Sentences with phrase «as desolate»

But when looked at critically, Katniss and Tris have relationships that are just as desolate and grey as the worlds they live in.

Without the students walking the halls and milling about and the sounds of their conversations, Hogwarts comes across as desolate and somewhat creepy.

Streets and highways appeared as desolate as auto junkyards and major cities became mausoleums of the millions who died from sarin gas bombings.Foreign superpowers rose up while our nation's leaders fought amongst themselves.

As the desolate North Carolina landscape whisked by, we were mesmerized by the stories Tom with a beard had to share.

Far from embracing the richness of our planet, The Space Between Us is as desolate as Mars.

Double nominated, Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer recreate the intricate aesthetics of 1940s British Parliament in «Darkest Hour,» as well as a desolate and enchanted French castle in «Beauty and the Beast.»

Which is notable, to say the least, for someone who's been as desolate at heart as I have, for so long.

«It looked as desolate as the Moon — mud everywhere,» says Goodbred.

He described Israel as a desolate country devoid of both vegetation and human population: He said, ``.....

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The remote, desolate area — described as looking «like the surface of the moon» by a developer — is supposed to have some of the strongest winds in the world.

Summary: «Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son.

It's beautiful but desolate, making it the perfect backdrop for «Fury Road» — especially because the movie used as little CGI and green screen as possible.

Your country is desolate; Your cities are burned with fire; Your land, strangers devour it in your presence, And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

All of us, Lord, from the moment we are born feel within us this disturbing mixture of remoteness and nearness; and in our heritage of sorrow and hope, passed down to us though the ages, there is no yearning more desolate than that which makes us weep with vexation and desire as we stand in the midst of the Presence which hovers about us nameless and impalpable and is indwelling in all things.

7 Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

(Revelation 6:10) The writer of Lamentations, bewailing the miserable estate of desolated Zion, cried, «Do unto them, as thou hast done unto me»; (Lamentations 1:22) Nehemiah, rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, besought Yahweh against his foes, «Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee»; (Nehemiah 4:5) and in the Psalter are outbursts of vindictiveness the singing of which in the second temple seems scarcely credible:

As poor and desolate as they were, these immigrants were able to ignite, not decimate, the economies of their adopted homes and build whole new industries and centers of trade that had not existed and may never have existed had the refugees never arriveAs poor and desolate as they were, these immigrants were able to ignite, not decimate, the economies of their adopted homes and build whole new industries and centers of trade that had not existed and may never have existed had the refugees never arriveas they were, these immigrants were able to ignite, not decimate, the economies of their adopted homes and build whole new industries and centers of trade that had not existed and may never have existed had the refugees never arrived.

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

That land, like the album, might be a little desolate, but it's also a reminder that loneliness is not nearly as bad as it's made out to be.

In the 1930s a humble and holy housewife Agnes Holloway was shown a vision of «God's Master - Key — the Law of Control and Direction» which was given for a time when «Rome was sacked and desolate as never before — either by persecution or by war, or if by war by a war which was also a persecution.»

As the lonely nomad passes the desolate and blackened tell, he hisses with astonishment (18:16; 50:13; 51:37).

Uttering hushed prayers in subways as the doors close in, softly crying out for rescue on long desolate Central Park walks in the dead of winter.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of church as usual to the sunlit path of loving community.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

7 [Because of your detestable disobedience] your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land — strangers devour it in your very presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

As we crossed back into the U.S. the next day, we realized that we had not only found a beach in paradise along with the perfect fish taco, but we had also met many friendly, helpful people and enjoyed a wide variety of savory seafood meals in a rugged and often desolate, yet breathtakingly beautiful corner of the world.

England, rather surprisingly, does not rank as the most desolate footballing outpost ever coached by Roy Hodgson.

As a parent, especially a less experienced one, there is nothing more frightening than seeing your child sick; besides remorse that you may have failed them, or even caused the sickness, there is this desolate feeling of helplessness to taking the pain away and making it all feel better.

What it would change, Mahoney said, is the «desolate» feeling you get, year - round, as you approach the fairgrounds.

After sitting fallow for 43 years as the Lower East Side exploded in popularity around it, a desolate stretch of parking lots along Delancey Street is closer than ever to being transformed into housing and shops, potentially marking the end of a long and bitter stalemate over the future of the sites.

A request for proposals to develop a chunk of the Harriman Office Campus received no bids, while the parking lot space once contemplated as the site of the Albany convention center — slated to open in March a few blocks uphill — remains desolate.

Meanwhile, relatively desolate pockets of the cosmos, known as voids, make up a thin...

Nowhere is that more true than in the UK, where the past week has seen a former government energy adviser suggest that the practice should be confined to the «desolate» north - east, even as vociferous protests erupted near a normally tranquil village in the prosperous Home Counties.

As NASA's Curiosity rover scours the surface of Mars and beams pictures of the stark and desolate landscape back to Earth, we've begun to paint a picture of what living on the red planet might actually be like.

As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken and that no catechisms has desolated the whole world.

In the 1978 follow - up album to «Born to Run,» Bruce Springsteen uses darkness on the edge of town as a metaphor for the desolate unknown we all face as we grow up and try to understand the world.

As a farm girl from a small town in Missouri, a land filled with trees, rivers, and lakes, I imagined the desert to be desolate, parched, and dusty, with little to offer me.

Watch one of the most spectacular sites in nature as adult female leatherback turtles come ashore to lay their eggs on desolate sandy beaches in the Caribbean island of Trinidad.

You should not be playing with multiple hearts as due to this short term fun, you will be left alone and desolated at the end of day.

Synopsis: Beautiful but pious sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) grow to spinsterhood under the wrathful eye of their strict pastor father on the forbidding and desolate coast of Jutland, until one day, Philippa's former suitor sends a Parisian refugee named Babette (Stéphane Audran) to serve as the family cook.

Christian Frei's documentary War Photographer follows acclaimed photojournalist James Nachtwey as he finds stories in some of the most desolate locations on the planet.

The setting is Manchester, unrecognisable in that desolate ancient landscape, although the fact that one character is called «Goona» might hint that north London culture is important as well.

«The Interpreter» opens with a desolate scene that sets the tone for the brutality suffered by the impoverished citizens of Matobo where a disused soccer stadium serves as a hiding place for corpses.

After the truck in which he's riding breaks down, Moises and his crew have to cross a desolate area of the Sonoran Desert known as The Badlands.

They all combine to do such a good job in making you feel as if you're inside the desolate wasteland.

The movie never really digs into the terror of isolation or the desolate beauty of life on Mars — there's hardly a single memorable image in the whole thing, and generally serves as a prime example of how director Ridley Scott is more polished journeyman than top - tier visionary.

That's why I'm putting it down as essential viewing for anyone who loves rock»n' roll, anyone who ever played in a band, anyone who grew up in the»60s, or anyone who'd simply like to see how a story that starts with one kind of twist — by Joey Dee and the Starliters — can end up six years later on a desolate Hollywood Boulevard with another, leaving us to ponder where music, and we, still might be headed.

As gradually, reluctantly, inadvertently, Alvin and Lance reveal a little more about themselves, the splendid and desolate space they inhabit becomes almost magical, as an enchanted circle with its own laws of time and spacAs gradually, reluctantly, inadvertently, Alvin and Lance reveal a little more about themselves, the splendid and desolate space they inhabit becomes almost magical, as an enchanted circle with its own laws of time and spacas an enchanted circle with its own laws of time and space.

Later levels rarely show plant life, and are mostly dark desolate rooms filled with giant mechanics, such as pile drivers, hammers, gears, pipes, and robotic hands that are used for various means of work.

As he travels through the town, on way to the desolate island he will soon call home, he meets the beautiful Isabel (Vikander).