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causing great damage, destruction, or emotional pain.
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The criminally invasive type that is devastating and the fun theatrical pick pocketing.
9 Levels of Pickpocketing: Easy to Complex | WIRED
The pace to run in behind and his finishing is devastating.
Messi, Olise or Kane for the Ballon d’Or
And my mother is now in late-stage dementia, so she doesn't know who I am and that's devastating.
I Asked 1000 People About Their Biggest Regrets in Life and Learned...
And another thing to think about, too, is that a bolt-action rifle isn't necessarily the most mass devastating rifle out there.
Reality Ruins Icons: The K98k Sniper
Beast changes can have devastating effects on swan populations reducing the availability of food and nesting sites and exposing them to toxic substances.
Swans Unveiled: A Documentary on Nature’s Graceful Survivors (Short Documentary)
Look at the spot on my leg. This is devastating.
Kalogeras Sisters WAX EACH OTHER (painful)
And just back to that Black Mirror episode, which I've seen, there are examples where something goes, something small goes wrong in someone's brain, but it has hugely devastating consequences.
The new medical innovations that could change everything - The Engineers, BBC World Service
That's devastating for the child's development.
My Therapy Session with Dr. Gabor Maté
At the time, his death looked to almost everyone outside the immediate investigation like a sudden and devastating medical tragedy.
CAUTION!!! This Case Made ME Question HUMANITY - True Crime Documentary
The only thing we know for sure about the sickly King Tutankhamun’s death was that he had a devastating leg injury which led to him later dying from infection.
50 Insane Facts About Ancient Egypt
But I think it was always, like, devastating.
KATSEYE Reveal Uncomfortable Truths in the Hot Seat | Vanity Fair
Then fix the theory. Don't tell me to fix my experience; my experience comes first. Now, can you see the strength of Husserl's point? This is a devastating sort of an argument, and in my view, it's actually true. You know, I think that Husserl's attempt to find a way out of this labyrinth just doesn't work; he's spinning his wheels, he's caught in a snowdrift. But the idea of telling these scientific, empirical, rational, logical guys that if your theory doesn't correspond to my experience, your theory is wrong, not my experience, I think that's right on the money.
Husserl: Phenomenology and the Life World
Narrator: But he knew who it would hurt the most and how devastating the loss of a job can be to an entire family.
The Road We've Traveled
And the other was that species of metals were utterly untransmutable; that is to say, one species of metal cannot be made into another, any more than a donkey could be made into a dog or a dog into a rock. This is, of course, doubly devastating for alchemical theory because it's precisely the ideas found in alchemy that what can be done by nature can also be done by art or artifice in a kind of laboratory.
Alchemy - Where to Begin - Introduction to the Summa Perfectionis (Sum of Perfection) Pseudo-Geber
And over time, what happened was that the Ibn Sina text in Latin sort of melted away into the Aristotelian text, and Europeans thought that this was one long continuous text, all of it written by Aristotle and not Ibn Sina. So, the problem here becomes obvious: if it were just Ibn Sina saying that transmutation weren't possible, people could probably shrug that off, but when Aristotle, the great founder of all of natural philosophy, says, "Look, you can't make things better than nature, and the transmutation of metals is impossible," that is a positively devastating blow.
Alchemy - Where to Begin - Introduction to the Summa Perfectionis (Sum of Perfection) Pseudo-Geber
What makes the concept of grit and BDNF so compelling to me are real life examples of individuals enduring these devastating conditions.
The Secrets and Science of Mental Toughness | Joe Risser MD, MPH | TEDxSanDiego
Nonetheless, Zelensky, his backers in Europe, and the pro-regime press continue to believe that a devastating defeat for Russia is around the corner.
Russia Has NO ANSWER for What Ukraine Just UNLEASHED... Putin Knows the War Is Already LOST
Or are Zelensky and his partners in the EU and UK cynically devastating the Ukrainian people and economy, chasing a pipedream of some kind of Ukrainian “victory”?
Russia Has NO ANSWER for What Ukraine Just UNLEASHED... Putin Knows the War Is Already LOST