Adjective : a devastating fire. ,a devastating portrayal of society. From Dictionary.com.
An epic ethical horror story, told in devastatingly poignant miniature. From Wordnik.com. [Never Let Me Go: Summary and book reviews of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.] Reference
Not for the first time, he was devastatingly cynical. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
MITCHELL: Well it's had a devastatingly negative effect. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2002] Reference
It seemed so real, so incredibly, devastatingly real —. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased For Revenge]
But the news coming out of Iraq is just devastatingly bad. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2004] Reference
This is an old, simplistic and devastatingly cruel argument. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Madrick: Memo to Dems: Poverty and Income Drops Represent GOP Failures] Reference
And was the most devastatingly handsome fellow and still is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2003] Reference
Properly controlled, informants are devastatingly effective. From Wordnik.com. [Justice: The Trouble With Informants] Reference
But the damage inside the body is devastatingly irreversible. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006] Reference
The charm was just that, but devastatingly attractive even so. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing with Clara]
And say for almost two years, it's been devastatingly effective. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2009] Reference
And devastatingly, three days later, she lost her only son, Danny. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2007] Reference
Angela Brickell however was devastatingly carrying Perkin's child. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
"Uh-huh," Koubatzes repeated, even more devastatingly than before. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
None of these seemed to be quite exactly precisely devastatingly her. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
And when the Bears go better players, the '46' became devastatingly good. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Robert Casey: Talking Blood, Sweat and Chalk with Sports Illustrated's Tim Layden] Reference
The town is devastatingly poor, has always been poor, will always be poor. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference
There was, Smiley reflected, something devastatingly competent about Rigby. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder of Quality]
His parents were there the entire time as their son lay devastatingly injured. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2005] Reference
Burns are known, as was stated earlier, to be extremely devastatingly painful. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2009] Reference
Chlorine, too reappeared, looking devastatingly lovely in her windblown state. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
Every day for a month he went to the house, but it remained devastatingly empty. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
She was a splendid specimen of her kind, twice Che's size and devastatingly female. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
Their condition is well documented, poorly understood — and devastatingly painful. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychedelic Solution] Reference
It was a devastatingly sweet smile, a smile to die for, a smile to make the devil weep. From Wordnik.com. [The Meaning of Life] Reference
A Reid overplay: Reid has, to date, been devastatingly effective in his attacks on Angle. From Wordnik.com. [How Sharron Angle can (still) win] Reference
When they turn 18, they are literally, and often, devastatingly, turned out on their own. From Wordnik.com. [Rhea Perlman: Giving Foster Kids Three More Years] Reference
Your poll ratings in both the house and the senate are devastatingly low, historic low levels. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2007] Reference
Jacoby claims his partners forced him out with a "devastatingly effective squeeze-out technique.". From Wordnik.com. [When Jacoby Sued Meyers] Reference
I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
If he had been videotaping the devastatingly handsome Mark Eiglarsh, it would have been the same result. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2009] Reference
In 1937, along came a young black kid out of Detroit so devastatingly gifted that they had to give him a chance. From Wordnik.com. [The Team Of The Century] Reference
She watched him in the mirror as he fastened the necklace, total concentration on his devastatingly handsome face. From Wordnik.com. [At The Spaniard's Convenience]
In the meantime, an update on the situation with Morakot, the devastatingly strong typhoon that affected Taiwan and China. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2009] Reference
Under proper care she recovered rapidly from her comasleep, whereupon she laid into him far more devastatingly than any hivemother. From Wordnik.com. [Nor Crystal Tears]
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