Sentence examples for personal devastation from inspiring English sources

What had brought him to this place of personal devastation?

It is a catalog of personal devastation - abrupt dismissals, abandoned careers, dwindling options.

For months, she felt "unable to escape the reality of my personal devastation".

Men and women who previously identified as members of the middle class spoke of personal devastation.

A Womble may never experience the fog on the Tyne, but natural disaster and personal devastation should transcend imaginary boundaries.

There was no room for ambivalence, either, amid the personal devastation of missing out on the Lions.

Each news outlet retold these families' personal devastations as cyberbullying cautionary tales, and Ask.fm as the enabler.

They can multiply in force to take you down emotionally and financially with just a few vicious, malicious comments about you or your business and soon you can be facing personal and professional devastation.

By coincidence, Mr. Pomerantz had a personal perspective of the devastation Mr. Dreier had caused: One of the firm's young lawyers was his own niece.

But in the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, the firm has emerged as a magnet for Wall Street's concern about the devastation and personal tragedy that the financial community has experienced.

Thorough social history comes from Orlando Figes, in The Whisperers, drawing on letters, memoirs and conversations to depict the devastation of personal life in Stalin's Russian; and David Kynaston's Austerity Britain, drawing together the voices of many different witnesses to the postwar reconstruction of the UK.