Sentence examples for a devastating appraisal from inspiring English sources

Her banned cycle of poems, "Requiem," written during the Stalin era and not published in full in Russia until 1987, is a devastating appraisal of the Stalinist terror and includes, in this translation by A. S. Kline, these bitter and ringing lines: Seventeen months I've pleaded for you to come home.

Currently a judge on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," Lythgoe has said that "Idol" needs an overhaul after serious ratings erosion this past season, the last for the show's longtime star, Simon Cowell, a British music executive known for his tart and often devastating appraisals of contestants.

IT IS a devastating prospect.

Then a devastating tsunami followed.

It was a devastating dismissal.

It was a devastating presentation.

This was a devastating shock.

This was a devastating blow.

It was a devastating blow.

They have a devastating emotional force.

The prosecutors presented a devastating case.