| She causes, some say, desolation, evil, and decay, yet she also creates palaces of art and culture, gardens of rank luxuriance. |
| Here, in the words of the Scripture, is desolation of abomination, or at any rate its beginnings. |
| However, the island's desolation was offset by whalers who came aboard from the ships Emma Jane and Roswell King. |
| The paper's empty offices, mid-gutting, suggested the twin desolations of war and obsolescence. |
| Write down shared movements so all can see them, and recognize consolations and desolations. |
| He did not elaborate, but I imagined that he might have been brooding over unfinished business with his mother, or maybe his marriage, which had grown bleaker amid the desolations of age. |
