Sentence examples for painfully devastating from inspiring English sources
MONICA DENNIS, northeast regional coordinator for Black Lives Matter and co-founder of the Spirit of a Woman Leadership Development Institute: It's very easy to become numb, really as a defense mechanism to seeing these mutilated or dehumanized black bodies; it's not a surprise and yet it's still painfully devastating when it happens.
But a painfully fresh case is devastating Catholics in Kansas City, Mo., where a priest, who was arrested in May, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of taking indecent photographs of young girls, most recently during an Easter egg hunt just four months ago.
The numbers are devastating, each one of them painfully reminding me what a difference an investment into disaster preparedness and early warning systems — like those that have been implemented in Bangladesh — could have made for the families in Myanmar.
His turn as the caring but painfully shy Dr. Malcolm Sayer was both uplifting as patients 'awoke' and devastating as they returned to their former states.
Perhaps the most extreme, and most devastating, version of the wrenching mirror of self-revelation is in "The Chapman Report," from 1962, something of a revision of "The Women" from a painfully intimate perspective.
