It is similar to the intense loss and devastation that homesick children feel.
But it's also fun to revisit the original 1979 "Mad Max" and its '80s sequels "The Road Warrior" and "Beyond Thunderdome," to see the birth of Mel Gibson as a movie star and to marvel at how prescient Miller's vision of a future marked by environmental devastation and intense factionalism has turned out to be.
When Kushner finally showed up, we spent an intense hour discussing the devastations of the epidemic, still raging though the surrounding neighbourhoods of Lower Manhattan.
That's why the devastation was so intense because nobody was expecting it and, yes, it's just terrible.
Though the tropical island nation in the Indian Ocean frequently experiences intense monsoons and flooding, this year's devastation was unusually fierce for so early in the rainy season.
The financial devastation of Enron employees' retirement accounts has created intense political pressure to protect workers from rules and practices that leave them exposed to the aftershocks of their employer's fraud or business problems.
"It's the intense drought that causes the greatest human casualties and crop devastation," said writer and historian Mike Davis, author of "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World".
In recent years, repeated cycles of intense drought followed by flash floods have led to deaths and the devastation of local infrastructure.
Unfortunately, we are going to have to brace for more frequent and intense storms, along with other extreme weather events like droughts, heatwaves -- and the unfortunate devastation they entail, from rising food prices to damaging wildfires.
In Gaza, scenes of devastation were discovered by those who returned to areas which had been the centre of particularly intense fighting, such as Shujai'iya, Beit Hanoun and around Khan Younis.
