Sentence examples for idea of devastation from inspiring English sources

Earlier in the day, the French FM toured the quake-hit town of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan adminsitered Kashmir, in order to gain an idea of devastation caused by the earthquake.

But even after two of the jets had ploughed into the World Trade Centre less than an hour later, Americans still had no idea of the scale of devastation that was yet to unfold upon them.

As someone who has lived in that city off and on, I knew that returning there would be difficult, but I had no idea of the level of devastation.

We had no idea of the extent of devastation.

The idea of ethnic cleansing and physical devastation is ever present.

Tuesday night, when we had less idea of the scope of the devastation, there was singing all over town: songs with lyrics like "O Lord, keep me close to you" and "Forgive me, Jesus".

Yet, to this day, when I see photographs or documentary films dating from the war I feel as if I were its child, so to speak, as if those horrors I did not... Today, it is hard to form an even partly adequate idea of the extent of the devastation suffered by the cities of Germany in the last years of the Second World War, harder still to think about the horrors involved in that devastation.

To get an idea of the scale of the devastation meted out on Berlin, imagine yourself in London's Oxford Circus and envision what it would be like if not a single building were left standing between there and the Palace of Westminster (which was itself a ruin).

The tremendous effort he put into getting his brownstone and staying there is emblematic of how powerful the idea of owning a home is, and why it drove so many people to the point of devastation.

Political pundits might be alienated by the idea of a hard-news story like the devastation in Iraq being treated in a poetic, "feminine" manner.

Did he recoil at the idea of any aesthetic response to horror and devastation on that scale?