Sentence examples for desperately damaging from inspiring English sources

"You have a real division between the liberal and conservative Catholics—it's desperately damaging to the church... Francis is trying to navigate that".

"I never really understood until recently how my one life that I will ever have was so desperately damaged by my own behavior," he says, one knee clasped for ballast.

Ms. Henderson's Eva lacks any such texture — to say nothing of Ms. Ullmann's natural radiance — and seems less an irrevocably damaged, desperately needy girl-woman than a schoolmarmy harpy efficiently sticking the knife in.

The "Tory toff" card, if played subtly rather than shrieked desperately by Labour, may damage Mr Cameron.

The only things that ever seem to come out of freebasing are poverty and constant restlessness, neither of which are very cool, unless you're a well-adjusted, middle class student desperately trying to appear damaged.

Labour HQ's interference could damage the party's chances in seats it desperately needs to win, in an election where one or two seats could determine who takes No 10.

If you have damaged nails, they split, crack, never grow, and desperately need help.

Nepal – one of the world's poorest countries even before the disaster – desperately needs assistance to rebuild homes, schools and hospitals destroyed or damaged by the earthquakes.

"My son and all those young activists damaged by Clarke and his supporters deserve better than those desperately clinging to the greasy pole within CCHQ".

The people of Dungarvan desperately wanted the journalists to go away; they realized that Kennedy had unwittingly damaged the marriage prospects of all their sons.

These were genuinely combustible performances, two people desperately tearing at each other as it dawns that they are both so damaged by the past that it's impossible for them even to make love, still less a future.