| 单词 | soul-destroying |
| 例句 | He was willing to exchange soul-destroying suspicion for heartbreaking reality. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In “Motel Seedy” he expressed the soul-destroying décor of a cheap hotel room: Thomas Lux, Poet Who Wrote of Life’s Absurdities, Dies at 70 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “It’s a grotesque, soul-destroying environment to live in,” he writes. Review | In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z He’s not at a soul-destroying height of emotion. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear Approach ‘Othello’ 2013-09-12T16:21:07Z Obviously the soul-destroying segment about host Fearne Cotton learning to rap is best forgotten about – but there's still a lot of promise. Must Be The Music: the anti-X Factor we've been waiting for? 2010-08-13T14:00:00Z But when all is said and done, this is a far more genuine and rewarding experience than some of the soul-destroying travesties of core operatic repertoire you sometimes encounter elsewhere. Madam Butterfly ? review 2011-02-25T19:16:56Z That old-world of Havana is in fact the grotesque indictment of the dreadful mismanagement of Cuba, it is a vivid example of the grinding poverty and soul-destroying hopelessness of life under a Communist dictatorship. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Like Noah Cross, these characters, given the right time and place, are capable of anything, and their progression down the slippery slope to soul-destroying compromise is a fascinating journey. 'Dirty' takes on the slippery slope of compromise 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z "Yeah, it was soul-destroying," she says of that period. The gospel according to Diane Birch 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z The non-stop rain of soul-destroying remarks had their effect and John would later give an insight into his poor mental health, recalling his depression and thoughts of suicide. The untold story behind "Strawberry Fields Forever" 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The rest of it can be quite soul-destroying. Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs' 2013-03-24T00:06:37Z When Protasov envisions a distant future in which poverty and sickness are eradicated, Liza enquires: "But at what daily, hourly, soul-destroying, inhuman, crushing cost?" Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-17T13:13:58Z Police work is represented at its most realistic – often inspiring, mostly soul-destroying – while lofty ideals in any field are soon grounded in the petty grudges and vitriol that shroud them. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z “The prospect of putting it out and have it just disappearing down a rabbit hole, which seems to happen to so many albums now — that would be soul-destroying.” U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The most soul-destroying moment came when I found the affairs website. ‘He collapsed at the roadside. I thought he was dead’: couples on surviving trauma 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z “It can be difficult to talk about making music with people because they conflate ‘making music’ with ‘popular success’ and image and brand and all these other frightening, soul-destroying late-stage-capitalist concerns,” she said. Leslie Winer’s Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z In my 40s, the hangovers lasted for days, and they were debilitating and soul-destroying. At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z Where "Sgt. Pepper" had been brimming with pomp and Technicolor, The White Album was alive with awe-inspiring grace and soul-destroying darkness. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Patient and psychiatrist marry, she forces him to abandon his clinic, and once outside, in the swinging Charleston-hopping, big-bad world, they give into soul-destroying excesses. With Fitzgerald adaptation 'Up & Down,' Eifman succeeds on his own, melodramatic terms 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Signings after events where you've been flying solo may be slightly less soul-destroying. Making my mark at book signings 2011-01-18T09:00:04Z The summaries of the fictional works created under his tutelage leave little doubt about the soul-destroying difficulty of his job. A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z He is the only young man left when the Indian army move in, and assign to him the lucrative but soul-destroying task of collecting weapons and valuables from the bodies of the fighters killed nearby. Debut fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-02-20T00:12:01Z Burton's translation is enjoyable, mock-archaicisms and all, though I find his attempts to imitate Arabic prose-rhymes annoying, and also cloying, though admittedly not soul-destroying. What are you reading today? 2012-09-25T14:35:30Z A creative experience, enlivening, but also harrowing, soul-destroying. Tom Rosenthal: 'I'm quite sort of talented' 2011-08-14T20:45:00Z “Machinal” is an expressionist drama that pictures marriage as so profoundly soul-destroying that a woman’s only recourse is to brain her husband. Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector: Together, Onstage and Off 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z On the 40th anniversary of her arrival on the soap in 2012, the actress spoke about her fondness for her co-stars but also the "punishing" and "soul-destroying" filming schedule. Anne Kirkbride: A life of drama 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Political exploitation, soul-destroying toil and unsanitary degradation never get a look-in. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z Most desk jobs are perfectly soul-destroying enough without the prospect of having to stare up a co-worker's bumhole each time they bend down to pick up a paperclip. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: The Naked Office 2010-05-14T23:37:00Z It might not be the soul-destroying Children of Earth but Torchwood: Miracle Day is still better than many other programmes. Torchwood: Miracle Day - critical view from the US 2011-07-11T11:25:14Z He is terrific on the “assisted living” décor at some hotels, the mustards and browns and soul-destroying drapery. Review: In ‘Hotels of North America,’ Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z She added: "It's soul-destroying because as a family you feel like your kid's world doesn't matter." Plymouth: SEND parents protest over 'soul-destroying battles' for support 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z An addict who has used monkey dust for five years has described taking the drug as "soul-destroying". Monkey dust like 'dancing with the devil' 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Ms Wilson said the boycott comes at the end of "a rather soul-destroying and quite frankly lacklustre four years at university", disrupted by industrial action as well as online learning during the pandemic. Marking boycott impact downplayed by universities, union claims 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z "As a business owner it's soul-destroying," she said. Cost of living: Businesses fear quiet Easter bank holiday 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z John Davies Cale was born in a rural Wales village where his father worked in the mines, “a soul-destroying job,” Cale has said. John Cale at 80, on collaborations old (Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, David Bowie) and new 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Joshua and his team may feel Whyte is too much of a risk to fight immediately after the soul-destroying loss to Usyk in August. Heavyweight fights that could happen in 2023 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Speaking earlier this year on the third anniversary of her disappearance, Mrs Croucher said there were now "even more unanswered questions as we've had a lot longer to think... it's soul-destroying". Leah Croucher: The quiet teenager who vanished on her way to work 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Should win: “Severance” captures the zeitgeist of worker discontent, but let’s consider “Squid Game” and its take on soul-destroying poverty. AP Emmy pundits call a win for ‘Succession,’ split on comedy 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z "It is the most soul-destroying thing because you feel guilt as a parent you can't give your child that security of a home. It is hard." Caught up in Cornwall's worsening housing crisis 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z "Make fun of alopecia all you want but until you've experienced it, it's soul-destroying and life changing." Will Smith: Chris Rock Oscars alopecia jibe 'distasteful' 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z "That is the potential of somebody's life waiting in the balance - and you can't get there. It's absolutely soul-destroying. We wouldn't treat animals this way, why are we treating humans?" Welsh Ambulance: Paramedics say job is soul destroying 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z "Some of the criticism has been soul-destroying, but we are not going to give up." Ukraine war: UK Home Office is in crisis mode over visas 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z But this did not save any of the defenders in Sarajevo from the poison of violence, the soul-destroying force that is war. War is the greatest evil: Russia was baited into this crime — but that's no excuse 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Her parents said it was "soul-destroying" not knowing what happened, and people setting up fake accounts claiming to be Leah was "vile". Leah Croucher: Parents talk of trolling three years after disappearance 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Some of it is really wonderful and liberating, and some of it is very discouraging, frankly, and soul-destroying. Daniel Dae Kim doesn’t want to be 'the diversity police.' But speaking up is personal 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Vicki Wilkes, owner of live entertainment venue Red by Night in the west Midlands, told the BBC her business was falling apart, adding that the situation was "soul-destroying". Covid: Care homes 'reliving' lockdown and businesses call for help 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z "Gareth continues to treat me as his property and this is soul-destroying for myself as I have had no life since I met him." CPS 'sorry' for incorrect charge after woman attacked 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z She said "it's not just the residents suffering" and it could be "soul-destroying" for relatives and loved ones. Covid: Law reform calls for 'vital' care home visits 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z She said there were now "even more unanswered questions as we've had a lot longer to think... it's soul-destroying". Leah Croucher: Parents talk of trolling three years after disappearance 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Ms Storey said it had been "shocking and soul-destroying to see". Linthorpe Lidl tree felling prompts petition against supermarket 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Mr Devine said the situation is "soul-destroying" and "heartbreaking for the whole family". Carer shortage leaves Greysteel woman 'stuck in hospital' 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z "In one sense it was great but playing in the ground with no fans was soul-destroying," says Heller. Wimbledon's storied Plough Lane past & the new chapter being written 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z "I was so worn down after 18 months - it was soul-destroying to be honest - but it was for the principle; his assessment defied belief." Seven out of ten win benefits challenges at tribunal 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z "You can't constantly live in hope and have it dashed, it's absolutely soul-destroying," she said. Claudia Lawrence's mum says she has 'no hope' for new leads 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Whichever way you lean, Arsenal’s last two performances, in miserable defeat to Liverpool and soul-destroying draw with Slavia, mean he arrives as this match under pressure. Sheffield United v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z “I’m so sorry they had to go through this because I know how soul-destroying it is,” Ms. Higgins said of the women’s coming forward. She Made a ‘Soul-Destroying’ Rape Claim. Then 3 Others Came Forward. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z "In 2018, the fire was soul-destroying but we took all that emotion and put it into the repairs," he added. Roaches moor fire recovery could take half a century 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z "Anger, soul-destroying, disheartening, disillusioned": everything about the latest lockdown fills pub and brewery boss Jonathan Neame with dismay. 'We will have to throw our beer down the drain' 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z The British star referred to the loss of a child as “the loneliest, most soul-destroying period of time.” Kate Beckinsale opens up about past pregnancy loss, gives support to Chrissy Teigen 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr Wilson's wife, Elaine, said in her impact statement that her husband's death had been "soul-destroying". Pair fatally stabbed factory supervisor 100 times 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “It’s soul-destroying for the volunteers. The people that have stolen have stolen from the general public not just the foodbank.” UK coronavirus live: No 10 says possible new rules for Londoners won't involve bans on travel or leaving home 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z “It’s deadly to sit at a computer all day. It can be soul-destroying,” Nelson said. Coalition of book lovers rushes to save University of Virginia’s 4-million-card catalogue 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “Morally repellent”, “abysmal” and “soul-destroying”, “reads like it was written by a baboon”, “too pompous and too cliche-ridden”, and “a boring tome” full of “little more than commonplace cliches”. Jacob Rees-Mogg's Victorians has sold 734 copies – will publishers take note? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Not only is the megacity of Jakarta besieged by a confluence of modern ills – including pollution, overpopulation and soul-destroying traffic – it is also one of the fastest-sinking capitals in the world. Goodbye, Jakarta? Indonesia's president suggests new capital 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Some political conservatives may object to Brooks’s critique of modern capitalism as potentially soul-destroying. Opinion | David Brooks wants to weave America’s threads back together 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z She was also inspired by her and her friends' often soul-destroying experiences of renting in London. Books 2019: Which top fiction picks will you choose? 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Specifically, it’s a 1.14-mile tunnel the inventor and beleaguered CEO of Tesla Motors says is a first step in solving “soul-destroying” urban traffic. Elon Musk’s first Boring Company tunnel opens, but the roller-coaster ride has just begun 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z He first unveiled the tunnel plan earlier this year, saying he wanted to alleviate Los Angeles's "soul-destroying" traffic congestion. Elon Musk unveils LA transport tunnel 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Elon Musk has unveiled his underground transportation tunnel, allowing invited guests to take some of the first rides ever on the tech entrepreneur’s solution to “soul-destroying traffic.” The Latest: Elon Musk allows rides on underground tunnel 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The story anticipates themes Plath returned to in her only novel The Bell Jar, Churchwell continued, which explores how “trying to be the ‘right’ kind of woman was soul-destroying. Unseen Sylvia Plath short story to be published in January 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Musk’s goal in designing an underground tunnel system is to “solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic,” the Boring Company says on its website. Elon Musk says Boring Company test tunnel for high-speed travel to open in December 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z After more than 14 soul-destroying and awe-inspiring hours, I finally surrendered at the 200km mark - a distance surprising both me and my growing online following. Toughest one-day bike race in the world? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But even so, the moment he realised he was trapped was “absolutely soul-destroying”, he said. Trapped: how survivors deal with trauma of cave ordeals 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z One online flier for the event read, "Please join us to learn more about the Boring Company's vision to alleviate soul-destroying traffic through Loop, a zero-emissions, high-speed, underground public transportation system!" Elon Musk shares a trip through his Hawthorne tunnel. His project in L.A. is a bumpier ride 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z She said: "The purpose of Boring Company is to alleviate soul-destroying traffic and augment public transit." Elon Musk presents LA tunnel plan 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z How is it that Amazon has a death grip on retail when to receive a gift from Amazon is, in my fortunately limited experience of the company, a soul-destroying event? Opinion | Gift-Giving Tips From Scientists 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z With some justification, the optimists also tend to evangelise about the liberating prospect of people being freed from some of the most monotonous, soul-destroying work. Meet your new cobot: is a machine coming for your job? 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z “One of the most soul-destroying things is traffic,” Musk said at the conference. Elon Musk's tunneling company wants to dig through L.A. 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Dwell on it too long and it can be soul-destroying. 'Covering Trump's White House is like being tossed inside a washing machine' 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Why not expend its energy on blotting out the time-wasting, soul-destroying, infuriating bits of memory that you long to forget: the shameful bits of behaviour, the causes of failed relationships. So forgetting is good for you. But why does it have to be my friends’ names? | Michele Hanson 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z "To see this legislation filibustered is soul-destroying for those who really need the protection of such a bill," she said. Violence against women bill dedicated to rape victim - BBC News 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z At first I found it funny, and then I found it soul-destroying by, like, minute two. Samantha Bee goes 'Full Frontal' after long 'Daily Show' run 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z He gets the ubiquitous defacement of public surfaces, the shuttered shops and derelict street people, the soul-destroying round-the-clock noise. New York, from Punk to Trump 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Taking on the government with a fraction of its resources and trying to get a fair hearing - or any hearing - for your policies can be a frustrating, soul-destroying experience. Can Jeremy Corbyn run an effective opposition? - BBC News 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z You would think after years of repeated and soul-destroying failure in the Six Nations, those with an affection for the Scotland team would be looking at the upcoming World Cup with some trepidation. 'Scots may come in under the radar' 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Bowlers had to try things but when you are going for four runs from a defensive block it is pretty soul-destroying. Lord's Test not a draw yet - Agnew 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Another essay mocked what Mr. Sanders felt to be the soul-destroying nature of conventional education. Bernie Sanders’s Revolutionary Roots Were Nurtured in ’60s Vermont 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The play of this Swedish boy, aged 16, has been one bright spot in the wettest and most soul-destroying French tennis championships in memory. French Open 2015: day eight – as it happened 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z I felt the soul-destroying moment when I couldn’t convince my best friend to vote yes. Soul-Searching as Ireland Prepares to Vote on Same-Sex Marriage 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z He prefers to ignore that girls find him too weird to date, and that he is stuck in a soul-destroying job in an American backwater. 'The Voices': Kaleidescopically Grisly Horror in Small-Town America 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z He was unashamed about the things that other people point to as the soul-destroying reasons that they leave politics; he even seemed to like them. Aaron Schock’s Downfall in Congress 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Moyes’s indignities have been of a different kind but soul-destroying all the same. David Moyes is burdened by the stigma of his Manchester United failure 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The play of this Swedish boy, aged 16, has been one bright spot in the wettest and most soul-destroying French tennis championships in memory. French Open 2015: day eight – as it happened 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Its $2.7 billion package passed its first procedural vote yesterday — barely — and now appears likely to get mired in a soul-destroying debate over amendments. Ted Cruz now runs Congress: House border bill lunges to the right, as Tea Party senator bests Boehner 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Co-op loses out completely, and I have torn up my membership card because of the loud, soul-destroying music that they force on customers. Store Wars: Greggs and Percy Ingle 2012-08-17T10:05:01Z Then they in their turn become the parents of another generation, to whom they teach the same soul-destroying creeds. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z Suppose he thinks that by persecution he can bring a man from soul-destroying falsehood to soul-saving truth, this opinion may reflect on his intellectual debility: but that is his misfortune, not his fault. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z George did not seem to mind the soul-destroying existence and was full of financial ambition; but himself had loathed it and cared for nothing but literature. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z If you look at the world more broadly, you will see that the 20th Century was about playing soul-destroying “finite games”. Nine Books To Read Before Your Organization Dies 2011-12-22T19:30:32Z She must therefore necessarily pronounce modern civilisation, with its freedoms, a medley of soul-destroying errors, must raise the banner of coercion and forcible suppression, and accordingly condemn freedom of religious profession and of the press. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z For one thing, it is "un film de Michael Bay", the reigning deity of all that is loathsome, putrid and soul-destroying about modern-day blockbuster entertainment. Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011-08-27T23:06:10Z The adventurous spirits who had started this rank and soul-destroying heresy of hope even beyond the grave were few in number. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Lucinda saw those to whom this was adventure, those to whom it was romance, those to whom it was physical agony, and those to whom it was a source of soul-destroying ennui. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z He spoke especially against money, which he called "delusion, and dross, and worthless dust, and a soul-destroying canker." Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Not only is he the virtual director of Mrs. Besant's Society, but he has completely infected her mind with his soul-destroying teachings. H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal 2011-06-12T02:00:09.327Z Only daughters of the very poor are secured for this outwardly beautiful and attractive, but inwardly repulsive, soul-destroying life. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z They had estates, they were the recipients of pensions, but they did not submit to the soul-destroying monotony of repeating the same task endlessly through the long reaches of a twelve hour day. The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z Hannover escaped what could have been a soul-destroying drop with a decisive win on the last day of the season to finish 2 points ahead of Nurnberg. Goal: In Germany, Cherundolo's Hannover Surprises 2011-02-25T21:33:14Z The love of the things of earth had usurped, in many hearts, the love of the things of heaven, and comparatively few were free from the soul-destroying influence of idolatry. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z When he went to the battalion doctor it was with an airy request for the impotent palliatives then provided for early dysentery, and with no suggestion of the soul-destroying sickness that was upon him. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z Put to death in me the soul-destroying passions of the body. Orthodox Daily Prayers 2011-01-18T03:00:12.820Z I am to die as I have lived, surrounded by weary, soul-destroying sunshine. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z In crisis situations that paralyse others, Laxman manages to bat with a composure and elegance that must be soul-destroying for the opposition. Laxman shines brightest as India prevail 2010-10-05T15:50:00Z It must be quite a soul-destroying job being a non-impact substitute. Harry Pearson: No substitute for an impact player 2010-03-26T00:05:00Z "Of course it has a negative impact on the athletes—it's soul-destroying," said Mr. Bartelski. 2010-02-12T17:50:00Z Always protect, guard, and keep me from soul-destroying words and deeds. Orthodox Daily Prayers 2011-01-18T03:00:12.820Z Not at the man, for I certainly have no personal grievance against Captain Patterson, but at the official representative of this hideous, imbecile, soul-destroying System. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York Rise, touched with gratitude divine, Turn out His enemy and thine; That soul-destroying monster, sin; And let the heavenly Stranger in. Moody's Stories Incidents and Illustrations And it is my opinion, that thy soul-destroying usury is not regarded more favourably by the saints, than my trifle of pleasure in love and murder. Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 I gather this from his conduct in September 1681, when, with all the lords and their servants, he took the woful and soul-destroying Test, swearing it “word by word upon his knees.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) If they were denied it by the French they would take their furs to Albany, and there imbibe not only bad rum but soul-destroying heresy. The Fighting Governor A Chronicle of Frontenac This was followed by the reading of the appeal and prayer; then earnest pleading to desist from their soul-destroying traffic and sign the dealer's pledge. Introduction to the Science of Sociology As for thrift, much which passes for such at present is little different from soul-destroying parsimony. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals So these heathen systems have their grain of truth, but they are false and soul-destroying all the same. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Reader, have you perused this pamphlet; and are you still willing to drink, use, or sell this soul-destroying poison? Select Temperance Tracts The deed was so like things that she had seen him do that she almost tore her hair as she prayed to be spared such a soul-destroying fate. The Wind Before the Dawn A thing soul-destroying till the end of time. The Pools of Silence If something were visible, I should not mind it so much; but this ghastly hearing of every little sound, every rustle of a gown, every breath, yet seeing nothing, was soul-destroying. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories First in the list of crime-producing, soul-destroying evils of metropolitan life, rises the saloon, the deadly upas of the nineteenth century civilization, the black plague of moral life. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 To show how believers in universal salvation wrest the Scriptures to sustain their soul-destroying dogmas, it is needful only to cite their own utterances. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan But it is dreary and unpleasant work recounting evil conditions; constantly looking at the sores of society is a morbid and soul-destroying task. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg In this soul-destroying craft he is without a peer; he has had centuries of experience and practise, and by his skill he controls the market. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern OLD PANTALOON, lean-witted, dour and rich, After grim years of soul-destroying greed, Weds Columbine, that April-blooded witch "Too young" to know that gold was not her need. The New Morning Poems Society had begun to understand the wrong which it had done to its brothers, the proletariat, whom it had robbed of mind, and offered them instead soul-destroying, mechanical labour. The New Society And therefore, if ever ye would have blessed days, you must make it your great business to remove these nineteen mountains, and repent of these land-devouring and soul-destroying abominations. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation There is no despotism on earth so soul-destroying to the artist: it is baser and more degrading than anything known in Russia. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 The other two performed the soul-destroying task of getting the horses to follow the appointed way. The Killer It is by confounding justification with sanctification, and vice versa, that all the flagrant, soul-destroying errors concerning the so-called "higher life," "sinless perfection," etc., are promulgated and believed. The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church I saw a great deal else there than your eccentric plant and the vacancy of mind of those sons of toil, cursed, soul-destroying toil. The Brimming Cup Now, for a man to break promise and covenant with his brother, is a land-destroying, and a soul-destroying abomination. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Without him the modern world would become one vast, dreary, soul-destroying Coketown, and man would sink to the level of Gradgrind. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know When Mark brought him his supper, Hett asked him several questions about the Abbey time-table, and then said abruptly: "The ugliness of this place must be soul-destroying." The Altar Steps There is sin in keeping up strife, Dark, soul-destroying sin. False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve Against all these forms of soul-destroying error the Rev. Thomas Gowles thundered nobly, “passing,” as an admirer said, “like an evangelical cyclone, from the New Hebrides to the Aleutian Islands.” In the Wrong Paradise For a moment he remained huddled on the floor, half unconscious, and then very slowly the green, soul-destroying mist receded and he found Christine bending over him, wiping his face, with her pocket-Handkerchief. The Dark House This was followed by the reading of the appeal and prayer, and then earnest pleading to desist from their soul-destroying traffic and to sign the dealers' pledge. Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink Multitudes of people of all classes are believers in this soul-destroying doctrine. The Revelation Explained And I believe that all but local politics are unfruitful and soul-destroying. The Insurrection in Dublin It is only rarely that one has an opportunity to retaliate, but the desire for retaliation is a soul-destroying disease. In His Image A curious war this; you can be at a table d'hote dinner, a music-hall entertainment afterwards, and within half an hour be enveloped in the most uncomfortable, soul-destroying trench ever known. Bullets & Billets Through them she helps to undo the horrible, soul-destroying work of brutal civilization. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers The poems about dying boundary-riders, and lonely graves under mournful she-oaks, are the direct outcome of the poet's too close association with that soul-destroying animal. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories It is because I love this religion that I hate the slaveholding, the woman-whipping, the mind-darkening, the soul-destroying religion that exists in the southern states of America. My Bondage and My Freedom She would be swept in to the muddiest and most soul-destroying game on God's earth. The Mountebank It was then, in this despair, that Sophia looked about her for a true friend to lend her the aid she so urgently required; to rescue her from her intolerable, soul-destroying fate. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series But our passion for gain, in the present age, is so much more absorbing and soul-destroying than the passion for military glory, that we cannot expect many Catos. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health For Mary, with her intense conviction of the soul-destroying effect of heresy, no sufferings in the flesh would have seemed too severe to inflict if thereby souls might be saved. England under the Tudors I'm harmless, mean no ill, be not so shy Will ev'ry soul-destroying motion cry. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 What devilish power had taken possession of her in that brief, soul-destroying instant? Quill's Window Thou canst not devour; I have comfort through Jesus Christ, who hath taken thee captive and taken away thy strength; he hath pierced thy heart and let out all thy soul-destroying poison. The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works "They are things—or perhaps it would be less invidious to say people—who are not Catholics—who repudiate Catholicism as a deadly and soul-destroying error." The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Why, for an American not to take off his hat to Howells would be to fail in appreciation of one's self as an object of art—an unlikely, belittling, and soul-destroying sin. Letters of Franklin K. Lane I will awaken her from these soul-destroying vanities; the arrival of the coffins now was an especial providence of God. Frederick the Great and His Court Yet in the poorest corner of this soul-destroying Christendom vitality suddenly begins to germinate again. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara One such higher functioning was when I followed Larry O'Keefe and Lakla, the Handmaiden, out to what we believed soul-destroying death in a place almost as strange as this *; another was now. The Metal Monster It is on that day that the masses demonstrate what life might really mean in a sane society, with work stripped of its profit-making, soul-destroying purpose. Anarchism and Other Essays Thus it was that the poor Indians had no chance to avert their downfall; the steadily increasing tide of land-stealing settlers rolling westward, and the insidious, debasing, soul-destroying liquor were the noble redman's doom. Betty Zane |
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