Here is the colonial view of Africa, thrumming with sexual exoticism, reflected back on itself to damning effect by an African woman.
Kimball was forced to admit that he did not know that several of the tweets the prosecution had highlighted yesterday – to damning effect – as pointing towards Tsarnaev's radicalisation and violence were actually lyrics from pop songs.
So what damn effect has Edward Snowden had on privacy, now far more than a year after the first revelations from the documents?
Second, there were damning critiques of the effects of neo-liberal globalisation.
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.
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.
It was sufficiently damning on the issue of respondent's guilt or innocence that he stipulated in writing that in effect he had committed the offense charged.
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.
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.
