Sentence examples for thoroughly devastating from inspiring English sources

Among the standouts in the 19-day program's first week, in various locations around the city, was the quietly grave, thoroughly devastating "Black Paper" by Teju Cole, the Nigerian-American writer, photographer and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine.

During the next year the area was thoroughly devastated.

When the Philippines became independent on July 4, 1946, its economy had been thoroughly devastated by World War II.

His brother Robin said on behalf of the family: "We are just thoroughly devastated by it all, it's just a complete shock.

Instead I feel thoroughly devastated.

Thoroughly devastated back then, Falluja has again found itself on the receiving end of American air power.

Having skewered just about every professional sport possible, and so thoroughly devastated the news business, Will Ferrell is focusing his brand of goofy humor and satire on a truly deserving target: the wrecked economy, and those who did the wrecking.

That is why it is so disturbing that she seems unwilling to make her research data public, and that is why Sommers's own quantitative and thoroughly researched refutation of Gilligan's claims is so devastating.

Their next and more considerable problem, however, is to cope with the young ladies' devastating wit, through means of which the gentlemen are thoroughly put down.

Michelle Fairley has been quietly devastating as Catelyn over the last two episodes, giving us a thoroughly believable portrait of a woman overwhelmed by grief.

Walking, once the greatest of urban pleasures, has become thoroughly unpleasant, and the effect on merchants shrouded under those eyesores can be devastating.