All 4 Uses of
desolate
in
Catch-22
- It was a desolate, cratered face, sooty with care like an abandoned mining town.†
Chpt 6 *
- The feeling of desolation persisted when they turned off the road at the squadron.†
Chpt 14
- He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children.†
Chpt 25
- Her desolation was pathetic as she sat with her tempestuous, proud, lovely head bowed, her shoulders sagging, her spirit melting.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely