Alan Shearer, for a while little more than a shrug, a frown, a shirt, is actually pretty good these days, even strangely edgy, like the kind of man who might grab your wrist at the bus top and hiss something devastating into your face before being bundled away by passers-by.
Long-term solutions lie in tackling global warming, rising sea levels, pollution and overharvesting; in the short term we can nurse back devastated ecosystems into economically productive habitats.
But when Sarita discovers her infertility several months into the marriage, she is devastated and sinks into despondency and a sense of failure from which she never fully recovers.
Hero, devastated, flung herself into the sea.
Even as a teenage boy, I was devastated and burst into tears.
McAlpine said the Newsnight investigation, which has fuelled a crisis at the corporation and led to the resignation of the BBC director general George Entwistle, had left him devastated and got "into his soul".
Origo, devastated, threw herself into a writing career: her biography of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi was published in 1935; a biography of Cola di Rienzo, a fourteenth-century politician and megalomaniac, was published three years later.
But with protesters gathering outside Parliament's doors, the measure's passage stirred immediate concerns about a long summer of social unrest that could undermine the government's resolve, push the already devastated Greek economy into deeper recession and put the $140 billion rescue package in jeopardy.
What if instead, a members' club could be just one part of a humanist ecosystem that offered members three things: a Grade I-listed sanctuary (with a secluded garden and private chapel) in the bustling heart of Soho, a connection to the rich history of the area and the city, and the chance to reintegrate those devastated by homelessness into sustained employment?
There was the porter, who said: 'The Jew Haber is not allowed in here.'" Haber resigned, devastated, went briefly into exile, and died of a heart attack in 1934.
