Sentence examples for damning effect from inspiring English sources
Here is the colonial view of Africa, thrumming with sexual exoticism, reflected back on itself to damning effect by an African woman.
The Cardinal believes that a "fluffy, superficial kind of catechetical approach to the question of human sexuality and the nature of the marital relationship" over the years has had an equally damning effect on men, where men were not taught they are made in the image of God.
On Tuesday, one day after Ahmadinejad's speech in New York, the damning effect of the president's public image on Iran's economy proved potent.
Disappointment and depression can have a damning effect on life and feeds the feeling that the circumstances will never improve.
A nude picture, an off-color joke, a badly angled selfie: all of these can having a damning effect on a Facebook or Twitter profile.
Physical and verbal abuses that have the same damning effects as domestic abuse within a household does.
So what damn effect has Edward Snowden had on privacy, now far more than a year after the first revelations from the documents?
All Eliot could manage, in 1928, was the confession that he found himself "seldom interested", these days, in what his old friend and colleague was saying, "only in the way he says it". Lewis, the most wildly inventive member of the original gang, and among the neediest, had got into the habit of damning to rather different effect.
During the 1980s and '90s, the consumer advocacy group published, via its highly-respected Consumer Reports, damning science about the effects of secondhand smoke, which put it in Big Tobacco's crosshairs.
Not at all, she answered briskly: since she went to Heaven, God, in his mercy, had changed her in such a way that the sufferings of the damned had no effect on her.
Just hold out for the evening's penultimate scene in which the ancient Grand Inquisitor (John Rogan in a superbly incisive quick sketch) finally makes his appearance, providing the last, damning word on the warping effects of playing God.
