self-destruction

Whether a different candidate might have produced a different result is unknowable, but as I’ve already suggested, this outcome was likely overdetermined by the Democratic Party’s trajectory of self-destruction.

This downward spiral of self-destruction isn't subtle; it is why there are so many "divorced dude energy" jokes about Trump voters.

The solution used three encryption standards and offered the option to send a message followed by a specific code that results in self-destruction of all messages on the target phone.

The book stuck with Waterhouse, particularly the sentiment that “you’re just running into self-destruction and there’s this huge hole in your heart that you’re trying to fill with love and nothing’s working to fill it.”

I instantly thought Dave was alluring, but pursuing him meant facing my fears; in a past life, I was the anxiously attached girlfriend who was always worried about male-female interactions and those extreme fictitious scenarios that led to self-destruction.