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"destructiveness" Definitions
  1. the fact of causing destruction and damage

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At least one spectator has been prompted to question her destructiveness.
Our relative smallness and disproportionate destructiveness is elucidated again and again.
"She was truly hurt by Ramona's behavior and her destructiveness," D'Agostino wrote.
Or, we could fight against the nihilistic indifference that spawns our destructiveness.
A destructiveness that is fundamentally at odds with freedom and with democracy.
But it is also a drama about the destructiveness of internecine fighting.
NotPetya's destructiveness affected not just valid military targets but also civilian entities.
Scientists believe that sea level rise contributed to the destructiveness of the storm.
How much of this is curiosity and how much of it is self-destructiveness?
It's already historic in both its size and destructiveness, having burned over 8,500 homes.
The president recognized its destructiveness and declared it a public health emergency in October.
It predicts catastrophes, then campaigns against practical, effective measures that would reduce their destructiveness. Why?
Even so, Atlantic City is a powerful testament to the destructiveness of unchecked crony capitalism.
Similarly evocative of male-driven destructiveness is the oil-and-acrylic painting "Before the Revolution" (1979).
Global warming makes such storms stronger, and it raises sea levels, which add to their destructiveness.
The controversy surrounding Gervais's most recent TV comedy, Derek, brought out that staunch destructiveness in him.
She vows to be different from Cersei's destructiveness — to a group of men she just roasted alive.
He shows no humility toward the civilization-ending destructiveness of nuclear weapons, and offhandedly entertains their use.
We may have to go through a lot of destructiveness before we can recraft society along rational lines.
"I've never seen anything in Ted that indicates any destructiveness towards any other people," she told the jury.
Spitefulness— Destructiveness and willingness to cause harm to others, even if you get hurt yourself as a result.
At its best, Game of Thrones is a story about the cyclical destructiveness of the pursuit of power.
The last Category 4 storm to do so was Hazel in 1954, a storm famous for its destructiveness.
Regret because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics.
What we must emphasize is the cruelty and destructiveness of hate and the perils of collaborating with it.
War planners calculated that the surrounding mountains would concentrate the force of the bomb and enhance its destructiveness.
That doesn't mean she's not aware of the pain and destructiveness neighbors are capable of exacting on one another.
A lot has been written about what "Veep" has to say about the destructiveness and pettiness of American governance.
What history has also shown us, is that capitalism - when allowed to run free of democracy - tends toward destructiveness.
But it was not a new window: This same self-destructiveness was evident at every turn in the campaign.
The bind is that the longer we wait, the harder it will be, and the destructiveness will only increase.
"In a way, Durén and Ray La Motta have something in common with their rage and self-destructiveness," he explains.
Those episodes are occasionally described as "Peak Trump"—when the chaos and self-destructiveness of his presidency reaches its apex.
The fury and destructiveness of the library fire — and how it preyed on the utter vulnerability of books — rattled me.
Law enforcement has long known of the potential for such phases to transform rhetoric into destructiveness, or physical harm toward people.
Trump has spoken frequently about the destructiveness of MS-13 and its relationship to illegal immigration, promising to "destroy" the gang.
He has since argued that the unique self-destructiveness of the Republican nominee will likely overwhelm the other variables of his model.
She didn't internalize destructiveness, she externalized it, which goes against our romantic view of the Abstract Expressionists and their hard-drinking ways.
Or that our earth appears in revolt of our human destructiveness, as more and more people die every week because of it.
I was talking specifically about protectionism and the economic and diplomatic destructiveness of the administration's latest round of steel and aluminum tariffs.
In her intelligence, vulnerability, volatility, desperation, narcissism and self-destructiveness, Su Lan — despite her voicelessness — is a compellingly complex protagonist, portrayed with exquisite irony.
Rouhani argued the policy is a hypocritical approach coming from a country that has repeatedly warned Tehran about the destructiveness of such powerful weapons.
Finally, the utility of madness hinges on the world's seeing it as a force for good rather than as self-destructiveness or petty bullying.
Mary has this, too, and a self-destructiveness that is all the more poignant because she is fully aware that it exists inside her.
But they by and large have forgotten more controversial aspects of his political protest — particularly his message about economic justice and the destructiveness of poverty.
"I was quickly frustrated by the nihilism and destructiveness of classic German punk, which made old school hardcore my preferred source of music," she said.
It let Kelley explore not only the destructiveness of racial categories but one of his other long-standing interests as well: the primacy of sound.
In her intelligence, vulnerability, volatility, desperation, narcissism and self-destructiveness, Su Lan — despite her voicelessness — is as complex a protagonist as any I can recall.
Guinobatan Journal GUINOBATAN, Philippines — Mount Mayon, one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes, is as renowned for its beauty as it is feared for its destructiveness.
I spoke about the destructiveness of the recent fires with my countryman Murrandoo Yanner, a Gangalidda leader and the director of the Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation.
Presently, of course, both North Korea and the United States have access to far greater levels of nuclear destructiveness than was exploded at "Trinity" on July 85033, 1945.
The stories it tells are rooted in the cyclical inevitability of war, of human self-destructiveness and the omnipresence of death, which claims its own whenever it chooses.
Audre Lorde's scathing letter to Mary Daly about the destructiveness of the white female gaze is an essential reminder that thoughtful and incisive critiques are crucial to progress.
It is sheer selfish manipulation, political destructiveness on a huge scale, because they cannot get what they want; indeed, they cannot agree among themselves on what they want.
In addition, land management practices and expansion of homes into areas that are traditionally prone to wildfires have also played a role in increasing the destructiveness of western wildfires.
In photographs, the couple resembled each other, with soft faces, sulky mouths; they looked like bad, beautiful children — and behaved with joyless destructiveness, smashing up everything in arm's reach.
This provocative multimedia survey ignores the established canon to propose that after the destructiveness of World War II, artists began to answer life's absurdities with more of the same.
In rendering our species alien to itself, the images' aestheticized, supra-human perspective reinforces our preference to marvel, on occasion, rather than confront daily, the spectacle of our own destructiveness.
The alien matter splattering itself around like random tentacled liquid, the way Venom cross-breeds Spider-Man's skyscraper-hopping agility with the Hulk's dynamo destructiveness — it's all diverting eye candy.
The talking animal friends and the witches and the armored bears are all fun, but they're incidental to the central idea, which is about the destructiveness of the Christian Church.
Yet in Ms. Waller-Bridge's rendering, an ugly, unprintable two-word exclamation somehow encompasses self-destructiveness, self-assertiveness, self-consciousness — and the unconditional thrill and muddle of simply being alive.
Blumel noted on Twitter Tuesday morning that the violence was still significantly smaller in scale and destructiveness than what was seen in October and November last year, when protests began.
Blumel noted on Twitter Tuesday morning that the violence was still significantly smaller in scale and destructiveness than what was seen in October and November last year, when protests began.
One of the most distressing elements of Phoenix's portrayal of "Joker" is that even as the character's apparent psychopathy and destructiveness amplify, he forces the audience to empathize with him.
Ms. Lathan is especially strong as the professional whose self-destructiveness carries over into her personal life (a device that recalls British crime dramas like "Prime Suspect" and "Happy Valley").
Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne) is at a party for her 36th birthday, downing booze, sucking down a joint laced with a certain something and contemplating her self-destructiveness and mortality.
Then, like many other members of his generation, he grew disillusioned with what he saw as dogma and destructiveness and found there was greater power in America's tradition of liberal reform.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were roughly equal in destructiveness — but fuel for the Nagasaki bomb weighed just 274 pounds — one-tenth the weight of the fuel for the Hiroshima bomb.
In wetter areas, a warmer atmosphere retains more moisture and strengthens downpours, while higher sea levels increase storm surge and warmer ocean waters can contribute to the overall destructiveness of storms.
It is an aim that folds so neatly and catastrophically into the desire to promote truth and speech at all costs that it is hard not to marvel at its covalent destructiveness.
If you have read anything about young people in recent years, you could be forgiven for believing that we are living through a cultural revolution, unprecedented in its destructiveness and self-regard.
Gabriel Vecchi, a climate scientist at Princeton University, noted that a rising sea level adds to the destructiveness of storm surges, and a warming atmosphere holds more moisture, leading to more rain.
As such, the problem will remain poorly understood if it is accounted for only in terms of how and what it kills, the scale of its destructiveness or any other quantitative measure.
Money in particular is no hero; between his idiotically literal nickname, his childish destructiveness, and his habit of referring to Rocky as "my bitch," he's a horror movie comeuppance story waiting to happen.
The only other role on Mr. Cumberbatch's bucket list, he has said, was Hamlet — a character who shares Patrick's brilliance, arrogance, wit, cruelty, self-destructiveness and, in his reading, not dissimilar daddy issues.
I want to tell the truths of the Cultural Revolution as someone who lived through the madness and chaos, to warn people of the spectacular destructiveness, so that we can avoid ever repeating it.
To Herzog's credit, his framing of both volcano mythology and science as the same human desire to understand and explain the destructiveness of the natural world is one of the movie's most effective devices.
It is also central to at least two active lawsuits brought by former players who accuse N.F.L. teams of, among other things, not warning them about the destructiveness of the painkillers they were given.
"The real destructiveness of this is signaling to the region that the oldest American ally can potentially be snared or lured into nonaligned status," Jeffrey A. Bader, a former China adviser to Mr. Obama, said.
Magda, the suicidal girlfriend played with feverish intensity by Lea Draeger, has much more of an affinity for David, although her character is somewhat crudely drawn as a hysterical bundle of self-destructiveness and sex.
The Cairo scholar al-Jabarti admired the great learning of the French, but he also described the destructiveness of Napoleon's army in Cairo: they demolished tombs, shrines, and palaces, and damaged the great al-Azhar mosque.
As president, Trump has not only kept up tweeting, he's done so with a new level of venom and destructiveness, amplified beyond measure by the fact that he's now the most powerful man in the world.
We need to consider them in our national dialogue on climate change if we hope to proactively address the increasing intensity of wildfires in the West and the destructiveness of flooding and hurricanes across the country.
It also shows his yearbook caption, "Après moi, le déluge," ("after me, the flood"), a statement that, in real life, was retrospectively imbued with meaning about Cunanan's self-destructiveness by a media and public hungry for narratives.
A Category 3 hurricane at landfall is considered a major storm; Hurricane Ike, for all its destructiveness, missed that mark, and Sandy was not considered a hurricane by the time it struck but instead an extratropical storm.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1-to-10 scale.
There had been intimations, from President Trump, among others, that it would fix some of the destructiveness of the House bill, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated would cause twenty-three million Americans to lose their insurance coverage.
This complaint is so trivial as to be laughable; the fees are microscopic compared with the outrageous costs and destructiveness of renewable power, even if we agree for discussion purposes that they are "excessive" in some metaphysical sense.
The novel examines the dangers of utopian fanaticism, as well as the destructiveness of an out-of-touch government that imagines a threat to its existence where there isn't one — a deadly misunderstanding between rulers and the ruled.
He seem to have been tempted to push this "machine" motif further than necessary a few years later with his oily, muddy, and overworked "Untitled" (22019), perhaps expressing his conceptual reaction to machinery in terms of creative destructiveness.
When Hayes identifies insecurity or vulnerability as part of what motivates President Trump, this fails to acknowledge the greater danger he poses because his destructiveness comes from a very intact self rather than from one that is broken.
Given his staggering self-destructiveness over his 42 years — he has been a junkie, an alcoholic, a bulimic and an attention addict (admittedly, that one hasn't exactly been stamped out) — it's quite the feat that he's still here.
"The world, literally the world, is counting on all of you, counting on California to reject Trump's deception and destructiveness," Newsom said, according to the AP.  The convention comes as the Trump White House faces a series of controversies.
And what the Writers meme shows is that life in American culture is now so alienating that for many critics of Trump, his destructiveness would hurt differently if he at least found a way to be highbrow about it.
"The patent, titled "Method Of And Apparatus For Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vessels or Vehicles" also details Tesla's predictions on drone warfare, where he states that it will bring about peace among nations due to its "certain and unlimited destructiveness.
This unambiguously intolerable outcome could be produced either in unexpected increments of escalation by either or both of the dominant national players, or instead, by any sudden quantum leap in applied destructiveness undertaken by the United States and/or North Korea.
Readers of books on China have over the years been presented with a mounting body of material about the cruelty and destructiveness of the Communist revolution, from the takeover of power in 1949 to the military crackdown against the Tiananmen protesters in 1989.
He's also a bulwark against all the destructiveness Trump has embraced: ethno-nationalist bigotry, the growing authoritarianism of Putin and Xi Jinping, the erosion of the rule of law, trade wars, the militarization of foreign policy and the undercutting of the European Union.
Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) may be the one marrying, but this film is mostly about her younger sister, Kym (Anne Hathaway, in an Oscar-nominated performance), "a bottomless repository of guilt, destructiveness and general bad feeling," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
"Love" is hardly the first revisionist rom-com to hit TV. Hulu's "The Mindy Project" embraces movie myths while dismantling them, FXX's "You're the Worst" explores the chemistry of self-destructiveness, Amazon's "Catastrophe" is a variation on the gimlet-eyed raunch of Mr. Apatow's movies.
Whether it's the exceptional destructiveness of uranium mining, the fact that there's no good way to store nuclear waste or the lingering risk of a tragedy like Fukushima or Chernobyl in the U.S., the truth is: nuclear power is a cure worse than the disease.
Presently, with virtually every aspect of our lives and daily business becoming connected and dependent on software in one way or another, the potential destructiveness of software bugs has become orders of magnitude more dramatic than it used to be, say, 20 years ago.
Freedman — an emeritus professor at King's College London, one of Britain's pre-eminent strategic thinkers and a former member of its official Iraq war inquiry — argues that the prognosticators often expect to limit the destructiveness of the next war through a surprise knockout blow.
Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) may be the one getting married, but this film is mostly about her younger sister, Kym (Anne Hathaway, in an Oscar-nominated performance), "a bottomless repository of guilt, destructiveness and general bad feeling," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
"I don't think we ever got a hold of — because I don't think we ever imagined the extent to which the systems of this planet would be shared and become one big cybergrid — the sort of destructiveness of the hacker side, of hacker activity," he said.
Among them were statements of an interest in committing suicide or in destructiveness toward the world at large, recent acquisition of weapons, direct or indirect communications of threats and withdrawal from life pattern and attempts to establish a legacy by providing a rationale for a violent attack.
A faint cloud of pathos befogs Ray when he leaves his chair to shimmy to the beats of Coltrane, Davis, Armstrong and the Charleses Parker and Mingus (Matt Hubbs did the excellent sound design), or speaks almost longingly of the lethal self-destructiveness of many of his idols.
Gabriel Vecchi, a climate scientist at Princeton University, noted that while many scientists are wary of drawing firm links between any particular storm and climate change, a rising sea level adds to the destructiveness of storm surges, and a warming atmosphere holds more moisture, leading to more rain.
Crosscutting mostly found footage to the sound of Kanye West's gospel-based "Ultralight Beam," the piece formed a seven-minute exegesis on black life in America: the trauma of police violence; the support of black collectivity; the destructiveness of poverty and oppression and the sustaining strength of black culture, especially music.
This subset of perfectionists, so-called "extreme perfectionists," are highly self-invested and some have the superficial charm that is a hallmark of antisocial personality disorder, according to a paper titled "Deep, Dark and Dysfunctional: The Destructiveness of Interpersonal Perfectionism," by authors Gordon Flett, Paul L. Hewitt, and Simon S. Sherry.
And so the utter environmental destructiveness of the subsidy programs is irrelevant: The proponents of the wind production tax credit and the solar investment tax credit and the guaranteed market share for ethanol and all the rest — and their representatives in Congress — cannot and will not back away from the subsidy trough.
It's also hard not to reflect on the relationship between these two movie-industry legends as a case study — upsized for Hollywood, sensationalized accordingly and on display to the entire world — of the currents between almost every parent and child: the pride and the shame; the protectiveness and the destructiveness; the gratitude and the resentment.
Regret, because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse, regret because of the coarseness of our leadership, regret for the compromise of our moral authority, and by our -- all of our -- complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs.
Scientists have long theorized that climate change has contributed to the longer fire seasons, the growing number and destructiveness of fires and the increasing area of land consumed, though some experts suggest that the current fire phenomenon is not just a result of a changing climate, but also fire-suppressing policies practiced by the government for the last century or more.
Sam and Dean Winchester are undoubtedly two of the most tortured heroes on TV, but while Sam (Jared Padalecki) proudly wears his emotions on his sleeve, older brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) is the embodiment of that '80s action hero archetype, oozing masculinity with his muscle car and shoot-first mentality, and stoically repressing his emotions until they inevitably explode in bursts of violence or self-destructiveness.
Though often compared unfavorably with Waugh's great " Sword of Honour " trilogy, Powell's three wartime volumes are among his best, showing us not just the random destructiveness of the Blitz but also a side of military life we seldom hear about, one of bureaucracy and paper-pushing, backstabbing and angling for preferment—like working for a corporation, only more boring and with bosses who are more inept.
Three years ago, during a presidential race in which Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, was pledging to "bring back waterboarding and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding," I felt I needed to share what I knew about the destructiveness of torture, and about the struggle many of us had waged to stop the abuse of prisoners in American custody after the Sept.
" (As per a Gawker report, Cruz was holding this event at a bar "owned by an astoundingly racist radio host," so take the handwringing about Trump's destructiveness and vulgarity for what it's worth.)  He then broke out a line you are going to hear a lot more of in the coming days:  "After tonight, we have seen that our campaign is the only campaign that has beaten, that can beat, and that will beat Donald Trump.
Indeed, various researchers over the last half-century have admitted to being surprised by the ineffectiveness or destructiveness of rewards when money was offered to adults for succeeding at a tricky task, when movie tickets or praise was offered to children for tasting an unfamiliar beverage (the kids liked the beverage less than those who received neither a tangible nor a verbal reward), when merit pay failed to improve teachers' performance, and when incentives didn't increase seatbelt use or help people lose weight and keep it off.

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