Sentence examples for moral devastation from inspiring English sources

The eruption of the foretold devastation — the floods, which are shown in documentary images — corresponds to the moral devastation that surrounds the boy's desperate mission.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for Tony Blair and George Bush to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague and delivered a damning critique of the physical and moral devastation caused by the Iraq war.

With his masterly use of visual motifs — the train and the fog of the opening sequence reappear periodically with increasing significance — and slow, contemplative rhythms, he gives the comedy a lyrical dimension, building to a final sense of moral devastation.

"The true state of the material and moral devastation in which the whole country found itself could not be described because of a conspiracy of silence that applied equally to all".

The shock in the movie is a moral shock: the devastation of cities, the loss of lives, the enormity of the rampaging beasts, the fearsome sense of impotence before an existential threat to humankind.

Much more successful was Bagheria, Dacia Maraini's autobiographical account of her childhood in Sicily in the late '40s, an evocation of the island's natural beauty and, at the same time, an impassioned denunciation of its more recent moral and environmental devastation.

Among other targets, terrorism attacks thought; the dinner party in "Omnium Gatherum" is a paradigm of intellectual devastation and moral paralysis.

And yet, still this diverse and powerful interreligious coalition of people of faith was ignored and the moral, strategic and fiscal devastation of the Iraq War continued.

I think we make and take-in art to help us deal with loss, complexity, devastation, loneliness, and moral choices.

We have the opportunity to map out a strategy for divesting from fossil fuels in a phased manner that protects our financial interests and meets our moral obligation to future generations to stop the devastation of climate change.

But in this book, his exquisitely mistuned consciousness seems a form of dandyism — a moral and spiritual luxury item in a world of devastation.