| But the factory, and the soul-destroying drudgery of assembly line work, was the fate of most. |
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| As loveless marriages go, it is threatening to become the most soul-destroying variety. |
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| We were winning every week but so were they and, in the end, it became soul-destroying because we just could not close the gap. |
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| An unhappy office can be more than just soul-destroying, it can seriously damage people's lives. |
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| Her Justine is a bored shopgirl inhabiting a soul-destroying existence in deepest Texas. |
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| These people were the ones who were always picked last for football teams, and who find working as a team a soul-destroying activity. |
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| He and Buster have already had to travel alone for hours, a soul-destroying experience for man and horse. |
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| The arrival of this inquisitive and innocent child shatters the soul-destroying isolation that the other widows have accepted. |
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| In defeats, small or big, much is learned but walkovers are soul-destroying. |
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| During her remarkable, epic voyage, Richards, who started sailing as as child in Helensburgh, had to overcome hurricanes, icebergs and soul-destroying solitude. |
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| But for reviewers, having to sift through mountains of published works attempting to find something worthy of praise can also be a soul-destroying task. |
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| I'm sure you all appreciate the fact that for any parent to be accused of something that is so repugnant to them must be soul-destroying. |
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| The two are followed by unseen eyes and become pawns of sinister forces revolving around a soul-destroying mirror. |
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| His work with tractors, harvesters, milkers and the other machines that ease work on the modern farm is not soul-destroying or deadening. |
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| Jerks says coaching a country of the stature of the Cook Islands is far from soul-destroying work. |
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| You see, I wouldn't mind it at all if it wasn't so mind-numbing and soul-destroying. |
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| If you are in the market on your own, then it can be very soul-destroying. |
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| This last 9 months in the wilderness of soul-destroying job applications and mind-numbing temp jobs had worn me down. |
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| I've had three years earning hardly any money, and long lie-ins are OK for a while but then they get pretty soul-destroying. |
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| Katerina's soul-destroying loneliness and violent sexual passion is expressed in music of soaring lyricism. |
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| What Betancourt experiences in the jungle is soul-destroying. |
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| Hitchhiking, I swiftly discovered, is soul-destroying. |
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| Otherwise, it's pretty soul-destroying really. |
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| They are often criticised for their lack of progress, which is de-motivating, unfair, and soul-destroying. |
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| Have you any idea how soul-destroying it is when a small businessman, with limited access to bank loans, is expected to subsidise companies with a far bigger cash flow or the huge public sector of a country? |
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| Is it healthy, life-changing honesty or soul-destroying sniping? |
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| Being unemployed for so long and not being able to show people what I can do is soul-destroying. |
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| A creative experience, enlivening, but also harrowing, soul-destroying. |
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| Think of something more soul-destroying than that. |
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| Having covered but a handful of royal visits, I cannot imagine anything more soul-destroying. |
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| Within seconds of the soul-destroying leveller, Christophe Berra demanded a penalty of his own but was instead booked for diving. |
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| Both men spend 24 hours a day in their mosquito-infested cells, sleeping on the floor with no books or writing materials to break the soul-destroying tedium. |
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| My husband spends his day searching for jobs online, all of which is soul-destroying enough, especially when most companies or agencies do not even bother to reply. |
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| There are moments of profound existential angst, howls of despair at the absurd futilities of war and a sneering disgust at the soul-destroying wastage of human potential. |
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