All 9 Uses
desolate
in
Heart of Darkness
(Edited)
- In about forty-five seconds I found myself again in the waiting-room with the compassionate secretary, who, full of desolation and sympathy, made me sign some document.
Chpt 1desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- It was a distinct glimpse: the dug-out, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home—perhaps; setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness, towards his empty and desolate station.
Chpt 2 *desolate = empty, lonely, providing no support
- Before it stopped running with a muffled rattle, a cry, a very loud cry, as of infinite desolation, soared slowly in the opaque air.
Chpt 2desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- 'It is very serious,' said the manager's voice behind me; 'I would be desolated if anything should happen to Mr. Kurtz before we came up.'
Chpt 2desolated = made feel extremely sad or miserable--often with loneliness
- I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life….
Chpt 2desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings.
Chpt 3
- There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate exclamations, completed by shrugs, in interrupted phrases, in hints ending in deep sighs.
Chpt 3desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
- But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time.
Chpt 3desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- the sound of her low voice seemed to have the accompaniment of all the other sounds, full of mystery, desolation, and sorrow, I had ever heard
Chpt 3 *desolation = extreme sorrow and loneliness
Definitions:
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(1)
(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely
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(2)
(desolate as in: a desolate place) empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
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(3)
(desolate as in: desolated the region) destroyed; or emptied of people; or emptied of most plants and animals
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)