Sentence examples for devastating relationship from inspiring English sources

Without giving too much away, this video includes a wedding proposal, a drunk fly, and devastating relationship turmoil.

Art Pepper, who suffered a fatal stroke earlier this year, had a much more intimate and devastating relationship with drugs.

You could say that all tragedy is about the process of discovery, of learning that the present has a surprising and often devastating relationship to the past: King Oedipus, faced with a plague on his city, is told by an oracle that he must find the killer of the previous king, only to learn, as the play unfolds, that it was he.

Three songs Boucher wrote in January-February 2010 -- "Not Fooling Around," "Warning Bell" and "None the Wiser" -- were inspired by the sorrow she felt while witnessing other devastating relationships fall apart.

His outspokenness made him the universal choice when, after unification, Germany tackled the daunting task of opening the infamous Stasi files — a fraught undertaking that was sure to devastate relationships and sunder families.

What all that glorification leaves out is the way alcohol can destroy lives -- literally, in traffic and other accidents, or more insidiously through liver disease and other health problems, lost income, lost futures and devastated relationships.

In that ghostly setting — the war had just ended, and the city was devastated — their relationship began.

Presley was devastated; their relationship had remained extremely close even into his adulthood, they would use baby talk with each other and Presley would address her with pet names.

"The result would have been devastating for our relationship with an important country with whom we cooperate closely on terrorism, on security, on the Middle East peace process," Mr. Blair said at a news conference.

"I can absolutely assure you that there is no doubt whatever in my mind - and I think in those of any of the people who have looked at this issue - that, having proceeded with this, the result would have been devastating for our relationship with an important country with whom we cooperate closely on terrorism, on security, on the Middle East peace process," he said.

I want to show how this silence can be devastating to a relationship.