“Sure, there were the people talking in the streets and the other's hawking their wares, but most of the population wandered desolately down the streets in an ominous silence.”

“I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store.”

“From the ice-clad flanks of these desolately beautiful high regions flow many streams and rivers.”