Sentence examples for forms of devastation from inspiring English sources

Among the many forms of devastation wreaked on cities globally during the 20th century, suburban development may seem slight.

We need to remind ourselves that Hurricane Katrina and Haiti's earthquake only magnify the slow forms of devastation happening each day.

In many ways, the financial devastation of his life is as astonishing as the emotional devastation.

"Nothing could prepare you for that kind of devastation".

As we gawk, peer and crane, decipher the titles and mull over the allusions — all the while avoiding collisions with other similarly engaged people — we form a cast of extras trapped in some museum of devastation.

'The sordidness and the anguish implied by some of the scenes of devastation will cause one to invent forms which are the pictorial essence of sordidness and anguish,' he said in a 1941 radio discussion.

However, world citrus industry is frequently confronted with risk of devastation by a variety of biotic or abiotic stresses.

But in this book, his exquisitely mistuned consciousness seems a form of dandyism — a moral and spiritual luxury item in a world of devastation.

By then, the channel is marvelling at the scale of devastation and loss of life (surely a more qualified form of entertainment, but, we must be honest, a real one nonetheless) and turning our attention to the next upcoming storm.

It was a time of devastation in northern Mali: first the rebels pillaged the town, then the jihadis imposed a brutal form of sharia law on the population.

Honoring new forms of beauty that may emerge from the devastation?