Sentence examples for terrifying destruction from inspiring English sources

Absent from the battle for London taking place today is the wanton, terrifying destruction perpetrated by most of those listed, but nevertheless it's a battle causing real damage to the community integration and nightlife that makes the English capital the world's greatest, most exciting city.

By all accounts, the terrifying destruction of archaeological sites goes on, from Syria to Afghanistan to Nepal.

Its terrifying destruction inspired a fundamental rethink of humanity's place in the world (and moved Voltaire to write his God-snubbing "Candide").

Yet, while the fear is understandable, this may turn out to have been an overreaction: history suggests that, despite the terrifying destruction and the horrific human toll, the long-term impact of the quake on the Japanese economy could be surprisingly small.

It's as if Scorsese had lifted the lid from that tradition and, in effect, from his own vertiginously cinephilic psyche and movie-obsessed childhood to suggest the terrifying destruction of identity — through the steady and joyful consumption of ecstatic symbols and the disproportionately colossal power of their latent meaning — that results.

The effect is cinematic in its scope, but yet intimate in scale, as the audience watches as the terrifying destruction and suffering of the war is literally constructed by hand before their eyes.

Terrifying sounds of destruction rose up from the garage — hammers striking nails, pine splintering, heavy oak being thrown to the floor and cursed.

Then how does Leiter explain the nearly 1,200 New York Times articles that chronicle in terrifying detail the destruction of Europe's Jews, including ones that tally the mounting death toll and describe the precise methods of murder?

It was the end of a terrifying journey, from the destruction of East Timor to the squalor and harassment of an internment camp in West Timor and back again now to a shattered land of poverty, bereavement and the roofless shells of burned and abandoned homes.

Instead, by raising the ante in the ages-old game of armed conflict, nuclear weapons have merely increased the possibility that, however a war begins, it will end in mass destruction of terrifying dimensions.

Between raunchy jokes and posts about girls and cars on Twitter, Mr. Tsarnaev described terrifying nightmares about murder and destruction.