self-destroying
- a word derived from destroy.
Example Sentences
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Every time a new oil field is discovered, the press cheers: “Hooray, there is more fuel for the self-destroying machines!”
From Salon • May 21, 2012
It seemed that the complex urban understanding was going through another periodic fit, obeying the logic of a self-destroying machine by Sculptor Jean Tinguely.
From Time Magazine Archive
For him the whale came to represent whatever it is that drives men to self-destroying quests.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems time that we gave thought to the fundamental question, whether or not there is something self-destroying in the very process of culture.
From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton
Man may not purify himself by blind self-destroying zeal, but by faithful and humble submissiveness, by silent fulfilment of duty, by incessant inward struggles.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
