| The colours of unreachable nebulas mingled with the darkness and desolation of space. |
| Delhi is a city of magnificence and desolation, grandeur and history, all seeped in red and purple. |
| If this is the real world, away from all the carnage and desolation, than this cannot be for real. |
| The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle. |
| The food of a nation had perished, and a desolation unexampled in modern times came down upon the land. |
| The young wife's gaunt desolation is one of the most haunting aspects of the novel. |
