Sentence examples for world ravages from inspiring English sources

In the 2006 documentary "Manufactured Landscapes," the filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal follows in Burtynsky's footsteps and observes him at work to film — with a cinematographic sensibility to rival the photographer's style — places that the developed world ravages and overwhelms with factory production and fabricated waste.

In the 2006 documentary "Manufactured Landscapes," the filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal follows in Burtynsky's footsteps and observes him at work to film with a cinematographic sensibility to rival the photographer's style places that the developed world ravages and overwhelms with factory production and fabricated waste.

Nicolas Cage is to take the lead in a new sci-fi movie depicting a world ravaged by climate change.

Mad Max may tell a cautionary tale about a world ravaged by resource wars, but its own carbon footprint must be mind-bogglingly, extravagantly high.

The prospect of being reborn as a poor person in a world ravaged by climate change could lead us to very different political decisions.

In her towering and intrepid new novel, "Oryx and Crake" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; $26), Atwood, who is the daughter of a biologist, vividly imagines a late-twenty-first-century world ravaged by innovations in biological science.

Smythe tells the story of consequent global collapse through more than 20 "testimonies" of survivors from all around the world, charting humanity's reaction to the message and describing a world ravaged by terrorism.

The game opens on a small Oklahoma settlement in a world ravaged by an extraterrestrial virus, just as "death squads" of alien chimera arrive to wipe out the remnants of humanity – and it's an astonishingly convincing, immersive setting.

Questioning whether individual sanity can have any relevance in a world ravaged by madness, "Pilgrim" is an intense, bewitching mix of mystery, religion, history, psychology and philosophy that challenges and provokes while still managing to entertain.

A second narrator, designated "Daniel24," picks up the story of "Daniel" and of human history (these now conveniently intersect) far in the future, where Daniel24 and his fellow "neohumans" live in a world ravaged by environmental disaster and almost completely devoid of human interaction.

In "Siegfried" the struggle has reached "critical mass," Ms. Zambello writes in a program note, with the oppressed (the Nibelung dwarfs Mime and Alberich) living in poverty, a once-powerful mogul (the god Wotan) reduced to scavenging, and the natural world ravaged by greed and rampant development.