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devastate verb demolish, depopulate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, gut, lever, overwhelm, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, raze, ruin, sack, wreck See also: damage, despoil, destroy, efface, extinguish, extirpate, harm, injure, obliterate, pillage, prejudice, subvert How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Using a modernist style evoking Picasso or Matisse, second-prize winner Zahi Kamis' series "Shahid wa Shaheed," (translated "Witness and Martyr") honors the martyrs who witnessed the devastations of the occupation (<www. This sets up an interesting discussion of representations of paternity in popular imagery (mass advertisements, family magazines, the legislative proposals of social reformers, public debates, pro-natalist propaganda, lesson plans, and religious treatises) through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; and how these were, in turn, challenged by the national malaise that followed the devastations of WWI (chapter 2). Hundreds of uprooted live oak trees are just one of the many devastations caused by Hurricane Katrina, but this cloud may have a silver lining. |
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