Other corporate labels distort classical definitions to the point of mutual self-destruction. |
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A series of masterpieces followed, stories of male mortification leading to self-destruction. |
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According to the rules that drive this particular fetish, anything short of self-destruction is just going through the motions. |
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She's a character who is completely alone and on the edge of complete self-destruction. |
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His protagonists, with few exceptions, are driven to self-destruction or weakened to the point of being destroyed. |
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He serves as her obligatory romantic interest, the guy who saves her from self-destruction. |
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It starred Russell Crowe as a young skinhead on a path of self-destruction, though his ideals blind him to the damage he is doing to himself. |
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In the process he drove himself to exhaustion, and began a tragic descent into paranoia and self-destruction. |
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Passion's dialectical opposite, self-destruction, runs rampant during these years of his life. |
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What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction? |
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Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance star as a couple whose wordless, adulterous affair descends into paranoia and self-destruction. |
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Several thousands of years of experience had taught mankind that destroying his immediate environment leads to self-destruction. |
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Because of this proliferation, the fabric of the subregion itself is rapidly changing, moving toward self-destruction. |
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But how many others are being drawn into or are still trapped in that horrible spiral of self-destruction? |
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Solidarity is essential since it is excessive individualism and egotism that has led us to this dead-end of self-destruction. |
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However, when it comes to self-destruction any car combined with a hard-core muscle car mentality will eventually lead to a dead end. |
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Do you find consolation in prayer and aspiration, and holy self-destruction here, at the twelfth station? |
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When reporters interview me about press controversies, I'm frank to the point of self-destruction. |
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His black streak of self-destruction will be the felix culpa of his ultimate redemption. |
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The game has become our modern Passion Play, self-destruction as our highest form of heroism. |
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But he later expanded on this idea, and said he suffered from what he called the self-destruction switch. |
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The Romantics turned self-destruction into a literary convention, further weakening the stigma attached to the act. |
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I'd gone to Australia for the final act, thrown myself into the requisite lusty self-destruction, the absence of care. |
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In effect, pursuing the American Dream leads to his self-destruction. |
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She is eager to please her lost father, to the point of self-destruction. |
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He has made a career out of exploring the darker side of the human psyche, of exposing obsessive characters who seem hell-bent on self-destruction. |
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It suits an artist of immense gifts way better than self-destruction. |
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Bender gets hooked on electricity, and Fry and the gang worry that he's on a downward spiral toward self-destruction. |
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This went on to cause no end of grief for her Mum and a downward spiral of self-destruction for this confused young teen. |
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Over the next few years, she would hear about him through her brother, about his remarriage, his downward spiral, his self-destruction. |
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Humankind is already on a pathway of self-destruction, an achievement that will not need the aid of an aberrant asteroid. |
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Always clowning around, teasing girls, and getting into scraps with others, he's heading for self-destruction. |
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The Shammat, who set the Shikastans on a course of self-destruction, self-destruct themselves and withdraw from the planet. |
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It is called hubris. In Greek mythology, overwhelming pride and arrogance inevitably would lead to self-destruction. |
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Unexploded ordnance is a problem in post-conflict situations and more work needs to be done on self-destruction and detection of munitions. |
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These are in the process of self-destruction and are, according to some, in an advanced state of decadence. |
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Humans were led into self-destruction, midwayers were lost by a large majority, and the lower orders of angels suffered considerable loss. |
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Or else he will become one more voice in the wilderness in a country determined to go on a downward spiral of social and ecological self-destruction. |
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And I'm wondering if we're watching the self-destruction of another industry that's saying if we do everything on the cheap somehow they'll sit on their couches, when the new demographic has lots of better things to do. |
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The rhythmic contraction of endometrial vessels that this triggers causes endometrial self-destruction and shedding in preparation for another attempt to recreate a fertile environment for the next ovulation. |
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Without such an understanding, we are led to ecocide, the self-destruction of the one ecosphere that sustains all human existence. |
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In his study, Dr. Dorais identifies three specific ways out of the problem that help alleviate self-hatred and self-destruction among gay youth. |
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Few of them share Al-Qaedas grandiose apocalyptic vision or its nihilistic will to fulfil it by self-destruction. |
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A team of civil specialists leave in rowboat towards the lifting body to defuse the self-destruction system. |
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The ultimate consequence of misology is a kind of self-destruction in which what is destroyed is that aspect of the self represented by active reason. |
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The commitments to today's development will define the life of tomorrow, and today's deafness will be a path to self-destruction, to which we refuse to be resigned. |
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The British aristocracy is littered with stories of unmitigated spendthrifts who seem bent on self-destruction. |
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Klein suffered from a severe form of cyclothymic illness which, in manic phases, provoked arrest and disgrace, and in depressive mood, brought him close to self-destruction. |
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Would there be a kind of self-destruction, or just a great leap forward? |
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It prohibits cluster munitions that randomly scatter tens or hundreds of submunitions that have no self-destruction mechanism or selfdeactivation feature. |
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That century has now been succeeded by another in which human transgressions against the natural order have been pushed close to the point of self-destruction. |
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Both see morally mandated personal development as a form of self-destruction, an immolation of one's desires and impulses for the sake of something extrinsic to the self. |
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The action star went public two years ago with a tale of self-destruction that included heavy drug use and untreated manic-depression. |
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Instead, opulence breeds discontentment and eventual self-destruction. |
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In contrast to the constant cheeriness of Soviet images, Mr Dodin showed the tragedy and self-destruction of the Russian village after the second world war. |
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He did see a group of people in Iran's government being very nervous, with certain parallels with China: over-mystification to the point of self-destruction and constant worries over regime survival. |
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Figurally, cannibalism results in self-consuming fictions, by which political and economic structures based upon oppression lead inevitably to their own self-destruction. |
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