The judges were acknowledging that this demanding, obscure and austerely self-contained writer had become the laureate of an age that feels suffocated by its desolating sense of nothingness.
This cup, they wrote, this was the cup that was in the Lord’s hand, the cup of divine judgment. It was, they said, a cup of desolation, a cup that would contain such judgment that it would undo those ...
While a bar barons rebellion is desolating ten thousand homes; while treason is writing her terrible records in tears and blood over a continent; while our friends are murdered treacherously by ...
The writings are on the wall that the worst is yet to come. There is a desolation of the land law which regulates and protects tribal land in the State. We are desolating it further by our own doings ...