desolation

Originally formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1978, The Cure continue to endure as alternative rock’s goth icons - pitching lyrics of love, angst and desolation against a kaleidoscope of melodies.

To the massive relief of the state’s agribusiness, this outbreak and most of those to come — unlike the desolation of Florida’s commercial agriculture — were aggressively confined pretty much to small-scale commercial growers and to gentlemen cultivators with backyard trees, the kind of pocket orchards that had enticed Midwestern immigrants here with the promise that you could just step off your back porch to pluck your morning orange.

The desolation of Kristofferson's downbeat delivery tells you this song is about much more than a bad hangover.

Furiosa is a child of desolation.

The blistering heat — with an average high temperature that’s more than 100 degrees four months of the year — only heightens the sense of desolation.