The book was one of 20th-century architecture's most traumatic events.

"Emergency removals are the most traumatic to the child," she said.

The poor unsuspecting visitors were in for perhaps the most traumatic experience of their lives.

This was the most traumatic as well as strange year in her life.

To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis.

Diana arrived at Sandringham that weekend having just been through a most traumatic period.

At the same time the party would experience its most traumatic internal division.

The trade liberalization has been the most traumatic in history.

Why shouldn't there be an imprint in the adult mind of life's first, possibly most traumatic experience?

This period in the history of Middlesbrough is considered its most traumatic.