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desolation

noun as in uninhabitated area; barrenness

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noun as in distress, unhappiness

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The people of the world saw their planet as the astronauts saw it - fragile and beautiful, shining in the desolation of space.

Who better to limn out disgust and desolation now?

Who better to help us limn out these feelings of disgust, rage and desolation right now?

“Let the guilty rejoice and go unpunished, and the innocent suffer ruin and desolation,” she replies.

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