Sentence examples for devastating character from inspiring English sources

And what devastating character assassinations.

One by one, with regular recourse to a popular four-letter word, Keane drunkenly gave them a sneak preview of the devastating character assassination he would perform on Mick McCarthy in Saipan a few years later.

This change in the nation's collective psychology also stems from a delayed recognition of the devastating character of France's military defeat in 1940, and the impact of two further catastrophes that were not fully internalised: the loss of Indochina and the withdrawal from Algeria.

He wrote devastating little character sketches that began with sentences like "Fareed is a very lazy worker who does not keep his appointments; he is always late".

In Italy, these have always been hair-raisingly complex, demanding, frustrating, or, in Parks's more tactfully devastating phrase, "character-forming"; I used to sit at the feet of my Italian friends and ask them, "tell me again about the time you needed a new phone line," shivering delightedly in anticipation, like a child being told a favourite spine-chiller on Halloween.

So there is no explanation for that exquisite Pinteresque moment when the Christopher Walken character, in the midst of small talk, suddenly devastates the Rupert Everett character with a punch in the stomach.

"Pastoral" is filled with a string of quietly devastating scenes in which characters speak their truths in ways that cut to the bone and spookily lay the groundwork for events to follow.

In the story, the killer is set free due to a plea bargain, a move which leaves Foxx's character devastated and seeking revenge.

Former "Grey's" star Katherine Heigl, told "Entertainment Tonight" she was "devastated" by the character's death, adding, "I just can't imagine the show without McDreamy.

This final novel by Haruf, who died last November, is a delicate, sneakily devastating evocation of place and character.

The scintillating tension between Lady Mary and new character Henry Talbot (a devastating Matthew Goode, Dancing on the Edge) quite makes up for this otherwise rather bloated Christmas at Downton.