Sentence examples for devastating affair from inspiring English sources

And yet, "Time and Life" wasn't a wrenching, devastating affair; it was quite the opposite.

Using the passage of time as a soft pedal, she gentles the impact of a devastating affair, creating the record of a passion more safely reread than relived.

Alastair Reid, who is still alive, has enjoyed a long career as a poet, a writer for the New Yorker and an acclaimed translator of South American poets, but his devastating affair with Callas did not last.

"The chases are breakneck, devastating affairs," the review continued.

The book is sad and sexy and weirdly romantic all at the same time a devastating love affair that blurs the line between artist and subject, and makes you feel like a creepy voyeur in the best way possible.

Libération, a left-leaning newspaper, called the affair "devastating" for him, as it showed the limits of compromise.

In many respects, despite its meticulous research into Cretan culture, Hislop has written a beach novel predictably packed with family sagas, doomed love affairs, devastating secrets.

Broadwell admits the scandal surrounding the affair was "devastating," but said her "awesome family" and "wonderful community" have helped with her "rehabilitation.

While a physical affair would be devastating and a breach of trust, the betrayal of an emotional affair for me is something you cannot come back from.

Their lives become complicated when Frances falls in love with Lilian, and an illicit affair leads to devastating disturbances.

It grew into a provocative tale of a Depression-era family struggling with poverty, mortality and shadowy behavior, and the teenage daughter whose secret affair has both devastating and strangely reparative effects on them.