| But while Neil Patel's barroom set has a low-life desolateness that Mack the Knife might have appreciated, don't expect much in the way of lurid thrills. |
| Imagine if someone put a new, one-story school on the moon, and you'll appreciate the rocky desolateness of this landscape. |
| Its newness and desolateness of appearance revolted me, just then. |
| Part of what was startling about the book was its desolateness, its apparent lack of pleasure in anything to do with the sport. |
| There was a kind of desolateness in our life, though we did not understand it at the time. |
| The gulls seemed uneasy, in spite of the desolateness of the broad expanse of heaving swell. |
