21 Savage conjured the image of a menacing overlord several times during his show at the Anthem on Tuesday night. Six months after ICE arrest, 21 Savage raps his redemption 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z In fact she is desolate, having seen her husband himself locked away only a few months earlier after the diagnosis of madness. The 10 best portraits of queens 2012-06-02T23:06:01Z Lyrics like that are desolate, a little tragic; they necessitate a singing style that’s not overly effusive. Shawn Mendes, the Lonely, Uncertain Pop Heartthrob 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z It is not complete without experiencing the desolate up-and-down whistled theme from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” accompanied by a band — of ukuleles. The Week Ahead: Oct. 14 — 20 2012-10-14T07:20:04Z A man in his late 40s and his son, about 10, both unnamed, are walking a desolated road. Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z "Bombay Beach," which earned a unanimous vote by the jury for its "beauty, lyricism, empathy and invention," takes place in the desolate desert by California's Salton Sea. Tribeca festival jury rewards first time directors 2011-04-29T00:26:26Z The two share their unusual snack at a dive in a part of Los Angeles that looks like a wasteland, a desolate stretch that’s home to the avenue of the movie’s title. | 'Bellflower': A Souped-Up Romance Turns Demolition Derby 2011-08-04T21:58:54Z Many are in desolate wilderness areas that required Indiana Jones-style derring-do to locate. Between Tijuana and San Diego, an Art Ethos Thrives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z A second miscarriage occurs while he is tending the lighthouse during a furious storm and leaves them feeling desolate. Review: A Baby in a Boat Changes Everything in ‘The Light Between Oceans’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z At such times Manchester's club scene is a bit like Athens in August, without the hardened mullets, sun-bleached Iron Maiden T-shirts and wilting aubergines, but just as desolate. This week's new clubs 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z Now that Saul is officially on the scene, those fan-bait details matter less than the toll exacted on everyone around him as part of crossing this bridge between the character's past and his desolate future. The "Better Call Saul" point of no return: Jimmy McGill is dead, and Saul Goodman rises 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z With its skeletal narrative and desolate tone, “Bad Fever” is a low-budget oddity, a shambling study of pathological loneliness that begs for our sympathies with defiant reticence. Movie Review: ?Bad Fever,? Directed by Dustin Guy Defa 2012-02-03T01:37:26Z The roof is missing and the whole island appeared forlorn and desolate. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Or maybe as shimmering signposts at a desolate crossroads. Riff: Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women 2011-04-24T01:43:01Z |
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