THE most devastating aspect of being raped 11 years ago was the loss of innocence, the feeling, 26-year-old Charles Meyer, said, "that part of me had been ripped away."

And isolation can be the most devastating aspect of being hearing-impaired, according to Marilyn Bryant, a school psychologist, who lost her hearing as an adult.

The devastating aspect of the affair was that Cayle Clark was not doing anything.

Statzer had recently been fitted with an artificial skull plate that masked the most devastating aspect of his injuries, but his physique was now a mere slip of his former champion powerlifter's frame; having lost an artery carrying blood to the brain, he was prone to seizures, and even moderate exercise was dangerous.

Throughout the war, the most devastating aspect of it remained the indiscriminate shelling of the city by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and later Rashid Dostum in the conflict.

This is a truly devastating aspect of the urban life of the 1990's, that people have to be afraid when they send their children off to school.

He was afraid she would finally invoke the most devastating aspect of all, and render the cosmos back into complete chaos.

But that modest benefit would almost certainly be overwhelmed by the potentially devastating aspects of the warming that will occur here and around the world if nothing substantial is done about the buildup in the earth's atmosphere of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.

But for those who do have coprolalia, said Dr. Carlos Singer, director of the division of movement disorders at the University of Miami School of Medicine, the symptom is often the most devastating and humiliating aspect of their condition.

And women commonly describe hair loss as the most devastating aspect of chemotherapy, even though they know their hair will grow back after the treatments are over.