Sentence examples for morally devastating from inspiring English sources

To fail to do that, especially in the eyes of a child, desperate for moral order and a way out of war's chaos, is morally devastating.

The room was packed with survivors who knew Bomba's anguish, even if their experience had not been as extreme or as morally devastating as his.

It was the U.S. that reached out to the Germans after the morally devastating World War II.

According to Kathie, Spalding was "morally devastated" by their words.

And — again, as with Riis — this acquaintance is earned by way of more than pictures and homespun snippets: the pages of "You Have Seen Their Faces" are split almost evenly between text and image; Caldwell goes on at length, magisterial and morally devastated at turns, providing a real accounting of American exploitation, and of its casualties.

And again, as with Riis this acquaintance is earned by way of more than pictures and homespun snippets: the pages of "You Have Seen Their Faces" are split almost evenly between text and image; Caldwell goes on at length, magisterial and morally devastated at turns, providing a real accounting of American exploitation, and of its casualties.

This devastating film persuasively portrays them as finer, more morally sturdy people than the cynical chain of command that lied to them and used their son as a propaganda tool.

Standing amid the debris of a Europe morally, politically and physically devastated by the second world war, Winston Churchill enthused in 1946: "If Europe were once united... there would be no limit to the happiness, to the prosperity and the glory which its 400 million people would enjoy".

Greg Smith, a Goldman Sachs director in London, resigned after publishing a devastating open letter in the New York Times accusing senior staff of being "morally bankrupt".

Handel views her world as morally fallible, but also mourns the eventual passing of its beauty in music of devastating poignancy.

Particularly promising is a new awareness among many Palestinians that suicide bombings have morally undermined their legitimate cause for an independent state and have been politically and militarily devastating.