Sentence examples for devastating passage from inspiring English sources
When Nora reads her father's final book — a journal of his late years — she comes across a devastating passage about herself.
More than 40 years after its initial publication, readers could still respond to Vonnegut's cry for sanity and appreciate his famous refrain, "So it goes," signifying the trivial and the devastating passage of all things.
It was a close thing but Hemingway takes the day, not least for that devastating passage: "The world breaks everyone …" Winner: A Farewell to Arms Le Guin rises above the perceived limitations of her genre to produce a thought-provoking tale tinged with melancholy and wonder.
Instructions for a Heatwave featured a devastating passage in which a man, on a beach with his family, discovers that his marriage is over: "He realises that it is the end, their end, standing there on the beach with them, like a third person".
It is an unkempt work turning on devastating passages from the show trial of Nikolai Bukharin during the Stalinist purges of the late 1930s.
Ms. Moore, who had recently had cataracts diagnosed and sometimes used prescription sunglasses to see inside, said that part of the reason it took her so long to finish the novel was that she could not bring herself to write those devastating passages.
The passages are devastating.
Floods, fires and whatever else Mother Nature's wrath may have in store can be equally as devastating -- and simply the passage of time can damage your photos and videos.
Mr. Obama and Republicans in Congress designed the cuts in 2011 to be devastating as a way to prod passage of a more thoughtful deficit reduction approach, but no agreement has been reached.
But I doubt anyone would think twice about this passage without the gently devastating music that accompanies it the vocal line that climbs an octave to "gate" as a descending chromatic line unwinds in the bass.
Having quit the Conservative Party in protest at David Cameron's support for same-sex marriage, he blamed the passage of the law for devastating floods in England.
