destructiveness

Example Sentences

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His capacity for self-restraint is becoming a thinner veneer over fundamental destructiveness.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2024

Ms Pollack, the Cornell president, said in a statement on Sunday: "The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community."

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

“The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community,” Pollack said, noting antisemitism will not be tolerated at Cornell.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2023

And so the question was: When we have the capacity for both of these things, what has pulled so much of so-called civilization toward destructiveness?

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

The prospect of a general and permanent lowering of environmental resistance becomes grimly and increasingly real with each passing year as the number, variety, and destructiveness of insecticides grows.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson