There was in that place no sign of life—neither token of water, nor trace of plant, nor shadow of flying bird—nothing but desolation rising to desolation.
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It is a place of both true desolation and love.
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Here are four heartwarming examples of kindness amid the desolation.
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Sebastián Liste has another masterpiece from desolation in Machu Picchu.
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Some readers may see desolation and gloom behind her smile.
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I sensed their desolation in the weakness of their handshakes.
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Desolation crept across the neighborhood in the 1980s and 1990s.
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For some, New York City's Bowery conjures visions of desolation.
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Horror starts at home in Celine Loup's exploration of postpartum desolation.
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That weird meeting of utter desolation and post-apocalyptic desert city.
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Even the elite meals arrive with a side salad of desolation.
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A savior from certain desolation and a variety of personality disorders.
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Their business was booming, and they saw opportunity in the desolation.
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Where she saw danger and desolation, I saw a thriving community.
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Sometimes they break into bluesy a cappella wails, intoning words of desolation.
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That mythic tenor might explain why his photographs evoke vacancy or desolation.
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Wind River opens on a landscape of white, of cold, of desolation.
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He was fifty-seven, and his sudden death came as a desolation.
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But, to many of us, he is desolation, or the possibility thereof.
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Ayodhya's desolation today is difficult to reconcile with memories of my childhood.
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But not every possible cosmic conclusion is one of utter desolation and emptiness.
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But the family that runs the place is at home in the desolation.
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In fact, desolation and love might just be the pillars of this season.
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Still, one can share the desolation so many are feeling with Baker's loss.
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Here's your answer, and Mark Hamill's performance really sells Luke's sense of desolation.
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Some of its 60 pictures were of children, smiling and playing amid desolation.
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Not official theaters, but places that conveyed that sense of abandonment, of desolation.
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In Islamorada, north of here, there were similar scenes of desolation and devastation.
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I'd expected a scorching sun, but instead found a swathe of poetic desolation.
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The desolation suffered by those affected drew humanitarian responses from around the world.
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"Mist" evokes Godard's ambiance of gritty desolation alongside a sense of romantic gloominess.
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Still, the desolation of the past three years is probably the worst on record.
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"But it was magnificent desolation, and I think Neil remarked on the beauty too."
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Only the gold protective tint of the astronauts' visors lends color to the desolation.
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Despite his desolation, he remains hopeful that one day he will find his love.
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But after I had my daughter, all that desolation I'd suppressed during IVF emerged.
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This video's 360-degree view captures the desolation of a big city during a hurricane.
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"Look at this misery – total desolation," he said, looking around at the remnants of homes.
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All loss is akin to other loss; loss begets loss, and loss leads to desolation.
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She had severe gastrointestinal issues, and discussed her desolation about it with Dr. Baker daily.
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Though mainly nonrepresentational, certain desert landscapes and figures evoke the desolation of a post-apocalyptic world.
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Durango is almost scary—it's a huge, gray painting that's just about a kind of desolation.
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Further still, Khemmis' Desolation makes a case to be the piece that fully realize this movement.
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I trudge on through the desolation, down a straight road that simply never wants to end.
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He kept repeating "Non, non, non, non" with as much rage as desolation in his voice.
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The vibrant atmosphere is so different from the grim desolation of the camp across the road.
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In the desolation, chaos and widespread panic that followed, a surge in child trafficking was inevitable.
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The update coincides with the upcoming story DLC Desolation of Mordor, which releases on May 8.
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We ended up taking quite a journey up North to place called Desolation Sound in Canada.
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Filmed in natural light, the craggy desert vistas beneath a cloudy sky evoke a magnificent desolation.
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But these were only adjectives; the harbor itself did not dwell upon its peacefulness or desolation.
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The name itself is already a commemoration: the desolation of time is built into the designation.
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Times Insider How a team of photographers documented the quiet desolation of cities during the pandemic.
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Artfully piled trash and strategically abandoned cars simulate urban desolation, here in Copenhagen rather than Atlanta.
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In the twentieth century, the epoch of "The Waste Land," an aesthetic of desolation took hold.
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I think this curiosity, this feeling of desolation and wonder, is what I was looking for.
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All I remember is the picture of her life, and the speechless desolation that filled me.
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And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.
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Worst of all is that capitalism has no end—no death, destruction, misery, or desolation is enough.
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Chez Fleiss—surrounded by cacti, brush, and desolation—is located in a frontier town named Pahrump, Nevada.
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"When I got off and looked around, and it was easy to balance, I said 'magnificent desolation.'"
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This is nothing new, presumably, but there is a fresh note of desolation running through her account.
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Exquisitely composed, the views have the classical lines of Renaissance perspective and the mood of Desolation Row.
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For years, the area was defined by crumbling 100-year-old buildings, desolation, government corruption and poverty.
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What could she put against the desolation of that moment, watching the ship start its engines again.
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I cannot think of another artist who weaves together desolation and joy to such an exquisite pitch.
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She would take a stage coach toward Echo Lake or Donnor Pass and hike into Desolation Wilderness.
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Its music is likewise cautiously optimistic, highlighting Mark Watney's small victories instead of the magnitude of his desolation.
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Made in stark black and white to further emphasize this sense of desolation, Keene produces some stunning compositions.
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And Bruce Springsteen's "Long Walk Home" described the desolation of a small town where the narrator grew up.
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In the Desolation Row of the Trump era, "Which side are you on?" has become the paramount question.
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It meshes ambient music and songs with words, in tracks that move amid meditation, disquiet, desolation and uplift.
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I kept getting up from my desk, prowling around the house in an inchoate desolation I didn't understand.
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It's a beautiful project that captures the desolation of the desert, Americana, and reflects on consumerism and waste.
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In this space between desolation and celebration, Gibson is creating the art we need to navigate contemporary existence.
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I kept getting up from my desk, prowling around the house in an inchoate desolation I didn't understand.
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Mr. Lloyd shows that desolation is the actual bond between three restless people who cannot come to peace.
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Perversely, Benjamin's flâneur may be reborn in the dead malls that dot the Rust Belt desolation between the coasts.
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Even the TV is struggling back to life after years of desolation that brought legendary companies to their knees.
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In answer to that conundrum, the sheeted observer sticks around while years of habitation, or empty desolation, roll by.
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It was called, rather worryingly, the Valley of Desolation (where the sign added, ominously, that no dogs are allowed).
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You might not have spotted Stephen Colbert's cameo in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as 'Lake-Town Spy.
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That left the complex vacant, little more than a subject for photographers who find apocalyptic beauty in the desolation.
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On a switchback-filled hike canonized by Jack Kerouac, daredevils can channel their inner beatnik on Desolation Peak Trail.
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"Kiss some stranger just 'cause she had eyes that were kind of like yours," he sings with palpable desolation.
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Noir is a cry of desolation in the face of a universe that is malevolent—or, at best, indifferent.
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She makes the city absorb all the desolation that she is too delicate-minded to tell us was Pavese's.
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Obviously, there is a lot of sadness and desolation for us to no longer be in our second home.
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Tagaq's surreal meld of poetry and prose transmutes the Arctic's boundless beauty, intensity, and desolation into a wrenching contemporary mythology.
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The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation.
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Each individual shot creates a frisson of desolation that resonates far beyond the facile irony suggested by the movie's title.
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DESOLATION A mother, her son and her friend go into the woods to scatter ashes and discover they have company.
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It was an intense storm that scuttled my first attempt to sail the Desolation Sound area roughly 25 years ago.
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In Stojka's paintings of this final camp, the coldblooded order of Auschwitz has given way to chaotic, even apocalyptic desolation.
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Yet for all the desolation, Saintines also dispels the myth of France as merely a centralised country run from Paris.
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In his memoir, "Magnificent Desolation," he recounts a period of ruinous drinking and clinical depression after his time in space.
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" It is apparently nine months later when he and Fanny go to examine the damage, finding "a scene of desolation.
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Tim Yatras: I guess some people may know me from Austere, or perhaps the Woods of Desolation album Torn Beyond Reason.
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"For many elderly Americans old age is a tragedy, a period of quiet despair, deprivation, desolation and muted rage," he concluded.
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In all of those locations, she used her slender, seemingly vulnerable body as a vessel to embody trauma, fragility and desolation.
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The leader of a machine city squares off against a prophet preaching destruction, as war, death, and desolation sprawl before them.
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The Las Vegas Sun published some word-for-word dialogue between Aldrin and Armstrong, including Aldrin's now-famous description: "magnificent desolation."
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Crossing takes hours and the desolation continues over every ridge, and when night comes we are still not out of it.
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Working once more with the production designer Mark Digby, Mr. Garland again turns interior spaces into emblems of isolation and desolation.
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Instead, they're shot in warm, glowing light, and the compositions are painterly, perfectly arranged, casting the desolation in a dark beauty.
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" Skerrit also pleaded for help before the U.N. General Assembly last week, telling his peers that "the desolation is beyond imagination.
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Between the 1930s and the 1970s, neon signs were a potent American symbol for both glamour and depravity, hope and desolation.
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This anti-authoritarian impulse thrilled the Burning Man co-founder John Law in 1990, who had heard of Desolation Center's myth.
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The book is known above all for its description of the desolation of the landscape and the ugliness of its people.
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Instead, the policy makers should introduce "a New Deal-style government jobs program" that staves off the desolation of permanent unemployment.
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Clearly, in part one, it adds to the feeling of desolation, but in part two, it continues to feel starkly empty.
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For many, his slender bronze figures are a shorthand for the wrought emotion and desolation caused by the horrors of war.
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He escapes to Mars, where he ponders the Red Planet's beautiful human-free desolation, while Earth lurches into nuclear war without him.
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Take the first verse of "Desolation Row," a song that is really a catalog of literary allusions: Cinderella, she seems so easy.
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Its attempt to capture the gang culture of the city's peripheral housing projects—the notorious quartiers nord—lacks genuine menace or desolation.
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The way problem gamblers talk about their plight gives a small insight into their desolation and the wider context of social dysfunction.
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And in Alaska, perhaps thanks to the state's spotty WiFi and general desolation, the movie store has remained something of a standby.
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Its director is the Desolation Center organizer Stuart Swezey, who began booking shows in 1982 as a 21-year-old college dropout.
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I remember once trying to convince a senior Jewish studies scholar that Twain exaggerated the desolation and emptiness of 19th-century Palestine.
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Working a low body count and a slow burn, "Desolation" is a decent short film that's been unwisely expanded to feature length.
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The protagonist fights his way out of the underground tunnels into a world blanketed with desolation and snow, and trod by mutant creatures.
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That reality is reflected in the masses of people who've fled the violence and desolation for other borders, causing an ongoing migration crisis.
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"Legally, anyone desiring to participate in the MM experience called 'DESOLATION,' must watch this entire movie for their safety," the video's description says.
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It's in every "ruin porn" photo montage that seductively lingers on the desolation of crumbling downtown districts and finds "beauty" in privileged detachment.
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"I lost all feeling of my own identity," she writes: I reflected on the desolation of poverty, of destitution, of sickness and sin.
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All he has found so far in the dust and desolation is a guitar his 12-year-old sister had loved to play.
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Fifteen years before the world's highest-grossing festival started, Gary Tovar, the founder of Goldenvoice, which produces Coachella, attended a Desolation Center gig.
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Gray lizards, those heirs of ruin, of sepulchres and desolation, glided in and out among the rocks or lay still and sunned themselves.
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We are dying of the grief we share with all too many defendants, the helplessness and desolation on the other side of silence.
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We are dying of the grief we share with all too many defendants, the helplessness and desolation on the other side of silence.
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Revisiting "After Hours," three decades later, I was impressed by how fondly Mr. Scorsese and the cinematographer Michael Ballhaus captured SoHo's nocturnal desolation.
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The network's correspondent in St. Barthélemy, Eric Rayapin, described a "spectacle of desolation," with the island all but severed from the outside world.
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On the civilian side, this has led to large-scale unemployment and the decay and desolation of many once-prosperous towns and cities.
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"Desolation Row" (223) In which Shakespeare, the Bible, Einstein and Ezra Pound all cram into the same stretch of the ultimate bad neighborhood. 222.
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This week we will safely approach some spicy solar flares that point to the evolution of our habitable planet and the desolation of others.
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He nails the jokes he needs to nail, and deftly sketches Amherst, Ohio as an exemplar of both Small Town America and exurban desolation.
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The cinematography and lighting fit with the show's overall sense of desolation, a depiction of the Neapolitan environment as rubble-filled, overgrown and derelict.
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Many cultures understand this time of year to represent renewal and rebirth, the re-emergence of organic life after the long desolation of winter.
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That particular desolation, of losing what Ms. Kwon calls the joy of believing in God, is one she did not find represented in literature.
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A commentary on the seemingly innate ferocity of young men, Kurland designs these clandestine moments to the paradoxical and raw backdrops of American desolation.
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By no means are all outsider photographs sunk in despair, but bad news bullies good news into submission and scenes of desolation compel attention.
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The most obvious change in his personality was a volatility: good news triggered uncontained outbursts of joy; bad news plunged him into inconsolable desolation.
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The images cannot compete with the alien landscapes of Mars, the glorious rings of Saturn, or even the "magnificent desolation" of the lunar surface.
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Compared to the tired and contrived hyperrealisitic images of desolation and despair we've grown so accustomed to, these paintings of Detroit feel more real.
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The tunes moved between near-silence and operatic projection, between desolation and rage, between meditation and rhythmic drive, and between humility and hard-won pride.
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The painterly series by Italian artist Valerio D'Ospina depicts overcrowded locales with a moody romance tempered with the desolation of navigating a big city alone.
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"Big Sky" has all the sizzle of a British fry-up; Ms Atkinson's evocation of the beauty and desolation of faded seaside resorts is unerring.
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Nothing The Desolation of Smaug had to offer me could possibly top the hilarious behind-the-scenes video of Benedict Cumberbatch mo-capping it, anyway.
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Our Amtrak system is notoriously scuffed and inefficient, but it still gives an American wanderer a generous idea of the country's variety, prosperity, and desolation.
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A video released on Tuesday announcing the attraction's "Desolation" tour promises "a new level of extreme horror" to those with the guts to sign up.
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We're still seeing the show's central characters traverse through the desolation of the old West and the high-tech opulence of the world behind it.
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In Midland and nearby Odessa, centers for the West Texas industry, the buzz of economic growth has replaced the desolation of 2015 and early 2016.
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The desolation of their deaths in this perilous corridor along the border is compounded by another indignity: The identities of these eight men remained unknown.
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But Cave isn't trapped in his sorrow or consumed by it; he has figured out how to live past it, to seek solace after desolation.
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The hieratic manner and pale color scheme recall Puvis de Chavannes, yet the imagery is rougher and starker, hinting at the interior desolation of Expressionism.
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When the group drove around Stony Brook University's campus, however, with its bulky buildings and air of desolation (it was winter break), everyone fell silent.
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Taken as a whole—even when Tulve sings "Undress me / Anytime / Anywhere"—there's an implicit desolation, a sort of fulfilment that feels just out of reach.
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The four men who, for a brief time, would be the antidote to Eilean Mòr's desolation were Joseph Moore, Thomas Marshall, James Ducat, and Donald MacArthur.
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In a gorgeous essay for The Verge, Helena Fitzgerald argues that Snapchat's desolation recaptures some of the strange, emotive magic that made the early internet special.
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At the end Arca sings "Sin Rumbo" ("Aimlessly"), a glacial lament awash in loss and desolation; then there are the sounds of fireworks, louder and louder.
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Impossibly brutal but with an eerie emotional depth, their unique "Meshuggah n'roll" brand of hardcore evoked the desolation of living in a city that lacks identity.
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The first song from their 1986 debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus it was filled with regret and desolation that cast a long shadow over the genre.
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He interviews Desolation Center musicians including Moore and the Einstürzende Neubauten vocalist Blixa Bargeld, as well as enthusiastic concertgoers (one identified as "sorceress," another, "failed visionary").
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While Dark Souls kept us grounded as we trudged through endless misery and desolation, Sekiro sends us flying through the air in more open, inviting environments.
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Take the early instances of "Desolation" or the title track, wherein subdued, doomed instrumental passages give way piercing shrieks rip through black metal tremolo and blast beats.
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Only time will reveal whether Olivier's images are among the last to show Kangbashi in the state of desolation that first put it on the international map.
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The guitars follow simpler structure, and again come laced with blackened hardcore vibrations that only add to the desolation found within the song and its bitter course.
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"The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation," remarked Theodore Roosevelt in his 1902 book Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches.
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The city was the focus of "Roger & Me," a 1989 documentary directed by Michael Moore that examined the desolation left by the disappearance of auto industry jobs.
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Today, that tableau of desolation has been replaced by waves of purple-blue, a sight that has thrilled tourists for decades along the popular southern Route 1.
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That includes several undeveloped blocks of Edgemere, Queens — an area that is beautiful in its desolation — as well as redwoods growing on streets in the East Village.
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The Tehuelche hunter-gatherers who once dwelled here called this moonscape both "the place of desolation" and "the devil's country," and believed that evil spirits possessed it.
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I know I didn't make it to Desolation Sound, and I know too that my mother never showed symptoms of her impending Parkinson's disease while on it.
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" Arising from the desolation of postwar Germany, it was "an attempt to put some kind of order on a musical world after this total disorder had happened.
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If nothing is at stake — if there's no risk of grief and desolation when you come out the other side — how can you ever really feel anything?
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With "Oh, Man", anaïs ponders what role individuals can play in world that seems destined for desolation; "Count to Five" questions the priority of progress against fixing inequality.
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The band returns this week courtesy of 20 Buck Spin with their third full-length record, Desolation, a product of their unified vision and realization of their sound.
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The experiment was held near the isolated Israeli township of Mitzpe Ramon, whose surroundings resemble the Martian environment in its geology, aridity, appearance and desolation, the ministry said.
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The post-war desolation was unlike anything since the Thirty Years War of the 17th century, a religious paroxysm which killed a similar share of the continent's population.
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She also sticks in one too many pretty faces, which stand out amid the area's ominous desolation, its industrial sites and penumbral rooms, bare trees and gray skies.
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As Americans, we go over all the time to other countries to save them from desolation, but we can't take care of our own schools in high-poverty areas?
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In the early and mid 29s, the music underground in Michigan and surrounding Midwestern states constituted a community that fed off the region's desolation, rather than fighting against it.
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The National Park Service website lists Golden Canyon, Dante's View, Desolation Canyon, and other key areas for "A New Hope" fans venturing to stand where their heroes once stood.
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Billing itself as the epicenter for "dark tourism," Chernobyl tours are hoping to lure in travelers drawn to sites with dark histories and an air of death and desolation.
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In 1972, Barren Island—whose name apparently comes not from its long association with desolation but from the Dutch word for "bears"—became part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
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It's not all desolation and mumbled sentences, but the Party Chat sketches are a window into the side of the crack on we so often fail to talk about.
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A sitar riff hangs among frosted soft-rock synths, bells crash in like it's Christmas, and the anxiety and desolation that haunts so much of Burial's music ebbs away.
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Wolas's descriptions of Ashby creating and abandoning work capture that lusty feeling of writing well and that sense of desolation when the product doesn't live up to the vision.
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The facility was less a house of God than an underground parking lot "of a particularly sinister aspect," with its low ceilings, foul odor and atmosphere of bleak desolation.
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I felt at the time a kind of encroaching loneliness and desolation, a feeling of how nightmarish it would be to wind up in a city with no inhabitants.
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The slow, halting melody conveys both his longing and his desolation; a curiously lilting bass line for pizzicato strings seems to mock Ariodante with a hint of Ginevra's fickleness.
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Gicquel turned somber, took out his phone and brought up a panoramic video of Bonito the day after Irma — shattered glass, splintered wood and drenched desolation in every frame.
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As of Sunday morning, the greatest total reported was in Lake Desolation, N.Y., north of Albany and in the southern Adirondack Mountains, where 16 inches fell, Mr. Otto said.
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It always sounds promising on a menu, but ask for a citrus salad when you're out, and it's almost always the same problem: a desolation of Cara Cara oranges.
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Since its launch last year, one of the biggest additions to Fallout 4 has been the ability to construct small towns, little beacons of hope amongst the post-apocalyptic desolation.
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Sometimes it's the music, which is steeped in country-rock and blues, with flickers of indie-rock desolation; sometimes it's her voice, which is sure and conspiratorial, bendy and grounded.
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The poet and short story writer Raymond Carver, son of a sawmill worker, grew up in Yakima and drew heavily on the town's grittiness to enrich his stories of desolation.
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He talks about the desolation to come via automated trucking, yes, but the other figure whom he discusses at length is the 39-year-old woman who works in retail.
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I have to admit that the freshness of the exhibition is constituted in its pairing the soft desolation of Hopper's portraits with work by other artists who were not painters.
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Mr. Wu mostly roams New York like an old-time street photographer, exploring its grandeur and desolation, returning regularly to Trump Tower, as if to a riddle he can't solve.
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Her descriptions of Ashby creating and abandoning work capture that lusty feeling of writing well and that sense of desolation and resignation when the product doesn't match the initial vision.
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The Bellingshausen stationPhoto: Wikimedia user Akulovz (Wikimedia Commons)The Antarctic desolation and cold could be too much for some people—even folks you would think are used to some cold weather.
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The following scenes between the two offer the brilliant post-apocalyptic whiplash the show rarely revels in anymore, where moments of normality are juxtaposed with the desolation of an undead wasteland.
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The tough little gang are trying to find their way out of the zone, but they also feel a strong attachment to the place and its bent rules, its magical desolation.
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Here and there, (and especially on "A Crown of Desolation," which will absolutely have you head-bobbing at your desk), a little bit of burly rock 'n' roll swings on through.
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In that opening shot is the movie in miniature: the emptiness and desolation of dying Texas border towns, barren of life and opportunity, and the desperate acts of its remaining residents.
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Classic Greek hexameters alternate with shorter, bumpier cadences; each return to the left margin allows us just a gasp of air before snapping us back as desolation sweeps in once more.
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Smack dab between eastern Canada's Misery Point and Greenland's Cape Desolation is a place where the thrashing of the Atlantic Ocean's churn sounds about as friendly as the nearby place names.
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The allies lost that battle and the Americans left the Philippines to another desolation — the Japanese — before returning, only to destroy Manila in 1945 and win the war. Pock. Pock. Pock.
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In the current scheme of things, the misuse of PMLA is reminiscent of an ancient Roman phrase - "Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" - which loosely translates to: they create desolation, and call it peace.
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And as in all conflicts, millions of refugees are fleeing the horrors of war, their numbers swelling daily as they're forced to abandon their homes to escape famine and desolation and disease.
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His victory tour on Monday showcased the desolation of the town of Daraya, a longtime rebel stronghold whose remaining residents were bused out last month after an extended siege by government forces.
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It doesn't look much like victory — the scorched rocks, bone-dry corpses of long-dead trees and the hot white sand stretching into the distance speak more of a scene of desolation.
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The lyrics spoke of desolation and isolation, feelings that were difficult to connect to when surrounded by a congenial community of sleeping humans in the cozy warmth of a small downtown theater.
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Gordone drew on his own experiences working at bars in the neighborhood throughout the late 1960s, capturing the sense of desolation among the men and women gathered at his counter to drink.
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The desolation reinforces the player's own solitude, and pushes them to reflect on the loss and horror of these sorts of settings, while also making every moment feel more stark and dangerous.
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The xx's quiet desolation had precedents in British pop, like Everything But the Girl and Young Marble Giants, but the xx also had its own dynamic; there was drama in each pause.
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Weird moments abound in the series, as when Mr. Bell's camera fixes on a forgotten corner to underscore the desolation, and then a geriatric mall-walker appears in frame, doing solitary laps.
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The cold conveyed the desolation of towns and cities whose populations are shrinking as people leave the region for education and work in bustling cities, just as Mr. Chen had done himself.
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The bodies piled in labs, the desolation of a city overtaken by nature, the perfect reproductions of landmarks — an enormous amount of effort and money was put into this part of the game.
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" But it wasn't until he saw future co-star Benedict Cumberbatch's performance as Smaug in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," that he was convinced to take on the villainous role in "Avengers.
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It said the nuclear agreement "had contributed to Middle East peace" and Washington's withdrawal "goes in the direction of escalation which would bring nothing but destruction and war desolation" in the Middle East.
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The noise is mostly excised in favor of lonely drones and gentle ambience swirl delicately offering desolation and hope in near equal measure—making this one an honest document of these end times.
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But its desolation has many complicated layers, thanks in no small part to Blake's unique blend of ambient R&B, electronic music, and a tinge of soul — with warped glitches and moans throughout.
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"Pay in Blood" from 2012 was a crisp, gory threat, and two of Mr. Dylan's most accusatory 1960s songs, "Desolation Row" and "Ballad of a Thin Man," were sped up but remained pitiless.
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Now, in 1921, Pound edited "The Waste Land," cutting down lines devoted to parody and eliminating witticisms, but leaving untouched its mood of despair and desolation, and its message of neo-Christian hope.
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We see her earlier life with her grandfather in San Francisco, in a neighborhood near Ocean Beach so vividly depicted you can smell the salt, see the surfers and feel its sandy desolation.
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We sent photographers to the extremities of the earth, from remote caves in Borneo, above, to the sublime desolation of Namibia's skeleton coast, to find out for The Times Magazine's annual Voyages issue.
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Another format — a worn carpet thrown over some boxes — created terrain of almost Beckettian desolation for subjects to sit on, as a forlorn-looking Alfred Hitchcock did, or lean on, like Peter Ustinov.
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They were voting for the future — a future filled with economic and cultural desolation that would continue to pass them by if they did not take a wrecking ball to the systems around them.
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Some images evoked the same sort of desolation I felt looking at that first photo — solitary figures at the end of a long walkway, the hulking, coppered tunnel at the Arts et Métiers stop.
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The principle of delay works also with Mitchell's rhymes, which are often the off-the-rack, Tin Pan Alley pairings that Dylan would adopt and, in songs like "Desolation Row," deconstruct into prophetic nonsense.
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Another tale of frail connection against vast, desperate backdrops, this debut novel follows two Antarctica enthusiasts brought together by temperament and a shared fascination with the unearthly desolation at the bottom of the world.
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The soundscape couples ominous rumblings with high-pitched bleats, to evoke a post-apocalyptic ruin of a world in which Mr. Norris's witches — adults, this time — shimmy up poles to survey the desolation below.
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The rocket of the title misses the moon and lands on Mars to find Earth's alternative future, a civilization destroyed by atomic warfare — a desolation far more cosmic than that envisioned by Fritz Lang.
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It was arresting, unspeakably beautiful, and yet I felt an odd sense of trepidation at finding myself in this empty hotel on the edge of a desolation almost the size of the United States.
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We started in Comox, on Vancouver Island, then stopped at Squirrel Cove on Cortes Island, before overnighting at just two anchorages along the 37-miles of coastline contained within the Desolation Sound Marine Park.
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Once inside, though, beyond the dust and the desolation, they noticed that colorful late 19th-century floor tiles patterned with extravagant floral and geometric motifs had, miraculously, survived intact in three of the rooms.
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This road is one of the many places on our planet that convey feelings of desolation, hopelessness, and solitude — in fact, see Ontario's Solitude Island, a green land mass just over 300 feet long.
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On Hunted, the band combined doom metal and classic rock tropes to make big riffs and hooks, and while those still exist on Desolation, they're a fraction of what Khemmis tapped into for this record.
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The film is set in grotesque, yellowing interiors, even in Pasqualino's better days—and the concentration camp (set designed by Wertmüller's husband, Enrico Job) is effectively portrayed as a soulless space of desolation and hopelessness.
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Perhaps his greatest technical innovation comes in lengthy tirades like "Desolation Row" and "Idiot Wind," parades of repeated verse-chorus-verse structures that remind me of nothing so much as the epic poems of Homer.
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Ben Reiter takes readers inside the devastating story of cultural collisions and desolation Hideki Irabu experienced after being signed for more than $12 million and hailed as a future face of the franchise in 1997.
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So, with no lack of desolation and astonishment on view, how come the new film pulls you in less sharply than the short one from a dozen years ago, and leaves your heart less scarred?
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From the ashes of a mobile home and RV park, President Donald Trump said Saturday he came to the heart of California's killer wildfire to fully grasp the scale of the desolation wrought on the landscape.
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Benedict Cumberbatch: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Now that we've seen Cumberbatch's full physical manifestation of the villain, we kind of just wish they had put him in a dragon onesie for the film. 8.
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He was set to direct The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2012 and its sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in 2014, but due to studio complications, his role was scaled back to co-writer.
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A lonesomeness that's almost violent The Colour in Anything won't come as a surprise to longtime Blake fans, but it showcases his ability to shed some earlier hesitation and step into his most comfortable place: desolation.
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Rural pre-famine Ireland in all its beauty and desolation is alive on every page of this exquisite novel, though the secondary characters rarely act beyond their defining identities (dismissive doctor, condemnatory priest, kindhearted hired girl).
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It reminded her of a word coined by the environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, solastalgia, which combines solace, desolation and nostalgia to convey the distress of seeing a familiar environment bitterly transformed by drought, fire and flood.
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" In 1902, the Americans razed this land, using scorched-earth tactics against Filipino revolutionaries: Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell had come "to make peace," he claimed, even if that peace "must be the peace of desolation.
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For the final lines about a lover's tears falling like spring rain in a motionless night, the orchestra produced just a whispered spray of sound, leaving Ms. Arnold to gently taper her last note in gorgeous desolation.
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But in this case, for a few moments, with the prisoner's dark eyes locked onto the horizon, his experience of the heat, the desolation of his outpost, and his remorse for his unspeakable crime come to life.
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There's a generous amount of genre-bending going on here, and an overarching theme of desperation and desolation that will feel familiar to those who've been following the band (or their endearingly nihilistic Twitter feed) for awhile.
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The Oxford Book of American Poetry included his song "Desolation Row," in its 2006 edition, and Cambridge University Press released "The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan" in 2009, further cementing his reputation as a brilliant literary stylist.
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"The initial reaction of people living under the flight path is one of despair and desolation," added John Stewart, the chairman of Hacan ClearSkies, a group representing west London residents who are against any expansion of Heathrow.
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The desolation is clearly elucidated in the record's lyrics, but there's also joy in the firework synth bursts and ecstatic drum programming that runs through its bloodstream—there's hints of celebration, even at the end of days.
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The utter desolation and horror of the series' back half is made more potent by how relatively normal things are for the first few episodes, before reality starts to buck and heave like the ever-shifting ice.
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Spanning only a few years in the mid-80s, the Desolation Center happenings were punk concerts that took place in unorthodox locations, such as the Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles, or aboard a chartered whale-watching ship.
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Iraq's foreign ministry called Trump's decision "hasty and rash", and said Washington's withdrawal from the nuclear accord "goes in the direction of escalation which would bring nothing but destruction and the desolation of war" in the Middle East.
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Located in the windswept desolation of the Gobi Desert, the C-Space Project Mars simulation base is one of the first of its kind — a compound designed to accurately replicate the conditions of a crewed mission to Mars.
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In another story, a man with cancer turns his struggle into a kind of permanent media campaign, a pixelated busyness under which the narrator spies desolation and a lesson about how, finally, none of us are linked in.
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In the first, acoustic half, he sang incantatory versions of "Visions of Johanna" and "Desolation Row"; for the second half, the entire band's full-throttled takes on "Like a Rolling Stone" do not always drown out the jeers.
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He often described one particular time at Princess Louisa Inlet, a fjord that's a frequent stopover on the way to Desolation Sound, when they woke to find themselves in fog so dense they could see nothing but white.
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As the exhibition's chronology progresses to the familiar, stick-like figures, a sequence of small pieces is presented evenly spaced behind glass and very dimly lit, befitting work that emits such a sense of stark solitude and desolation.
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And as the second human ever to step on the moon - Armstrong was first down the ladder - Aldrin recounts feeling sure-footed in the one-sixth gravity of the lunar surface while gazing at the "magnificent desolation" around him.
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CS: I can't predict if you'll ever find a man who treats you like an equal, but I can say you're more likely to find one if you seek love from a place of personal power rather than desolation.
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This helps me to understand the odd allure of Alejandra Pizarnik's work for me and my respect for it and its creator: it's not vicarious morbidity, but the ability to be approximate, even companionate, to a vision of such desolation.
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Mary Ann Cuderman, a neighborhood activist who runs a bake shop in her large 19th-century house, said the growing desolation had set off an exodus of families with young children, resulting in the closing of schools, shops and a bank.
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Though each restrained vignette is connected by only a blink-and-you-miss-it narrative delicacy, an active loneliness unites the characters, whose inner desolation seems at least in part a reaction to the barren winter plains of southern Montana.
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The blurry, gritty, nearly vertical plain of dirt and gravel almost reached the Whitney's ceiling, extended 220 feet along the wall and may have come as close as a museum can get to the power and desolation of a real earthwork.
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What's Wrong with It: I mean… Damascus is a constant site of death and destruction as civil and proxy war ravages the entire country with hundreds of thousands risking their lives to escape the desolation and (alleged) government sanctioned chemical attacks.
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Remarking "I have never been loved," he indicates a sudden desolation that stills the house, just as Mr. McKellen's eyes in the closing tableau seem to take in a degree of terror to which the others are either unresponsive — or inured.
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"Sending flowers into space, into desolation where plants could never exist — our challenge was how to capture the beauty of that," the Japanese botanical artist says of the project, which was documented through a series of photographs and entitled Exobiotanica.
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But a crack has opened in the appearance of reality, and through it, like the spate of ills that flow from Pandora's jar, Arimah lets out forces that undo the chilly poise of her protagonist and bring her to desolation.
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It eventually envelops its two very traumatic and traumatized lovers in a desolation both beautiful and absurd, complete with a talking animal and an attendant voice-casting choice that's aesthetically apt as well as a rather fantastic Canadian in joke.
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And yet barely a day after Dr. John's death Thursday at 77, his loss still summons the kind of widespread grief, desolation and ardor that seem out of proportion to those whose memories of his work begin and end with that catchy tune.
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He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
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If the government can retake all of Aleppo and maintain the capital, Damascus, it effectively wins the war, Mr. Tabler said, adding that this would banish the Islamists and more moderate opposition groups to the desolation of sparsely populated areas to the east.
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Not only because of major historical inaccuracies but, even more so, because this was another blatant example of minimizing the utter evil, desolation, humiliation and systematic destruction of the Holocaust, which led to the defining phrase "Never again" and the creation of Israel.
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With other regions increasingly less able to sustain a fossil-fuel extraction economy, a continued addiction to oil will ensure the desolation of the once-pristine Far North as it is transformed into a Pompeo-style arena for burning conflict and civilizational disaster.
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Maybe she would be gone before either of us knew the truth, but I hoped that I would have the opportunity to look into her eyes one more time, with tears of joy and hope rather than tears of grief and desolation.
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The sobriety of Jeddah's architecture, which consists of monolithic malls and Western fast food chains like Krispy Kreme and Applebees, and widespread desolation, belies the truth: behind closed doors, a progressive creative movement is flourishing, led by Saudi Arabia's next generation of artists.
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It's because his show, filled as it is with hope and humor and desolation, evokes what Mr. Sondheim's lyric calls "a city of strangers" — and because Keen Company's current revival Off Broadway is powered by the gorgeous performances of two young unknowns.
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A very different type of urban desolation and transformation is the focus of Ji Dan's 2013 film When the Bough Breaks, which documents the paving over of landfills in the Daxing District of Beijing to make way for new residential mega-developments.
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Women who have left the work force to be caregivers within the home face poverty and desolation in middle age if their marriage breaks down and they have no career path or workplace skills or retirement savings to keep them financially afloat.
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It is thrilling and transportive and includes songs from 2005 to 2017 — private reflections, really — involving crisis, hope, whimsy, desolation, acceptance, and joy (among other emotions) in response to a life that can be messy and turbulent but also full of grace.
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These anarchic desert happenings didn't last long — they ran from 163 to 1985 — and have rarely been celebrated, but now their history is chronicled in a documentary called "Desolation Center" that premieres this week at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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The Cohens and other families relived their pain and desolation in "Since: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103," a documentary by Phil Furey that has been shown at festivals for the last two years and will be shown on television this year.
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For all his debts to British dubstep and to the moody desolation of hip-hop auteurs like RZA (who was a guest on Blake's 2013 album, "Overgrown"), Blake had found a way to create a charged stillness, a forsaken fortress of solitude.
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The Target listing outed additional details, including a "Gold Edition" that comes with Season Pass access to the game's four post-release expansions: Slaughter Tribe Nemesis expansion, Outlaw Tribe Nemesis expansions, The Blade of Galadriel story expansion and The Desolation of Mordor story expansion.
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Last summer the city and Conrail, a railway company, cleared out El Campamento, an open-air heroin market and shooting gallery beneath sunken railway tracks in the Kensington neighbourhood that every day saw scenes of pain and desolation reminiscent of a painting by Hieronymus Bosch.
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There are some like James Kehoe, a 2000-year-old real estate agent and registered Republican, who said he did not recognize Mr. Trump's descriptions of Ohio's economic desolation and liked the idea of showing his two daughters that a woman could be president.
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Antoine Leiris wrote a remarkable social media manifesto of perseverance and vision in the face of the desolation he felt over the loss of his wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, who was killed at the Bataclan, leaving him to raise their then 17-month-old son.
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"Warszawa", the following track, is an ominous synthesizer dirge—possibly inspired by the desolation he saw on a trip to Warsaw, Poland—and the subsequent tracks follow a similar model, all moody, spacious sound landscapes with bits of synthesizer, saxophone, drum machine sprinkled in.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On first seeing the stark simplicity of KC Tidemand's "Emergence" (2015) at [email protected] — a collaboration between the SVA MFA Fine Art Program and El Museo Del Barrio — the feeling that came over me was simultaneous wonder and desolation.
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Wending his way west from Russia — where he captures a sense of its nihilistic excess and colossal disparities, if somewhat in caricature — he describes the desolation of former Communist states on its periphery and disappointed expectations fueling historical amnesia from Eastern Europe to Britain.
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The sort-of sequel to the cult classic Demon's Souls, Dark Souls cemented a formula that defined gaming in the 2010s: ultra-hard difficulty, punishing but recoverable penalties on death, and as much mystery and desolation as is possible to cram into a videogame level.
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Dividing agricultural hinterlands from port cities, and abruptly reducing Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs on either side of the new border to a religious minority, Radcliffe delivered a plan for partition that effectively sentenced millions to death or desolation while bringing him the highest-ranked knighthood.
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Filmmaker Lynette Wallworth takes an aboriginal man's story about 1950s atomic bomb tests and renders it in shots that convey both the life and the desolation of the Australian desert, building to a moment that inspires both awe and terror before bringing viewers back to (virtual) reality.
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Earlier seasons also paved the way for the big formal risk of season five's eulogy; Bob-Waksberg and Hanawalt have always leaned into the elastic potential of animation, using the medium to paint with a wide range of moods, from playfulness and pretentiousness to desolation and profundity.
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" As they ascend to the 15,000-foot plateau, he writes, "We are immediately sobered by the desolation we ride into, its lifeless, lunar magnitude, the dense stacking of scorched, scoured mountains, so unwelcoming, we had quickly learned, that even the Maoists were giving Mustang a wide berth.
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Add to this desolation an early "lean season" — the precarious time between harvests when temperatures soar, rainfall is scant, and hunger, even in good years, is a threat to the area's subsistence farmers and herdsmen — and the stage is set for starvation on a mass scale.
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But in the decade or so before 9/11, there was a generation of "creative delinquents" who thrived in Lower Manhattan's relative desolation—artists like Harmony Korine, who made high art out of debauchery, or Margaret Kilgallen, who turned traditional sign-painting into something fresh and relevant.
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He spent time in remote locations above the Arctic Circle, and translated that desolation and danger into tracks that threaten to blanket the entire frequency spectrum: blizzards of formless noise, bursts of rapid-fire distorted beats, mountainous immovable sustained tones, crashes and blasts and phantom aircraft.
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From that place of safety, we can hold firm against the forces of fear and reaction, and inch by inch, take back our land — bold in the knowledge that no obstacle is too large, no enemy too mighty, no mountain range of desolation and death too insurmountable.
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Writers have used it to denote ruin and desolation; Chekhov, for example, has burdock growing outside the unspeakable hospital of his story 'Ward No. 6,' and Hawthorne marks the decline of his house of seven gables with 'an enormous fertility of burdocks' nestled in its angles.
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In fact, there are still openings for qualified firefighters who are willing to spend up to five months enduring bitter cold (mean temperature 0 degrees F), desolation (2,415 miles from New Zealand), and occasional cabin fever in exchange for living in one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
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As exhausted as I am angry, I've gotten used to seeing the almost C.G.I.-looking photos that appear from around the state, numb to the dystopian desolation and the towering flames that continue to dance along several major freeways, the strewn tires, skeletons of people's homes, decimated forests and abandoned animals.
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Visually sumptuous and unabashedly romantic, the film likely idealizes the period a bit — it's hard to imagine a character like Antonina maintaining a simple but gorgeous wardrobe, and even the war-desolated zoo is beautiful — but it makes a strong contrast with the desolation and dinginess of the city outside the zoo's walls.
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Nearly a century before the memoirist Cheryl Strayed ("Wild") laced up her hiking boots and took a walk on the wild side in the Sierra Nevada mountain range — a precursor to millennials' obsession with forest bathing — Brigman was going on expeditions deep into its Desolation Valley and Donner Summit around Lake Tahoe.
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From the Desert to the Sea: The Desolation Center Experience aims to re-examine the significance of this phenomenon through period photography and video, as well as paintings and sculptures by related artists and musicians including Mike Watt of Minutemen, Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets, Kristine Kryttre, John Tottenham, Bruce Licher, and others.
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I have adopted adult dogs before, and I know there's always a period of adjustment, a time when infinite patience and constant reassurance are required, but I have never seen anything like this silent little dog with Groucho Marx's wild eyebrows, this scruffy, world-weary animal who so often bears a look of desolation.
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This is clearly not Jordano's only take on Detroit — his previous six-year series, Detroit — Unbroken Down, presents sunlit and vital views of the city and its residents — but in a nocturnal mode, Jordano seems to dwell in the desolation, almost exclusively presenting selections in the book from his hundreds of nocturnal photos that are utterly devoid of people.
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Six decades before Arthur Conan Doyle killed the mad commander of the Pole-Star, another writer sent a captain sailing northward, full of hope and Hyperborean convictions: I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. . . .
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From the anguish and barbarity of the torturer in "Eidolons and the Increate" throughout to the cold and barren desert planet atmosphere of "A Crown of Desolation", we hope the listener finds the peaks and valleys of our compositions to be a satisfying emotional reprieve from the sobering peaks and valleys of our own dark reality.
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I had a similar experience to Alissa's: The film didn't fully click for me until it moved into the extended coda, as Robert De Niro's character carries the memory of what he did to someone whom I think he would call a good friend through the years, leading to an existence of crushing isolation and moral desolation.
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"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001) — 92%"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (2002) — 87%"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003) — 94%"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (2012) — 58%"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (2013) — 66%"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" (2014) — 59%
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Without the chaos of humanity to reckon with, he is free to concentrate on the shapes made by buildings as they cut across chalky skies, the shading of entropy across monochrome buildings — painted that way, no doubt, in a cost-saving measure — and the ultra-bright high contrast of artificial lights and "OPEN" signs that seem ironic, given the desolation.
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But there is a lot of fluidity, hybridity, intersectionality and transgression on display here too, that, in the Balkan context, criticizes both the callousness of the Soviet regime that once dominated the region (during the Cold War, most of the countries in the Balkans were ruled by Soviet-supported communist governments), and the superficiality of American materialism and its cultural pop desolation that awaited it.
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The Standard edition includes the standalone game; the Silver edition adds two Orc tribes to expand the Nemesis system further; the Gold edition builds on the Silver edition by including a season pass for the two upcoming story expansions (The Blade of Galadriel and The Desolation of Mordor); and the Mithril edition comes with the usual assortment of collectable statuettes, maps, and fancy cases, along with everything else included in the other versions.
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In my still somewhat delirious condition, I felt that what was needed was someone to celebrate the Via Alpina's vision of the good life—to sing the goulash and polenta, the bunk beds and the benches, the inextricable joys and pains of the trail, the Hobbitish congeniality of it all—as eloquently as Shelley had sung the desolation of the glaciers or Rousseau the uplifting terror of the torrents and the precipices.
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"It takes one to know one," she smilesAnd puts her hands in her back pocketsBette Davis styleAnd in comes Romeo, he's moaning"You Belong to Me I Believe"And someone says, "You're in the wrong place my friendYou better leave"And the only sound that's leftAfter the ambulances goIs Cinderella sweeping upOn Desolation Row This is a song written in what the poet Lucie Brock-Broido would call "long-haired couplets": long lines that rhyme in groups of twos.
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As on the best songs from his 2018 self-titled album, new single "If I Can't Have You" is about failing to grab what you wish was yours: I'm in Toronto and I got this viewBut I might as well be in a hotel roomIt doesn't matter 'cause I'm so consumedSpending all my nights reading texts from you Written by Mendes with Scott Harris, Teddy Geiger and Nate Mercreau (and produced by Mendes and Geiger), this is an exuberant expression of desolation, with melodies and hooks as ecstatic as Abba.
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