Sentence examples for ravaged world from inspiring English sources

The story followed Naushika, a princess and reluctant warrior, on her journey through an ecologically ravaged world.

This effective imprisonment owes much to Beckett, as do the broken sentences that din home a ravaged world: "The room.

That apocalypse and the resistance to it are made laboriously explicit from the start of the movie with a grindingly grandiose depiction, thanks to widely deployed C.G.I., of the ravaged world that they're fighting to redeem.

He put it this way: It's entirely conceivable that we will one day live miserably in a thoroughly ravaged world in which lesbians and gay men can marry and serve openly in the Army and that's it.

Recently, staring up at the three towering bronze columns, parts of each which have been stripped away to reveal jagged fissures, couldn't help but remind me of the ravaged World Trade Center towers.

It doesn't sit well with him that he and his ma (a puppet that looks as if it's made of moldy papier-mâché) are to be left in the sticks while his brother, the shiny, handsome Benjamin Preston Martinn), has been selected by the mysterious powers that rule the ravaged world to become a figurehead in the Frozen City.

Compared with the first half of the 20th century, when two world wars ravaged humanity, ours is still – for all its fears and troubles – comparatively fortunate.

The plot might ostensibly follow the attempts of bounty hunter Rick Deckard to track down and "retire" life-like androids who escaped from their human owners on Mars and have returned to an Earth ravaged by World War Terminus.

Today, another plague -- AIDS -- has ravaged the world.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), administrative body (1943 47) for an extensive social-welfare program that assisted nations ravaged by World War II.

Drug companies, foundations and international agencies are trying to deliver anti-H.I.V. drugs to AIDS ravaged third world countries in Africa and elsewhere.