despoliation

If the final AR image of plastic bags, echoed by one onstage, gestures toward a critique of environmental despoliation, it’s a wan gesture.

Daemon returned as a conqueror with a new haircut, seeming redeemed until he took Rhaenyra on her despoliation tour of the dirty old town.

They drove industry, which drove the despoliation of the planet.

But the application of modern science and engineering to economic affairs also set in motion a ruinous despoliation of the planet.

He said the court’s decision represented “a second despoliation of the painting.”