Wedged between the river and the steep hills, this highway, a well-traveled east-west connector, was hit by torrents from above and surges from below — the devastating one-two punch from what had been Hurricane Irene.
A21 In the wreckage left by the devastating one-two punch of Hurricanes Charley and Frances, engineers, researchers and others are finding that this combination of disasters may do what no single storm has: cause everyone along the United States' southern and eastern coasts to toughen their building codes.
That had to be devastating, one of the hardest periods of your life.
'You cannot question his decision.' " The portrait of the Bush administration that Mr. Goldsmith — who resigned from the Office of Legal Counsel in June 2004, only nine months after assuming the post — draws in this book is a devastating one.
The Last Act of Love is a memoir, and a rather devastating one.
In the trench, in the laboratory, or preferably in the pub with friends or students, he was tremendous company, a raconteur prone to devastating one-liners, the scourge of the pompous and a deadly mimic.
Each hero possesses unique takedown maneuvers, but combined you can wreak havoc on enemies with devastating one-two combos.
A string of devastating one-liners from Diane offer biting commentary on institutional misogyny.
"If you set out trying to be satirical, you can look like one of those bores who have thought up their devastating one-liner before they arrive at the party," he says.
His nerdy, nervous delivery was a sly cover for devastating one-liners: "Sex without love is a meaningless experience," went one, "but as far as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damn good".
