Sentence examples for is as devoid from inspiring English sources

Florida's sandy soil, Mr. Estabrook writes, is as devoid of plant nutrients as a pile of moon rocks.

This behavior is rendered with a naturalness that is as devoid of discernible artifice as any performance I've ever seen onstage.

He knows what he knows so surely, so completely, that he cannot think against himself; no poet besides Milton is as devoid of humor.

Her exquisite oval face — framed by short, lank, unwashed-looking hair — is as devoid of a diva's coquetry as it is of makeup.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS TAETE Jamie is a wiry English lad who moved to America because it's the only country that is as devoid of culture as his dead-end hometown.

Everything in the first chapter, for instance, initially comes across as so banal — the rooms are as devoid of personality as the characters — that it takes a while for the chill to set in.

Instead I showed one of them, Damian Jewan Lee, who plays Vernon, 'The Thin Blue Line,' because I wanted Vernon to be as devoid of hope as that man on death row was".

He compares his existence with that of animals – and questions whether animals are as devoid of consciousness as philosophers claim: "What do we know about the thoughts of a bear?

"He was as devoid of the talent for self-promotion as Alex was gifted at it". An unassuming graduate of Andover and Princeton, he encouraged his wife to write and sent her first story to his friend William Maxwell at The New Yorker, who published it in the mid-60's.

Unless something is done to reverse the decline in Europe's fish stock, the oceans here will be as devoid of life as deserts are in just four decades from now, President Grimsson said.

Acted without affect in settings that are as devoid of humanity as the space station in '2001,' this game plays out with cold precision but little team spirit".