desolation
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“There’s a sense of glamour and desolation about Lila that makes me think of Marilyn Monroe,” said the writer Daphne Merkin, who hired Raicek to be her research assistant in 2006.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
For Koch, the desolation was only a reminder of how much Earth provides us: water, air, warmth, food.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
He remarked that “the desolation of the city, and the mystery that hung over it, all created an interest higher, if possible, than I had ever felt among the ruins of the Old World.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
This was particularly the case with the desert, whose desolation and desperation gave shape to the film's third act and the journey its characters were on.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
The hut stood in a hollow of the dunes, and the old man and woman lived there alone in the utter desolation of the empty sea.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing desolation
The Declaration of Independence
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Fahrenheit 451
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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