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Yet her portrait of this womanizing, "self-destroyed escapologist" is softened by her high regard for his lush language.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2016

The counterfeit forces 293:21 There is no vapid fury of mortal mind - expressed in         earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity         - and this so-called mind is self-destroyed.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker

An army that takes to the hills on either side of the valley is not worth following: it is self-destroyed, since it can find no sustenance and no water.

From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George

There may be that in the universe which destroys the man who does not conform to it, but in the last analysis he is self-destroyed, that is, he chooses not to conform.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

The belief in sin—its pleasure, pain, or power—must suffer, until it is self-destroyed.

From No and Yes by Eddy, Mary Baker