All 3 Uses of
desolate
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- His soul traversed a period of desolation in which the sacraments themselves seemed to have turned into dried-up sources.†
Chpt 4 *
- His own head was unbent for his thoughts wandered abroad and whether he looked around the little class of students or out of the window across the desolate gardens of the green an odour assailed him of cheerless cellar-damp and decay.†
Chpt 5
- A desolating pity began to fall like dew upon his easily embittered heart for this faithful serving-man of the knightly Loyola, for this half-brother of the clergy, more venal than they in speech, more steadfast of soul than they, one whom he would never call his ghostly father; and he thought how this man and his companions had earned the name of worldlings at the hands not of the unworldly only but of the worldly also for having pleaded, during all their history, at the bar of God's…†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely