Ensconced on a desolate corner of Ninth Avenue in the meat-packing district, it resembles, from the outside at least, a shots-and-beer bar for butchers.

He was utterly alone in this desolate corner of the world.

For the thousands of rebel soldiers encamped in this desolate corner of Angola, the end of the country's long civil war seems certain.

Among them is a profile of the cartoonist Ben Katchor, a man who seems to thrive in the city's more desolate corners.

ON a desolate corner of Martin Luther King Jr.

Five police officers confronted Mr. Revell on a desolate corner where the boulevard meets Beach 73d Street.

She walked faster, and at the next desolate corner she turned again toward the distant lights of Whittier.

Gaza represents one of the most scarred and desolate corners of the world.

I'd spent half the night unsuccessfully trying to imagine a thousand-acre Christian amusement park in this particularly desolate corner of the Ozarks.

The young Q cowered in a desolate corner of space, apart from the others, looking distinctly miserable and conflicted.