| Anyway, I'll try again tonight to come up with some devastatingly clever pun that befits my rapier wit. |
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| They were devastatingly effective because they can cover wide areas with intense and indiscriminate firepower. |
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| Although scorpion stings can be devastatingly painful, they are not usually lethal to humans. |
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| His stock in trade was a brisk heartiness which at times bordered on the devastatingly brutal. |
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| The explosion shook the ground with a devastatingly loud noise, loud enough to wake up the dead. |
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| This is a narrow island and was hit devastatingly hard on both ends by 15-foot waves, killing 1,500 people. |
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| All the girls in the office had taken this to mean that I was devastatingly handsome. |
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| When a real threat emerges, his lifelong habit of hiding behind false identities is suddenly and devastatingly exposed. |
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| He was returning to the place where he had offered up his most emotionally draining, yet devastatingly insulting proposal to Elizabeth. |
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| There are any number of good medicine walks right at the front door, flat, easy going and devastatingly beautiful in any weather, rain or shine. |
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| The initial demographic impact of European colonialism was devastatingly negative. |
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| A collapse of the country's economy would have a devastatingly destabilising impact on the region. |
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| This book contains an emotionally riveting, devastatingly honest, and morally compelling answer. |
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| Wickedly funny and devastatingly moving, this is an extraordinary first novel. |
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| Cancer is a devastatingly isolating disease, both for patients and their carers. |
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| Her ambition to have her star quality discovered is devastatingly dashed by a new arrival at the school who threatens to upstage her plans. |
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| She broke off contact with her father, devastatingly losing her faith in both him and the Church. |
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| Though Jimmy's home life isn't especially stable it's not devastatingly messed up either. |
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| Bradfield, as Nuala, devastatingly shows a heart being broken before our eyes. |
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| Death during childbirth was commonplace and infant mortality devastatingly high. |
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| Across the world, the colonisation of time happened as surely and as devastatingly as the colonisation of land. |
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| People all around town were dying from the flu, it struck so quickly and devastatingly. |
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| While he could be devastatingly fast on track, his road riding was measured and well judged. |
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| Two thousand adherents of the old Tokugawa order were devastatingly crushed by imperial troops. |
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| He still looked devastatingly handsome with an unmistakably noble air, a vivid proof of his lineage. |
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| Major Tony Hibbert remembers the German tanks were now devastatingly effective. |
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| I reasoned that this would either be a devastatingly effective or disastrous opening gambit. |
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| America has become very, very good at fighting wars efficiently and devastatingly. |
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| The Taj is beautiful, but unfortunately located in a heartbreakingly poor, devastatingly polluted modern city. |
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| The acuteness and expanse of his vision, his documentary power, and his grace and skill as an artist make his work devastatingly, frighteningly immediate. |
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| Some chapters are devastatingly sad, others are funny, some are sexy. |
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| This trio will not be given the chance to record together again, but here they give a glimpse of something which could have proved devastatingly awesome. |
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| He accurately and devastatingly accuses the civil service of a public procurement policy that excludes home-grown small and medium-sized enterprises. |
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| He was expected to be the sort of party animal that was so devastatingly portrayed in Less Than Zero, a novelist who rubbed shoulders with rock music legends. |
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| He displayed a charm that could be used devastatingly to his advantage. |
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| Fathers 4 Justice has proved devastatingly effective at generating publicity, so much so that on Monday Channel 4 will be devoting a one-hour documentary to them. |
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| Whenever disaster strikes the poor prima ballerina, she hangs up her dancing shoes in despair until some devastatingly handsome boy shows her that she was made to dance. |
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| Ms. Knightley deserves full marks for her spot-on, devastatingly flat American accent, which occasionally slides into Minnie Mouse squeakiness. |
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| Bracketing people based on appearance has led to isolation and reduced opportunities, and more devastatingly, holocausts and eugenics. |
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| This is a very big, brawling mix of ideas and interviews, with wacky clips, spoofs and pastiches, some devastatingly funny and pertinent, some of them pretty lame. |
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| Labour's narrative was once devastatingly clear: the revenues from a buoyant economy should correct the historic underspend on public services. |
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| To the dedicated junk collector, a devastatingly unsightly old lamp may be more of a find than an authentic Chippendale piece. |
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| After a Chekhov and two Pinters, they are reunited now on this devastatingly brilliant production of Sophocles' great tragedy Electra. |
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| If we were to use this issue alone to gauge the success of Structural Fund policy, we would pass a devastatingly negative judgment on it. |
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| They understand that the costs of a nuclear accident outside of a nuclear facility could be devastatingly high. |
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| A nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological terrorist attack would have a devastatingly far-reaching impact. |
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| The illicit chemistry is devastatingly hot between Eddie and his niece who, at first admires him but later turns on him with disgust. |
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| Those that became viruses, on the other hand, remained tiny but devastatingly successful. |
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| This astonishingly simple yet devastatingly graphic representation of mass carnage attracts many thousands of visitors every day. |
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| United's determination to avoid debt made it devastatingly attractive to acquisitive entrepreneurs, but wondering how to expand its revenue was the problem. |
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| When it comes to crafting a raucous, devastatingly brutal insult, he is a Shakespeare. |
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| Against isolated adversaries, they are devastatingly effective, as long as we understand that they are not long-term solutions. |
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| Spielberg wastes precious little time in establishing the scenario and then packs the film with awe-inspiring set pieces that look devastatingly authentic. |
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| Like Meryl Streep, she can convey the turmoil beneath an implacable surface, and when Cathy's calm and control desert her she is devastatingly believable. |
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| What's more, the chord sequence, which gently reveals itself to be church bells pealing in the distance, is completely and devastatingly the emotional heart of the thing. |
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| The writing is pithy and incisive and sometimes devastatingly accurate. |
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| The German attacks were devastatingly successful and more than 200 ships, mostly tankers, were sunk within ten miles of the Canadian or American coastlines. |
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| It's a hidden national scandal that's making the country a devastatingly unfair place to live in. |
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| Ray was a diminutive man with a giant personality, devastatingly funny, with a ready wit. |
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| However, despite the devastatingly destructive role of the IMF in previous crises, governments represented at the summit were united on the need for a rapid strengthening of the organizations finances, mandate and reach. |
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| Uganda is devastatingly poor, which translates into an unimaginably low ratio of nurses to patients, not to mention an absence of resources to support quality patient care. |
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| It demonstrated for the first time how devastatingly harmful hyperglycemia in the mother's blood can be to the developing fetus. |
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| He was gentle, caring and a good sportsman with a fantastic life ahead of him which has been devastatingly cut short. |
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| Recognition that the process of hierarchical racial classification has proved devastatingly disadvantageous to people of colour is the first step towards reconciling the historical record of unmerited white privilege. |
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| Most everything comes scattered with a mustardy mix of chopped tomatoes, onion, and peppers, and with a tiny plastic container of devastatingly spicy Ivorian hot sauce. |
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| Well, if there are significant structural issues in China helping to generate a trade surplus, then the yuan revaluation necessary to eliminate the trade deficit would be devastatingly large. |
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| It is a bleak but devastatingly funny account – including a painfully appropriate jibe at the leader line of this newspaper – of the dilemmas faced by Labour councillors running a northern town that has to make £22m of cuts. |
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| But the country has also suffered terrible conflicts, poor governance and heart-wrenching poverty, all of which created and perpetuated the vulnerability which has been devastatingly exposed during the shaking. |
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| Over the three days of the devastatingly brief Sydney Test that followed, I found that this kind of frank admission of inadequacy was shockingly prevalent. |
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| Sadly, Labour was ineffective in countering the Big Lie propagated by those devastatingly clever Tory strategists that Gordon Brown was responsible for the recession. |
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| They attempted in 1997 to come forward with some policy recommendations in order to ensure sustainability, to reduce these devastatingly heavy harvest patterns. |
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| It is devastatingly clear that there is still a long way to go before the country accepts them as a viable couple. |
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| However, as Hurricane Katrina so devastatingly showed in 2005, even developed countries with large adaptive capacities may remain vulnerable to major climate-related events. |
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| It seems that the devastatingly brilliant third way that you introduced into British politics is what you are going to bring in during this presidency here. |
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| This devastatingly defamatory attack is absolutely false, is contradicted by Chuck Cadman's own words, and the Prime Minister is demanding a full apology from the Liberal leader. |
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| The children's agency also predict a rise in the country's already devastatingly high malnutrition rate. |
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| It is just devastatingly sad and we will try and help everyone through it. |
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| But the playwright's moralistic statement is devastatingly realized by a first-rate ensemble under the fluid, insightful direction of Jeremiah Morris. |
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