There's a slightly destructive element in the family's love which Vardalos is aware of: they feed you, and they kill you.
The entire Islamic faith, which he describes as being as "diverse in its beliefs and practices as Christianity," is, he said, often wrongly identified with a single destructive element.
But it, and especially YouTube, are at least becoming an important destructive element in British politics, able as they are to cultivate that most poisonous and final of political responses: ridicule.
He tells us about how the Youtube algorithm changed the platform, cracked social bonds and narrowed creative output and allowed a dark and destructive element to degrade the Youtube community.
The destructive element is a very positive element.
In tragic biographies, perhaps, dwells a half-confirmation of the idea that to approach the mysteries, to capture the figure that will resolve the question mark of existence, a descent must take place, an immersion in what Joseph Conrad called "the destructive element".
The envy turns into a hatred that is perhaps the most destructive element of the affair.
In that case, the destructive element may have been a way to make it harder to get the systems up and running again, according to ESET.
And on Thursday in two sets, at 8 30 p.m., Mr. Eisenstadt will lead his September Trio, with Ellery Eskelin on tenor saxophone and Angelica Sanchez on piano, in a celebration of its new album, "The Destructive Element" (Clean Feed).
A number of Libyan political figures have expressed wariness that unilateral military action by the United States, like a drone strike, would fuel popular anger and add a destructive new element to Benghazi's persistent insecurity.
But a number of Libyan political figures have expressed wariness that any unilateral military action by the United States, like a drone strike, would fuel popular anger and add a destructive new element to the uncertain security situation in Benghazi, especially with the Obama administration considering military strikes against Syria.
