Sentence examples for devastating close from inspiring English sources

Sadly, she was disabled by a severe stroke soon afterwards, an event that brought her career to a sudden, devastating close.

As Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost in 1984, she often stood apart from the banter, and a few years later she brought Nicholas Hytner's RSC production of Measure for Measure to a devastating close.

The piquant desperation of "Sober" and the bitter defiance of "Opiate" came through loud and clear, and the group's rendering of "Eulogy," the standout track from the new "Aenima" album, was incandescent, building from a quiet percussive introduction to a devastating close.

Since you will probably only be in your base, the shotgun is a good choice because of its devastating close range power.

Christopher Oram's design, by placing an enlarged TV screen above the interview, yields devastating close-ups of Nixon's crumbling confession.

Lee returned to The Birth of a Nation in his minstrel satire Bamboozled (2000), including the courthouse clip in a devastating closing montage.

All of which, to bring us back to Christmas, could apply to hearing Fairytale of New York over and over again – but I'll never tire of hearing that devastating closing verse.

"The Handmaid's Tale" is essentially shot as one long horror film, complete with shaky camera work and a lot of devastating close-up shots on Offred/June's eyes.

They have lost a loving, devoted husband and father – devastating their close knit family, all for the price of three pizzas.

With a high rate of fire and a 30-round magazine, these weapons can be devastating at close range.

Campbell knew that his heavy carronades were devastating at close range, and had ordered them to be double-shotted, meaning that each carronade carried twice the ordinary number of missiles.