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When D’Amore isn’t speaking — and for most of those three minutes and 40 seconds, she is silent — her body language is desolating.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2019

It is desolating, Monsieur; we had to walk so as to keep our engagement at Chambéry.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

It is desolating to think that a second visit will reveal to me the blindness, the distortions, and the wrong-headedness of my first.

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Bennett, Arnold

There is a wildness in his bloodshot eyes, and a nervous tremor in his bony hand, as it clutches at the curtain for support, that betrays the haunting terror that is desolating him.

From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess

"A fearful one indeed," said Mr. Elliott, "and one that is desolating thousands of homes all over the land."

From Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)