Sentence examples for through devastation from inspiring English sources

And Anne Murphy of Queens Village, New York, said of our Facebook comments that it "sounds like most people across the world offer the same thoughts as those in this country who have gone through devastation".

There is something cool to the point of cold, even frozen, about Hamilton's painting, however hot its subject matter – especially when he was depicting the dirty protests by IRA prisoners, an English soldier on an Ulster street, or an Orangeman walking through devastation.

In the days after Hurricane Sandy swept through the Rockaways, residents were left to sift through the devastation, taking stock of who and what had survived.

It has been through economic devastation.

If another storm sweeps through, the devastation could be unimaginable.

Rescue teams were picking through the devastation in the small Texas town of West, near Waco, after a massive explosion at a fertiliser company flattened the surrounding neighbourhood.

He wrote in Levels of Life about the ire caused by the platitudes and perceived provocations dispensed by friends attempting to steer him through his devastation.

It promises "a death-defying flight through apocalyptic devastation", which doesn't sound too moderate, with "near misses and gut-wrenching inversions as it rips through the sky on its mission of complete annihilation".

And yet, even in this population, there were sometimes "islands of ability," occasionally spectacular talents, shining through the devastation, precisely as Kanner and Asperger had described — remarkable numerical or graphic powers, for instance.

For several minutes after losing to the unknown George Bastl, Sampras sat in a chair on Court No. 2, aimlessly shifting around his racket strings, trying to sort through his devastation.

"We hope that people, especially the younger members of society, learn a lesson from Peter's death and that they don't put their families through the devastation we are experiencing just now".