The phrase "a kind of devastation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that causes significant destruction or emotional turmoil, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The storm left behind a kind of devastation that the community had never experienced before."
Alternatives: "a form of destruction" or "a type of ruin".
In such moments natural beauty becomes a kind of devastation – it is pure encounter, too compressed in time and space to be properly contained.
What's going on in them is wildly different in scale and in kind, for one thing — accident, outrage, atrocity — and even picturing them alongside one another is a kind of devastation, a collapse of meaning.
To lose, in one fell swoop, the entire family you've been working with for years, everything you've spent twenty years building, and the home in which you all worked, and under the most unjust circumstances, is a kind of devastation I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
It was a kind of devastation that I had never seen before.
"We have strip mines and roadsides and all kinds of devastation created by human activities".
Minutes later, Mr. Francis seemed to regain his bearing and asked Mr. Defreitas a more pointed question: "What kind of devastation do you think will happen?" Mr. Defreitas, who had worked at the airport as a cargo handler and prided himself on his knowledge of the area, needed little prompting to offer his vision.
As water rose Friday in Plano, Ill., around the Farnsworth House, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951, officials from the National Trust for Historic Preservation used a boat to try to protect the house and its furnishings from the kind of devastation that occurred during a severe flood in 1996.
In his show at the James Cohan Gallery, earlier this year, Apollo, Zeus, and Poseidon were ballerinas, globe-headed and enraged in the center galleries, while a horrifyingly quaint Victorian astronaut-like human made his way through some kind of devastation in the front room, a disconcertingly luxurious meditation on ecological devastation.
Two soldiers were treated for minor exposure and released, hardly the kind of devastation one expects from a lethal chemical weapon.
Gulla never signed a nondisclosure agreement, and says he's chosen to stay vocal to help protect others from the same kind of devastation he experienced after signing a lease in 2002 -- one of the very first for the Marcellus.
