The state of being without clothing or covering of any kind.
A bleak and desolate atmosphere.
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Examples for "desolation "
Examples for "desolation "
1 The desolation was gone; the desert bloomed and blossomed as the rose.
2 Their voice sings in the windows, and desolation is in the thresholds.
3 It was an hour of desolation ; it was the day of doom.
4 The desolation of the picture of England in my mind grew congenial.
5 Even the sawdust pyramids and the stumps are magnificent in their desolation .
1 They returned his gaze, the bleakness in their eyes matching his own.
2 Neither this nor the cold wind or the bleakness dampened his spirits.
3 In the bleakness of their absence he always felt lonelier than before.
4 In its bleakness and beauty, it was a day for John McGahern.
5 To block out the vast sky in all its beauty and bleakness .
1 The bareness of extreme poverty marked everything on which my eyes rested.
2 Her feet, her little feet - their bareness no longer troubled her-leftthe ground.
3 The hospital-like bareness of the room evinced a simple taste in the owner.
4 The purple shadows of the palm-trees intensified the bareness of the sunny desert.
5 The bareness of the squalid room made the pain of it more poignant.
Characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive.
1 The scrutator looked down at his grizzled nakedness , grinned, and said, 'Quite!'
2 Her nakedness isn't going to bring about change or stop police brutality.
3 Their nakedness grabbed national headlines and forced the country to pay attention.
4 But I saw the grounds now in their nakedness because I understood.
5 There was seductiveness for Elisaveta in the nakedness of these impetuous bodies.
6 In this respect the soul comes into the world 'in utter nakedness ' .
7 It was intrusive, looking at a nakedness that should not be seen.
8 Their bread shall feed our famishing country; their wool clothe its nakedness .
9 He shows no sign of recognition, no judgment about Raffe's near nakedness .
10 We stand face to face with human nature in its primitive nakedness .
11 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her daughter.
12 The females were early debased, and presented spectacles of nakedness and misery.
13 Our poverty and nakedness is in this respect, I think, beyond dispute.
14 There were no tokens of the rough nakedness that he had expected.
15 Born and trained to nakedness , Nau-hau trod the deck boldly and unashamed.
16 Lorenzi stood before him, splendid in his nakedness like a young god.
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