Sentences with phrase «by desolate»

A lovely, somber landscape by Betye Saar was inspired by the desolate appearance of Laurel Canyon, where she lived after a big fire.

The action is framed by a desolate afterlife in which Adam seeks to restore his memories and atone for his sins.

The result was «Holy Island», a crime novel inspired by the desolate landscape of her childhood home in Northumberland, which was published in January this year.

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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.

With Target gone, Sears Canada struggling, and a mid-market apparel chain going belly up every week, Walmart's expansion plans virtually assure that Canada's desolate retail landscape will soon be dominated by blue - vested Walmart greeters proffering smiles and deals on toilet paper.

Yeah, they've been resolved by stripping Baltimore City of essential tax revenues so that whole areas of the city are desolate or abandoned and we look like a third - world country, with a Gold Coast and exclusive suburbs.

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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.

Mark and Matthew begin by referring to the «desolating sacrilege» (KJV «abomination of desolation») which will be «set up where it ought not to be» (Mark), «standing in the holy place» (Matthew).

There the expression refers to the desecration of the temple in 167 B.C. by Antiochus Epiphanes, whose forces «erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering» (I Macc 1:54).

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.

the environment is cold and desolated by an expansive cover of snow.

The «desolating sacrilege,» of verse 14, refers to Daniel 9:27 and 11:31 where the pagan pollution of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes is described.

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.»

John was sent to the dungeon of Machaerus, the desert fortress perched high on a desolate, forsaken ridge by the Dead Sea.

He will not leave his disciples comfortless and desolate, he says, but will come to them and will manifest himself unto them; this coming is of such a kind, however, that it means his being in them and making his abode with them; far from being a visible, external manifestation, the world can not see him, and only those who love him and are loved by him will inwardly know this divine parousia.

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?

Or would you comfort those dying in torment on desolate shores by assuring them that others will profit from their demise and that they are discharging the parts assigned them by universal law?

If the house became defiled, Yahweh threatened to leave his house and his people desolate, and so again priests served Israel by serving Yahweh.

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.

Whitehead's heart was desolated by the casualty lists.

It's an hour from London by train, but it felt farther once I was strolling along its desolate waterfront, peering through the twilight toward the island of Mersea, which is renowned for its oysters.

Dogs, pickup trucks, campfires and an occasional howl in the desolate night are the background for hunters» tales of wily predators made even more clever by civilization

But this season, albeit not by his design, the wide spaces of Old Trafford have been strange and desolate places.

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

In the middle of the desolate Taklamakan Desert, on the far western edge of China and surrounded by forbidding mountains, a necropolis descends for five levels into the sands.

By Ian AndersonAT first sight, Coober Pedy is just a desolate town in the middle of nowhere.

By the time Scott complained in his last diary entry on 10 March 1912 that «the weather conditions are awful,» he had walked and skied 1600 miles across one of the harshest and most desolate landscapes on Earth.

The bones of Timurlengia were collected during a decade of field expeditions to Uzbekistan's desolate Kyzylkum Desert, one of the driest areas of the world, led by my colleagues Alexander Averianov and Hans - Dieter Sues.

When the mutineers from HMS Bounty landed on Pitcairn Island, they found no people — just a desolate land marked by the relics of a vanished society.

Nolan was influenced by the real - life ecological disaster of the Dust Bowl in 1930s North America, when the rich top soil essential to farming dried out and blew away, desolating vast areas and causing famine and mass human displacement — a situation that could yet happen again with the severe, ongoing US drought in the US.

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.

A cheat is most easily seen by the going with: a self - assertive disabled individual connects with you, uncover to you his / her desolate life story all of a sudden and methodologies you to send them money for a medicine, a plane ticket or bills.

Thanks to an irreverent storyline and a gameplay enriched by an excellent level design, this expansion is highly recommended to anyone who still wanders the desolate lands of the Mojave.

Though rife with implausibilities, «Transpecos» is fortified by strong acting and a location whose desolate beauty is a gift to Jeffrey Waldron's serene camera.

Jason and Danny are forever haunted by the murder of their bank robber father which left their family desolate.

«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.

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.

Owned by a man and his daughter, the weary steed charges along through the plains during a violent wind storm, carrying said man to the location we'll spend the rest of the movie trapped in — a dark, empty house on a desolate farmland.

Cargo paints a desolate yet heartwarming picture of fatherhood that's hard not to be moved by.

Adapting short stories by Maile Meloy, she has created a cinematic portrait of several disparate women set in desolate Livingston, Montana.

The Coens» concise, efficient script proficiently captures McCarthy's melancholic view of old - young disparities, whether it be Ed Tom's utilization of horses to scour the desolate desert for clues, or his bafflement at the callous disregard for the dead (and propriety) shown by a guy transporting corpses to the morgue.

While we still don't know too many details, we get a brief glimpse of a young Japanese boy and girl finding themselves in a desolate, apocalyptic Japan over-run by demons, which is pretty typical for the series.

She is in her desolate way «the last rose of summer / Left blooming alone / All her lovely companions / Are faded and gone» and oddly the town's dwarf, wittily played by Peter Dinklage, has a major crush on her, and his gallant admiration is to play an important role.

Moises is traveling by foot with a group of undocumented workers across a desolate strip of the border between Mexico and the United States, seeking a new life in the north.

Jeepers Creepers (Collector's Edition) On a desolate country highway, two homeward - bound teens (Gina Philips, The Sickhouse and Justin Long, Drag Me to Hell) are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat - up truck... and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

Her identity crisis is spurred on by the static nature of her life: her desolate, though perfectly decorated house, her robotic relationship with her husband, the empty conversations with insipid friends.

Their car, however, is dead, and as they try in vain to get help, they come to realize they are not alone on these desolate backroads — a terrifying evil is lurking in the surrounding woods, intent on never letting them leave... The Monster is both written and directed by American filmmaker Bryan Bertino, of the horror films The Strangers and Mockingbird previously.

The overwhelming concluding passages, interrupted by shots of the sky, are among the most desolate Bergman ever filmed.