| That emerges in the desolating blow-by-blow collapse of these once-blessed children into the killing-grounds of the First World War. |
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| Richter's subsequent inventions, in many styles and mediums, project calmly desolating ironies so vast that they feel atmospheric. |
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| Henry Dunant, a young Swiss man, was confronted with the desolating scenes of an endless procession of carts carrying thousands of wounded. |
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| A lot of the news is desolating, while other news is encouraging, such as the extraordinary efforts to assist and bring relief to survivors. |
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| But his is a shallow, brittle, ultimately desolating conceit — seizing on things that are a-twitch with a little vitality, and chloroforming them. |
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| Kumalo stood shocked at the frightening and desolating words. |
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