Sentence examples for quite ruinous from inspiring English sources
Like many admirers who tended Ray in the hope that he might recover and work again, Eisenschitz glosses over the bisexuality and quite ruinous personal indulgences.
This solution, if not ruinous, is not quite right.
It's now in ruinous shape, although not quite yet ruined.
He is under attack at home from even more hawkish rivals within his coalition, who argue that he could have destroyed Hamas completely though that would entail heavy casualties and a ruinous occupation, or Gaza quite possibly falling into the hands of another Islamist group.
Before that we tried excellent grilled giant prawns (shrimp) tinged emerald with mint (that was the hariyaki) and pomfret (butterfish) Hyderabadi tikka, rolls of white fish encrusted in a great deal of coarse black pepper, ruinous to the palate but quite tasty on its own.
Formal Russian recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states looks quite possible - but Russia might be reluctant to annex them, because of the enormous reconstruction cost after months of ruinous fighting.
"And financially ruinous".
(Riches without virtue are ruinous).
Aids is economically ruinous.
