Sentence examples for ever devoid from inspiring English sources

The inverse is true as well: no documentary, whatever its claims to objective reportage, is ever devoid of manipulation, since a controlling hand is evident in even the most routine matters of camera placement and shot selection.

On the contrary, few analytical theories are altogether devoid of normative elements and no normative theory is ever devoid of analytical elements.

The argument that art is ever devoid of politics and (at least implicit) moral judgments is either naïve or disingenuous and my critic doesn't strike me as the former.

The devastated landscape of the upper slopes was like nowhere I'd ever been, devoid of vegetation; it felt as if I was on the surface of the moon.

I feel like this is one of the most moving pieces of music I have ever heard; completely devoid beats, and slightly jazzy.

Not many people believe we will ever have a world devoid of complaints.

Citing the famous passage at the end of the "Education," which must be one of the bleakest elegies ever written — seven telescopic sentences devoid of embellishment that sum up the futility of Frédéric's later life — Wall notes that Flaubert is "showing his successors how to smuggle their old Romantic contraband into a modern realist novel".

Perhaps we're so crushed by it, and the drudge of living on less money in an ever more expensive world, spiritually devoid, defining ourselves with what we have not who we are, that we need the crutch.

From this has descended a confused identity and any number of ills: mall-like, low-functioning new wings and expansions; museum bookstores largely devoid of books; ever-larger departments of "education''; and boards of trustees too willing to approve impulse sales from the permanent collection or to siphon authority from seasoned curators.

Though his play has been devoid of carefree excitement ever since those near misses in the majors in 2007 and 2008.

We defended ever-deeper integration and ever-wider federalism; a uniform, homogeneous Europe, devoid of identities.