Example Sentences

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And he mistrusted her, he was afraid of a woman capable of such abandon, such dangerous thoroughness of destructivity.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Self directed labor gave place to slavery; participation in productive activity yielded to parasitism; productivity was subordinated to destructivity; the spirit of independence was replaced by the acceptance of increasing arbitrary individual authority.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott

In Chapter 11 I wrote about one of its destructive aspects—the extreme destructivity of two periods of general war.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott

Utilization of atomic energy had stepped up destructivity to the nth power.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott