Sentence examples for surprising devastating from inspiring English sources

Surprising, devastating, triumphant.

But if "Prisoners," written by Aaron Guzikowski, upholds some of the conventions of the angry-dad revenge drama, it also subverts them in surprising, at times devastating ways.

Scaring, devastating, surprising, misleading and stressing out your enemy-colleague is part of winning.

No longer surprising, these bombings are devastating to the soul.

Given our exportation of large-scale intensive confinement facilities, it is tragic, though not surprising, that disease is devastating the Chinese industry.

"The experience was as surprising as it was devastating, which is probably why I didn't handle it well.

Miller said she found the doctor's assessment devastating but not entirely surprising.

Florence reminds us that even devastating events can yield surprising benefits.

When the activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in Honduras, in March, the news was devastating but not exactly surprising.

Given the emotional intensity of his own output, it's not surprising that Frahm's turned in a typically devastating remix.

She reads lots of scholarship essays and a surprising number of them detail young people witnessing the devastating impact of debilitating diseases.