Sentence examples for to ruinous effect from inspiring English sources

Here, in works like "Swimming, Smoking, Crying" and "Shaking, Cooking, Peeing," Ms. Schutz's protagonists multitask to ruinous effect.

She has moved into her mother's garden shed, neglected personal grooming to ruinous effect and passes the time making short films that star her endlessly bickering thumbs.

Cost, efficiency, nature and human lives never stood in the way of Soviet rulers who reversed Siberian rivers, built cities in permafrost and planted corn in virgin land often to ruinous effect.

When she began, in the sixties, it was unheard of in the Spanish-speaking world for an editor to grant a temporary contract or concede, or even negotiate, rights for translations and distribution; publishers could be possessive and territorial, often to ruinous effect for the writer, who was bound by restrictive terms he couldn't shake.

But the "Hunger Games" movies are always carefully attuned to the ruinous effect that violence has on its victims, and even its perpetrators.

Deftly translated from the French by Joël Réjouis and Val Vinokurov, Emmanuel Dongala's novel follows in the tradition of postcolonial novels like Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" -- fiction meant to call attention to the ruinous effects of European imperialism.

The Digital Media industry seems to be waking up to clutter's ruinous effect on advertising value.

Once there is a copy of a manuscript online that is as good as, or clearer than, the original, said Pnina Shor, the project manager at the antiquities authority, there will be no need to expose the fragile fragments of parchment and papyrus to the ruinous effects of light and air again.

Aitken does not return Chelsea to an unblemished state of nature with his cavelike installation — something Hurricane Sandy did, to much more ruinous effect.

The departure in January of the executive chairman, Nicola Cortese, seemed to have a ruinous effect.

She was served by the most formidable spin machine we have seen and aided by outriders who were happy to overlook the ruinous effect of many of her policies because they admired her style and ideology.