Sentence examples for state of devastation from inspiring English sources
"The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation," he said on local television.
Four years ago, the ravine was closed to the public; it was in a state of devastation, and the 90-acre forest surrounding it was dying.
He began a paper on the subject with a quote from the 19th-century English economist John Stuart Mill, who wondered at "the great rapidity with which countries recover from a state of devastation".
Two years later, on Sept. 14, 2001, we left New York in its state of devastation and traveled to Solomons Island, Md., on the Chesapeake, where we moved aboard Arrow, our newly purchased 47-foot sloop-rigged sailboat designed by the naval architect team of Sparkman & Stephens.
The reciprocal association between natural and manmade disasters and growth of economies was first described by Mill (1848, p. 74 75): "What has so often excited wonder [is] the great rapidity with which countries recover from a state of devastation; the disappearance, in a short time, of all traces of the mischiefs done by earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and the ravages of war.
"Four decades after the U.S. left this country in a state of devastation and ruin, the Vietnamese have recovered impressively," said U.S. Army veteran Chuck Searcy, who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968.
I woke up Wednesday in a state of profound devastation.
Ralf, who we'd all stopped looking at, trundled back to his chair in a state of emotional devastation.
Many people I meet have imagined me in a state of pure devastation and distress at my diagnosis.
Rumours floated that there were plans afoot to close the entire operation – a decision that would have thrown nearby Swansea, Llanelli, Neath, Bridgend, Newport and Ebbw Vale into a state of economic devastation, as well as Port Talbot itself.
Like "All About My Mother," "Talk to Her," "Bad Education" and "Volver" — not a bad decade's work, by the way — "Broken Embraces" leaves the viewer in a contradictory state, a mixture of devastation and euphoria, amusement and dismay that deserves its own clinical designation.
