The only thing keeping him from utter ruin is his professionalism, which expresses itself in an ingrained habit of courtesy.
But in claiming relatively few lives, it left many more people in utter ruin.
That would still be the best way to save what is left of Syria from utter ruin.
Facing utter ruin, he bumps a chip - technically his bogey putt - up the hill and into the cup!
DHANAUR, India, March 28 —Year after year, the Baghmati river swells with the rains and, rushing down from the Himalayas, submerges this back-of-beyond village into utter ruin.
The closer Ed comes to utter ruin, the more alive he seems, and his downcast, expressionless countenance begins to glow with something like beatitude.
Plumes of black smoke and the residue of explosives still envelope the desolate streets, left in utter ruin after what had clearly been heavy fighting.
"As I expected, every stock is further down still," he announces, "and my last effort to retrieve my fortune has plunged me into utter ruin".
The truth is, Perseus' fear of spending his money was the destruction and utter ruin of all those splendid and great preparations with which the Macedonians were in high hopes to carry on the war with success.
They will get the miraculous money-making effects of buying assets with borrowed money, without the risk of utter ruin that, as we have seen lately, usually goes along with it.
A print that goes into the world takes its lumps; some state between the immaculate and utter ruin is an accurate representation of the experience that moviegoers had in the age of film projection.
