Yet there was no devastation in that neighborhood.
The myth is that amid the visual splendors of transcendental nature there is no "refuse" — no devastation, no collapse, no erosion, no rot; no (seeming) effort, struggle, defeat, death.
Mr Ragati, who has lost his Point Pleasant beach house, is no stranger to devastation.
At lunch, I asked Pak, "If your country would be destroyed in a nuclear exchange, why are you really entertaining the idea?" North Korea, he said, is no stranger to devastation: "We've been through it twice before.
There is no evading the stylistic devastation it represents.
Players spoke in muted tones, but unlike after previous disappointments against the Atlanta Braves, there was no sense of devastation.
Jefferson was no stranger to devastation and misfortune, losing his wife of eleven years, Martha, and seeing only two of his six children with her reach adulthood.
There was no sign of the devastation that had visited the area just a few hours earlier.
While there is evidence that much of the Northern Hemisphere became a virtual wasteland (as might be expected, given that the meteorite struck from the southeast, throwing debris to the north), there has been no sign of similar devastation of plant life in the south.
There are no words for the devastation caused by Chernobyl.
