Sentence examples for in the face of devastation from inspiring English sources

The women forge friendships as they share their losses and debate how best to go on with their lives in the face of devastation.

("After a massive, out-of-season swarm of Texas tornadoes levels weather scientist Ethan Walker's home on Christmas Eve," the film's news release says, "he must find courage in the face of devastation to help restore his marriage," not to mention rescue his missing children).

The whole world has witnessed Japan's dignity and grace in the face of devastation.

Just the fact that it exists creates hope and possibility in the face of devastation and despair.

Sometimes in the face of devastation we want to reassure the person going through it that it will be okay or that they will one day feel better.

There is the miracle of people continuing to strive for a happier world even in the face of devastation and grief.

American insouciance in the face of that devastation is fomenting anti-Americanism.

Millions of those now stranded are still without power.In the face of such devastation, both presidential candidates have withdrawn from the campaign trail.

As a football mom, I was pleased that you praised students at South Plaquemines High School in Louisiana for their mettle in the face of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina ("Homecoming Is a Victory, by Any Definition," Oct. 25).

And if we hadn't just flown more than a hundred thousand sorties over a distant place writer would give in more to grief about all these trees, but in the face of that devastation this sort of rare and unmalicious natural catastrophe, in which nobody dies(not so far, anyway),..makes writer think that we over here have got off very easily.

In his deft prose, rife with morbid imagery, Cormac McCarthy spells out metaphors that offer bleak hope in the face of total devastation and provide wisdom beyond value, thus making perhaps the most important dystopian novel of the early 21st century.